Database Administrator

Database Administrator

Company:

Location: Suresnes, FR, 92150

Ingenico is the global leader in payments acceptance solutions. As the trusted technology partner for merchants, banks, acquirers, ISVs, payment aggregators, and fintech customers, our world-class terminals, solutions, and services enable the global ecosystem of payments acceptance. With 40 years of experience, innovation is integral to Ingenico’s approach and culture, inspiring our large and diverse community of experts who anticipate and help shape the evolution of commerce worldwide. At Ingenico, trust and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do.

At Ingenico, we operate at the heart of commerce transformation, whether by providing physical terminals or software to enhance the experience for both merchants and customers. Our primary goal is to evolve Ingenico from a simple hardware provider to an all-in-one provider of software and services. Our offering, available everywhere through a dedicated cloud platform, is continually expanding and adapting to the evolving landscape of payment and commerce practices.

Mission

As Database Administrator and reporting to the Head of Infrastructure in France, you will join a large team dedicated to the design and development of the Ingenico Cloud Platform. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining highly resilient infrastructure and database solutions that underpin real-time financial transactions with high data integrity requirements, requiring near-zero downtime, seamless scalability, and comprehensive security controls to protect sensitive information and ensure compliance. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring global redundancy, data consistency, low replication lag, and latency management, as well as orchestrating failovers and disaster recovery across geographically dispersed locations. You will be well-versed in various strategies to address these complexities, such as distributed database architectures, advanced replication and synchronization techniques, data partitioning, and consistency models that meet the demands of high-availability financial systems. You will also support research and development efforts, bridging the gap between infrastructure and development, offering strategic insights into database optimization, performance tuning, and troubleshooting while collaborating closely with R&D teams and Architects.

Responsibilities:

Within the infrastructure team:

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and resilient database infrastructure to meet the needs of mission-critical financial applications.
• Collaborate on multi-region database deployments, ensuring robust disaster recovery, high availability, and minimal replication lag.
• Monitor database health and performance metrics, identifying and resolving bottlenecks, replication issues, and other system anomalies.
• Manage and automate regular maintenance tasks, including backups, indexing, patching, and upgrades, while minimizing disruption to operations.
• Develop and test disaster recovery and failover strategies, ensuring minimal data loss and downtime across regions in the event of failures.

With the R&D and Architects:

• Partner with R&D teams to optimize database query performance, improving response times and reducing latency across applications.
• Act as a technical advisor on database design best practices, ensuring new architectures align with transactional, performance, and multi-region consistency requirements.
• Collaborate on designing and implementing data models, indexes, and partitioning strategies that support rapid data access and minimize latency in distributed deployments.
• Support the development of new features by proactively identifying and resolving database-related performance issues during the design and testing phases.
• Provide guidance on the impact of design and architecture choices on data consistency, availability, and durability, particularly in multi-region and distributed setups.
• Mentor and train R&D teams on best practices in data access and storage to support efficient and performant database usage across the organization.

Profile

You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and a minimum of 10 years of experience working as a Database Administrator or Engineer. Experience in sectors such as banking, healthcare, retail, or manufacturing is a plus.

• Experience with cloud technologies is required.
• Broad technical expertise is essential, including experience with cloud platforms (AWS) as well as on-premises systems like servers and storage solutions.
• Ability to work at a conceptual level as well as at a very practical and technical level.
• Experience in the development of projects from discovery to production.
• Proven experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases like ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, or DynamoDB.
• Strong knowledge of database design principles, indexing, and query optimization techniques.
• Proficiency in performance tuning, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis in high-volume transactional environments.
• Experience with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., SQL, Python, Bash) to automate database management tasks.
• Knowledge of the following products is a plus: Apache Kafka, Keycloak.

Other meaningful skills:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong leadership and team management abilities.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on quality and accuracy.

As part of our values, we embrace diversity and inclusion at Ingenico. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. Ingenico welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. We want to adapt our processes and create a safe work environment that welcomes everyone. To learn more about what it's like working inside Ingenico, follow us on LinkedIn.