About Us
At Raven Pack, we are at the forefront of developing the next generation of generative AI tools for the finance industry and beyond. With 20 years of experience as a leading big data analytics provider for financial services, we empower our clients—including some of the world's most successful hedge funds, banks, and asset managers—to enhance returns, reduce risk, and increase efficiency by integrating public information into their models and workflows. Building on this expertise, we are now launching a new suite of Gen AI and Saa S services, designed specifically for financial professionals.
Join a Company that is Powering the Future of Finance with AI
Raven Pack has been recognized as the Best Alternative Data Provider by Waters Technology and has been included in this year’s Top 100 Next Unicorns by Viva Technology. We're now preparing to launch Bigdata.com, a next-generation platform aimed at transforming financial decision-making.
We are looking for a Senior Cloud DBA to join Raven Pack’s Development team.
Join Raven Pack and help us manage knowledge extracted from hundreds of thousands of documents each day, all in real-time. You will load large datasets, design and maintain schemas, and help to optimize queries to help maintain our 99.99% uptime across a multi-terabyte system
As a Cloud DBA, you will be reporting directly to the Database Manager and will work with an international team of developers skilled in SQL, Python, Java, Common Lisp and Cloud technologies to ensure that all goals are accomplished in a cost-effective manner.
The ability to communicate effectively in English both in writing and verbally is a must. Knowledge of Spanish is not a business requirement. European Union’s legal working status is required.

Responsibilities
As a Cloud DBA, you will be managing vast amounts of data. Your main responsibility will be applying the best practices to ensure that the organization’s databases are operational, reliable, easily accessible, scalable and secure.
You will research, design and implement different technologies and processes to achieve that purpose. You will make the data consistent by creating data backups. You will also be troubleshooting the issues that might appear.

• Evaluating new databases technologies: Ravenpack is constantly looking for new technologies that allow us to offer a better service. Learning new database technologies and working to integrate them into our system will be one of your responsibilities.
• Administrating, configuring and analyzing queries for improvements with Postgres or Oracle
• Analyzing the challenge of loading and maintaining large datasets: from choosing the best technology and database, designing the perfect schema to work with the application level to maintain the sanity of the data.
• Helping to optimize queries.
• Creating and managing data backups.
• On-call rotation shifts will be one of your responsibilities.

Requirements

• +2 years of experience working as a Linux DBA with large amounts of data in the cloud or equivalent experience.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform will be strongly considered.
• Excellent skills as a DBA, including ETL (extract, transform and load), backup and restore.
• You must know when to apply relational OLTP (My SQL, Oracle, Postgres, etc.), OLAP (Red Shift, Presto, Snowflake) or non-relational (Mongo DB, Dynamo DB) database technologies.

Desirable

• Scripting skills in Bash, Python or similar will also be recognized for this position.
• Postgres experience administrating, configuring and analyzing queries for improvements.
• Professional experience as Linux Sys Admin.
• Demonstrable knowledge of network design and troubleshooting.
• Technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark.

What's in it for you

• International Culture: With its headquarters in Marbella, Spain, and presence in New York and London, Raven Pack takes pride in being a truly diverse global organization.
  
• Competitive Salary: In Raven Pack, we believe that your time and experience needs to be fairly rewarded.
  
• Continuous learning: We provide the support needed to grow within the team.
  
• Innovation: Innovation is the key to our success, so we encourage you to speak up and tell us about your vision.
  
• Hybrid work arrangement
  
• Shuttle bus: From Malaga, Fuengirola, La Riviera, and Estepona is available for free from the company.
  
• Diversity is in our DNA! You will work in an international environment (over 29 nationalities and 24 languages spoken!)
  

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.