Valor PayTech fosters a vibrant and nurturing work atmosphere that motivates employees to innovate and excel. The culture is deeply rooted in collaboration and ongoing development, offering team members abundant opportunities for professional advancement and skill improvement. Emphasizing innovation excellence and cultural expansion, the company greatly values the diversity of its workforce, believing it to be a cornerstone of its success.
Valor Paytech is seeking an experienced DB Engineer to ensure our databases remain available, secure, and stable. The Database Engineer will continuously test data integrity to guard against corruption and perform regular updates to keep pace with evolving database technologies, while supporting performance, scalability, and reliability across our environments.
Database Administration & Maintenance
Monitor the health of database servers through both automated and manual processes.
Perform environment setup and configuration, along with proactive monitoring and maintenance.
Perform database administration and maintenance, including installation, configuration, backups, upgrades, and patching.
Administer and maintain end-user accounts, permissions, and access rights.
Performance & Optimization
Recommend and implement solutions for performance monitoring and tuning.
Evaluate the performance of stored procedures, identify time- and resource-consuming areas, and provide input to application developers to address them.
Review SQL code written by application developers to ensure compliance with coding standards, best practices, and maximum performance.
Investigate and identify the root cause of software problems reported by stakeholders.
Troubleshoot database and Linux server issues by analyzing logs and using command-line utilities.
Participate in an on-call rotation providing 24x7 support,



including off-hours maintenance windows.
Data Governance & Security
Manage and ensure the integrity, security, and retention of data.
Create deployment and rollback scripts for all database objects, manually or auto-generated.
Support the development of long- and short-term requirements for database administration and design.
Work with report writers to provide the data needed for reports.
Take on full roadmap items, work with other functional teams, and deliver high-quality results on time.
Direct the organization of requirements and data into a usable database schema, including development of ad hoc queries, scripts, and updates to existing queries.
Work closely with the application development team, including query review and version control via GitLab.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline is required; equivalent experience may substitute for the education requirement.
3+ years of experience with relational databases such as MariaDB, MySQL, NoSQL, and above.
3+ years of experience with automation using shell scripting (Shell, Perl, Python, etc.).
Working understanding of technologies including MariaDB/MySQL, NoSQL, and PostgreSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.).
Working technical knowledge and experience with current Linux operating systems.
Proficient in relational databases, backup, and recovery.
Solid hands-on experience with MySQL; PostgreSQL is a plus but optional.
Experience with Aurora/RDS, ProxySQL, and Percona / PMM / Grafana.
Experience working with application development teams, including query review and GitLab.
Strong exposure to Linux resource and process monitoring, and scripting basics (shell, Python, or similar).
Database Reliability & Performance Tuning
Databases: MariaDB, MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra), Aurora/RDS
Shell, Perl, Python
Linux

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