Senior DevOps Engineer (Database Specialist)

Fluent Trade Technologies is a global fintech software firm, recognized as a market leader in the eFX space. For over a decade, we’ve been delivering ultra-low-latency trading and market data solutions to the world’s largest banks, hedge funds, and non-bank institutions.

Our modular and scalable platform empowers clients to achieve faster, smarter trading decisions, improve execution certainty, and grow their market share across multiple asset classes — including eFX, eFutures, eFixed-Income, Cryptocurrencies, and eMetals.

With development centers in Europe and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture, Fluent’s mission is simple: to eliminate barriers to the most advanced trading technology and make it accessible to all market participants.

Learn more about us at www.fluenttech.net.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who specializes in database infrastructure, with deep, hands-on expertise in MySQL. In this role, you will bridge the gap between core infrastructure, automation, and database administration. You will own the entire database lifecycle—from infrastructure design, automation, and failover, to query and stored procedures optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Be a part of rapid development cycles to deliver high-quality products
• Hands-on Development of infrastructure and maintenance
• Be responsible for All databases in the organization, including development DBs, Staging DBs and Production DBs
• Cover Admin aspects like: Security, Failover/replication, Optimization etc.
• Cover Design aspects like: table structure, indexing, query / stored procedures design etc.
• Incorporate products, work procedures, best practices and architecture
• Going over specifications documents thoroughly to find special cases and scenarios
• Cooperate with dev, QA and devops teams
• Becoming the house expert on Database.
• Train developers and QA on .

Location:

• This is a full-time, on-site position in Jerusalem

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5 years experience as DBA, at least 3 of them as MySQL DBA
• Hands-on experience with DBA failover, security, optimization, backup etc.
• Hands-on experience with DB design, testing and maintenance
• Self-managed, can work as a single DBA in the organization
• Experience with a scripting language - Python, Bash. 
• Issue resolution abilities and good analysis to root cause detection
• Mandatory -- good English, both written and spoken

Advantage

• Developed in C++, specifically calling mysql from it
• Financial background: FIX protocol, FX trading, 
• Experience with Jira, SVN, Jenkins