ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets
Why join the ASX?
When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.
In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.
Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.
www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work
We are more than a securities exchange!
The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.
We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.
We’re proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion (recently achieving AWEI Bronze), inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing. We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia.
Your Team:
The Hosting Database team is part of Technology Infrastructure, within ASX Technology. We are responsible for the administration of business-critical database servers across ASX and for providing project assistance for upgrades and new deployments. Most of these systems run on SQL Server and Oracle Database today. We are building our capability for AWS databases and supporting project deployments.
Your responsibilities:
Deploy, maintain and support AWS Aurora/RDS instances, running PostgreSQL and other database engines
Recommend best practices and approaches for administration of AWS RDS/Aurora
Monitor and optimise the performance of database instances
Resolve database incidents and requests
Create and maintain documentation
Must have:
Database administration experience in a corporate environment
Strong technical skills and experience supporting PostgreSQL in AWS Aurora/RDS
Practical experience of migration from on-premises databases to AWS Aurora/RDS
Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise scale infrastructure
Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions
Nice to have:
Financial services industry experience or knowledge
Practical experience supporting SQL Server, Oracle Database or MySQL, either on-premises or in AWS
Experience with other AWS services such as DMS, Athena, CloudWatch and Lambda functions
Any experience with Terraform or broader AWS components such as IAM would be a bonus
Working knowledge of Windows Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AWS, Microsoft, Oracle or other related certifications
We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.
At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.
We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.