Senior Database Administrator

About Us:

Propel (formerly MoneyKey) is an innovative Fintech Company that provides services and unsecured financial products to consumers via a safe and secure online platform. Propel was founded in 2011 in Toronto to remove the complexity and bureaucracy that people often experience while trying to borrow money, and to provide an underserved population with unsecured credit in a respectful way and with extraordinary service. Our goal is to provide our customers with a simple and convenient process!

Our amazing team has experienced phenomenal growth and thrives on an entrepreneurial spirit, passion, and top-tier talent. We believe in innovation and in measuring success through results and growing within; talent and hard work never goes unnoticed, and we succeed together.

About You:

You are a talented professional looking for a career, not a job. Reporting to the Senior Director, Software Development, you will be responsible for building and maintaining business-critical applications.

You picture yourself succeeding within a vibrant and entrepreneurial organization where your ideas will be heard, and where you will have an opportunity to showcase your talents and great skills. You are motivated by goals, a self-starter, and a hardworking individual who likes to wear multiple hats. We are seeking a proven, driven team player who is looking to join a fast-paced, high growth, energetic and forward-thinking team.

Responsibilities

• Continuously monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide quick responses to front-end users.
• Establishing back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility.
• Troubleshooting issues as they arise and continuously refining the database.
• Maintaining data standards and ensuring adherence with company and regulatory policies.
• Establishing needs of users and monitoring user access and security measures.
• Controlling and monitoring access permissions and privileges.
• Strong database experience including stored procedure development, index strategies, performance tuning and optimization
• Strong experience in data modeling, database design, data warehouse implementation and support
• Developing, managing, and testing back-up and recovery plans.
• Knowledge of scripting language like Perl, Python, Ruby or bash.
• GitHub experience.
• Ensuring data is stored and archived in the database appropriately.
• Managing security and disaster recovery measures to protect the integrity and confidentiality of all data.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience administering MySQL and Unix (Either Solaris/SmartOS or Linux).
• Experience setting up and maintaining MySQL Database replication.
• Familiarity with Security/PCI Compliance.
• Dynamic individual seeking a challenge.
• Thirst for learning.
• Strong work ethic.

We welcome and encourage applications from individuals from all groups, including aboriginal, women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities, regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, creed, family status, national origin, age and gender.

We thank all applications for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No agencies or phone calls.