Database Administrator

Overview:

Connecting clients to markets and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we're a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Business Segment Overview

Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you'll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Responsibilities:

Subject matter expert for MongoDB (primarily Atlas but also OnPrem) within the team, with the ability to share knowledge and train other team members who are primarily MSSQL/Oracle DBAs
Work with dev teams across the business to identify and migrate on premise MongoDB instances to MongoDB Atlas
On call cover as a part of a rotation with other members of the team
Take proactive measures to monitor, trend, and tune MongoDB databases, to meet or exceed baseline stability and performance SLAs
Create, implement, and maintain MongoDB Health Checks/Monitoring, and have a demonstrated ability to automate MongoDB health reporting/event notification, and corrective actions.
Developing best practice standards within the DBA team and working with local and remote development teams to ensure these standards are adhered to
Working with dev teams to help designing and implement highly performant databases
When performance issues arise, determine the most effective way to increase performance including scaling up or out, server configuration changes, index/query changes, etc.
Identify code defects and enhancements and develop a detailed root cause analysis that can be leveraged by the product management and development teams to improve application availability and decrease the total cost of ownership.
Perform all database management responsibilities in MongoDB for production and non-production workloads on premise and in the cloud.
Adhere to and proactively enhance the firm's compliance with applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct in all jurisdictions in which the Firm conducts business and which have an impact on its business
Maintain a high level of conduct, ethical standards and values
Work to identify risks and enhance control across the business
Report control weaknesses, illegal, suspicious or unusual activity
Maintain an appropriate level of competence through ongoing training, making requests for updates or development as required
Ensuring the clients are treated fairly by knowing the customer and giving suitable advice where appropriate, providing an appropriate level of service, communicating clearly and fairly and ensuring complaints are reported

Qualifications:

Job Requirements:

A minimum of 2 years administering MongoDB, ideally Mongo Atlas
Experience of Mongo Atlas
Maintaining high availability of all databases
Database design, build, tuning and monitoring in a high transactional organization
Experience working in a 24/7/365 operation.
Strong educational background with a degree preferably in Computer Science or Information Systems.
Ability to work under pressure to solve production issues

Nice to have

Experience of administering other Open Source/NoSQL Databases such as Postgres, CosmosDB and MariaDB
Experience of administering MSSQL/Oracle DBs or a willingness to learn other DB technologies outside of MongoDB
Experience of working within Financial Services organization
Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM environment
MongoDB Certification
Coding skills (PowerShell, C#, Python) to automate tasks and interact with APIs
Automation and Orchestration tools (Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, TeamCity, Azure Devops, Terraform, Mongo Atlas API)