CareerPlan

Database Administrator

Radnor, PA, USFull-time$100k–$200k2026-06-07 → 2026-11-09

Core

Manage proprietary and Sybase database systems to facilitate large-scale time series databases for a research and trading development team.

Role type

Senior Database Administrator

Builds

High-performance online transaction processing (2000tps) and data warehousing (250G+ servers) solutions

Domain

Financial trading / Time series data

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SQL, Sybase/SAP ASE, Microsoft SQL Server, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, automation scripting

Preferred skills

lower-level languages, alternative data storage technologies

Responsibilities

Administer, maintain, monitor, and optimize database systems; Design and support relational database structures; Perform backup, restore, and disaster recovery; Conduct capacity planning; Monitor and tune server performance; Manage database security; Troubleshoot issues and perform root-cause analysis; Develop automation scripts; Support alternative data storage platforms.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC