FP Markets
Financial Services
DatabaseAdministrator(DBA)
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“Database Administrator (DBA) at FP Markets. Skills: Database administration, AWS RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server. Administer production databases on AWS RDS. Design HA/DR architectures”
Industry & Context.
Query optimization; Performance tuning; Incident response; Root cause analysis
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years as DBA, Hands-on AWS RDS experience, Deep expertise in MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MS SQL Server, Advanced SQL, Solid understanding of replication, backups, PITR, HA/DR, Experience with database security, Schema design and migration experience, Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell, Linux fundamentals, Networking basics
Nice to Have
Aurora experience, IaC for databases, Schema migration tooling experience, NoSQL exposure, Data warehousing experience, CDC tooling experience, Observability stacks familiarity, Experience in regulated environments, AWS Database Specialty certification, Microsoft certification, Oracle certification, PostgreSQL certification
What You'll Do.
Administer production databases on AWS RDS
Design HA/DR architectures
Maintain HA/DR architectures
Tune database performance
Optimize execution plans
Optimize parameter groups
Perform capacity planning
Optimize database fleet costs
Manage schema changes
Monitor database health
Lead incident response
Implement security controls
Enforce security controls
Partner with developers
Automate routine work
Document recovery procedures
Participate in on-call rotation
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with engineering teams; Partner with developers
Full Job Description
**FP Markets Group of Companies** is a well-established multi-regulated broker, founded in Australia, offering traders access to CFD trading on Forex, Indices, Commodities, Stocks and Cryptocurrencies. We are growing and looking to recruit a Full-time **Database Administrator (DBA)** remote. We're looking for a Database Administrator to own the health, performance, and reliability of our database fleet on AWS. You'll work across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL Server — running production workloads on RDS — and partner with engineering teams on schema design, query performance, and operational excellence. **What You'll Work With:** AWS RDS / Aurora · MySQL · PostgreSQL · MS SQL Server · Terraform · Prometheus · Grafana · Python · ClickHouse **Reporting to:** Head of Security and Infrastructure **Responsibilities** : * Administer production databases on AWS RDS — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server * Design and maintain HA / DR architectures: replication, Multi-AZ, read replicas, failover, backups * Tune performance — query optimization, indexing, execution plans, parameter groups * Capacity planning, sizing, and cost optimization across the database fleet * Manage schema changes and migrations safely in production * Monitor database health with Prometheus / Grafana / CloudWatch; tune alerting * Lead incident response for database outages, performance issues, and data integrity events * Implement and enforce security controls — encryption, access management, auditing, secrets rotation * Partner with developers on data modeling, query reviews, and access patterns * Automate routine work — backups, patching, provisioning — using IaC * Document standards, runbooks, and recovery procedures * Participate in on-call rotation **Candidate profile:** * 4+ years as a DBA or database-focused engineer in production environments * Strong hands-on experience with AWS RDS (and ideally Aurora) * Deep expertise in at least two of: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server * Advanced SQL — query tun
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