We are expanding our team and seeking a Senior System Engineer with a focus on on-premises systems, user access, permissions, password management, and expertise in databases such as Postgres and MongoDB.
This role requires proficiency in networking, a background in database administration, and experience with hypervisors, storage systems, backups, and data pipelines.
Key Responsibilities:
- System Management:
- Administer user access, permissions, and password management for on-premises infrastructure.
- Database Administration:
- Manage and optimize databases, including Postgres and MongoDD.
- Perform database operations, point-in-time recovery, replication, DR setup, backups.
- Networking:
- Troubleshoot and resolve networking issues to ensure low latency connectivity.
- Data Pipelines:
- Design and implement efficient data pipelines.
- Ensure the reliability and performance of data processing and integration workflows.
- Backup and Recovery:
- Implement and manage backup strategies for on-premises systems and databases.
- Conduct regular testing of backup and recovery procedures to ensure data integrity.
- Hypervisors and Storages:
- Manage hypervisors and storage systems to support the virtualization infrastructure.
- Optimize storage solutions for performance, capacity, and scalability.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a System Engineer with a focus on on-premises systems and database administration.
- Strong knowledge of Postgres and MongoDB databases, including database operations i.e. Replication, Sharding, Backups, DR Strategy, PITR, Encryption and obfuscation.
- Proficiency in networking concepts and troubleshooting.
- Experience with hypervisors (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V etc) and underlying storage systems.
- Familiarity with backup and recovery best practices.
- Understanding of SSO, Role-based access, permissions, and password management.
- Experience with data pipelines and integration workflows.
Why Fintech Farm is a great place to be
Our culture. Common sense rather than formal policies prevail in all what we do. For example, we don’t set holiday allowance. Our offices are spread across London, Europe and our markets of presence, and you could work remotely. Just do it the way it’s efficient for you.
Share options. We envisage several rounds of investments to support our growth plans and should become a unicorn 🦄 in a few years down the road. We offer an attractive share option scheme so you will own a part of the business.
