DevOps Database Developer

About The Company

VLink Inc. is a global software engineering and IT staffing partner, delivering innovative solutions with the most highly vetted expert software development teams. We leverage the latest technologies and the best IT talent to drive business growth for Fortune-500, Large and SMB clients by delivering a customized, personal approach, to ensure their unique technology needs are met. Founded in 2006, VLink takes pride in our highly revered workforce whose productivity, tech agility, and expertise produce transformative customer success stories year-after-year.

Job Role: DevOps Database Developer

Requirement:

The Database Engineering team is an integral part of Platform Hosting Services within the Aladdin Engineering Group. Platform Hosting Services is responsible for the reliability, stability, and performance of the firm's financial systems, including Aladdin, ensuring their availability to our business partners and customers.  
Our team’s primary focus is to deliver resilient, scalable, and high-performing database platforms by leveraging automation, software engineering, and modern DevOps practices. 

Your role and impact

Data is the backbone of any world-class financial institution. We ensure the resiliency and integrity of that data, whilst providing instantaneous access to a large global user base and across many Institutional Clients. As database engineering specialists, our team is involved in every facet of system design, implementation, tuning, and monitoring, using a wide variety of industry-leading database technologies. We focus on developing software solutions to automate operational tasks, provide analysis and insight, and enable our platforms to scale efficiently.

To excel in our role, we combine deep database expertise with strong software engineering skills, understanding the business needs, application stack, and the interaction between database software, operating systems, and host hardware.

We are passionate about performance, automation, and innovation. From the top of the firm down, we embrace the diversity of values, identities, and ideas brought forth by our employees and offer phenomenal flexibility to enhance work-life balance.

Your responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain automation tools and frameworks for database provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Build APIs and self-service platforms to empower internal teams to manage database resources efficiently.
- Engineer solutions for database configuration management, schema migrations, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and analytics systems to ensure database reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with operational DBAs to identify manual processes and automate them using code.
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, developing tools to prevent recurrence.
- Contribute to the adoption of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices within the database team.

You have…

- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java, with experience building production-grade automation or tooling.
- Experience with database platforms such as Apache Cassandra, CosmosDB, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP Sybase ASE, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and data warehouse platforms like SAP Sybase IQ, Greenplum, and Snowflake.
- Familiarity with data replication offerings like Sybase Rep, MSSQL HA, HVR (FiveTran).
- Experience with public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and their database offerings.
- Knowledge of source control systems (GIT, Azure DevOps) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with automation tools like Ansible/AWX and operating systems like Linux and Windows.
- Experience developing monitoring, alerting, or analytics solutions for infrastructure or databases.
- A passion for automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a drive to innovate.
- A belief in data-driven analysis and problem solving, and the drive to scale technology to the needs of tomorrow.