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ninjatrader · 30+ days ago
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NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage fintech company with an award-winning platform and over 1.7 million users. We are building products and services that empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets. Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, energizing and fun. Please visit www.ninjatrader.com to learn more about our business.

As NinjaTrader’s Database Administer (DBA), you will be responsible for the performance, integrity, and security of our databases, both on-prem and in a cloud environment. NinjaTrader is one of the largest retail futures platform in the world with thousands of transactions per second. This role will involve designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable database systems, ensuring that data is stored securely, organized, replicated appropriately, and accessible to users as needed. 

In this role, you will: 

  • Undertake complex database projects requiring specialized technical knowledge. Make well thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous database issues. 
  • Provide technical database expertise for maintaining performance and reliability of database solutions. 
  • Maintain the production database health and perform end-to-end DBA activities. 
  • Solve database issues and provide solutions for resolution. 
  • Collaborate with teams to integrate data across multiple systems. 
  • Develop and maintain scripts for the automation of database tasks. 
  • Implement and maintain database security and access controls. 
  • Monitor database performance and optimize the database for efficiency and scalability. 
  • Develop and implement database backup, periodical database audits, and recovery strategies. 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Support day-to-day operations and management of highly available, high throughput, enterprise-level production database instances across multiple development environments (e.g. testing, staging) and 24/7/365 production environments. 
  • Manage the backup and recovery program including performing manual and scheduled/automated backups and restores of production and non-production databases. 
  • Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and high availability strategies. 
  • Implement and manage data encryption, access controls, and auditing processes. 
  • Develop and enforce database policies, procedures, and standards. 
  • Analyze and optimize query performance, indexing strategies, and database configuration. 
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize database interactions and improve application performance. 
  • Troubleshoot and remediate incidents, sharing in on-call rotations.

Job Requirements: 

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.  
  • 5+ years of experience working as a Database Administrator, with focus on relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server. 
  • Familiarity with cloud-based database solutions (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure SQL Database, Google Cloud SQL). 
  • In-depth, practical knowledge of data management practices such as Data Replication, Backup, Database Security, Encryption, Compression and Data Masking/Redaction. 
  • Experience with large scale migration, consolidation, and implementation of data.
  • Experience with High Availability (e.g. Maximum Availability Architecture), Disaster Recovery Planning and replication strategies.  
  • Familiarity with enterprise SQL, database monitoring tools, query performance tuning. 
  • Advanced knowledge of relational database technology and ability to accurately communicate database technology to others. 
  • Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills. 
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., Oracle Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator) are a plus. 

Our Core Benefits Include:

  • 15+ days PTO per year
  • 7 paid holidays annually
  • 401k with Company Match
  • Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
  • Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader
  • And more!

 

 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Last updated on Jun 27, 2024

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