Database Administrator

Sipay is an innovative financial technology company founded in 2019, designing products and services tailored to the financial needs of both businesses and individuals. As Turkey’s most valuable fintech company, Sipay offers a financial marketplace that enables businesses to monitor and manage their entire financial landscape from a single platform, while providing unbiased access to all available financial options. This empowers companies facing the challenge of managing the present and preparing for the future to make the most informed decisions.

Offering a wide range of up-to-date, fast, easy, secure, and innovative payment solutions, Sipay also leads the industry with its customer-centric approach.

Rapidly progressing on its path to becoming a global fintech leader, Sipay was recognized in both 2023 and 2024 as Turkey’s fastest-growing electronic money and payment institution in Deloitte Technology Fast 50. In 2023, it was ranked 187th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA list, and in 2024, Sipay climbed 68 spots to reach 119th place. Additionally, Sipay earned certification in the Great Place to Work program and was also included in the Happy Place to Work® Turkey 2025 list, which recognizes the best employers each year.

We are looking for a Database Administrator for our growing Technology team!🚀

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years of production experience with at least one of SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
• Solid experience in SQL performance tuning, execution plan analysis, and index optimization.
• Strong scripting and automation experience with PowerShell, Python, or Ansible.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus or similar technologies.
• Experience working within Agile and/or DevOps-oriented teams.
• Understanding and appreciation of DataOps principles and practices.
• Familiarity with NoSQL technologies, especially Couchbase is a strong plus.
• Experience with AWS or Azure database services is a nice-to-have.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a passion for teamwork, mentorship, and solving complex problems in dynamic environments.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure high availability and reliability of database systems through daily maintenance, automated backups, and proactive performance monitoring.
• Manage and maintain relational database systems (SQL Server with AlwaysOn Availability Groups, MySQL Clusters, and/or PostgreSQL Patroni Clusters), ensuring high availability, performance tuning, and optimization in production environments.
• Automate repetitive and operational tasks using PowerShell, Python, or Ansible by applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Implement and monitor observability pipelines using tools such as SQL Sentry, PMM, Grafana and Prometheus.
• Drive capacity planning, forecasting, and storage optimization strategies.
• Support Agile product teams by contributing to continuous delivery and deployment cycles with database insights.
• Participate in incident response, post-mortem analysis, and improvement planning in collaboration with SRE/DevOps teams.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and DataOps principles and workflows.

Tech Stack:

• Databases: MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Automation: PowerShell, Ansible, Python
  IaC: Terraform
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, SQL Sentry
• Data Streaming: Debezium (nice to have)
• Cloud: AWS (nice to have)
• NoSQL: Couchbase (nice to have)

Why Join Sipay?

🚀Be part of a rapidly growing fintech ecosystem

💻 Hybrid working model

🌍 Innovative, dynamic and collaborative work environment

📈 Career development and learning opportunities

🚗Travel allowance

🍽️Food allowance

🏥Individual health insurance

🎂Birthday leave

🎁Welcome kit

👋Buddy process

💻Training with Sipay Academy

🍹Fun breaks

💳Sipay Card

🏆Advantages of Sipay

🚴 ♀️MultiSport gym card for your health and well-being

🥦 Nutritionist service in the office

☕A barista in the office

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