Database Administrator

<h3><strong>The</strong><strong>Position</strong></h3><p>We are seeking a professional DBA with the technical skills and knowledge that extends across Application/ Server/ Storage/ Network technologies to administer a large, complex production DB environment and troubleshoot and provide system-level guidance/ solutions. The role also performs effective centralized database administration for multiple databases globally. This includes Oracle databases for production, testing, and staging environments across the company.</p><p>This opportunity will suit an Oracle DBA who enjoys providing technical guidance and who can play a key role in supporting and driving forward our database developments.</p><p>We are a passionate, forward-thinking, innovative company where things are always happening. We're looking for people who work quickly, are competitive self-starters, are smart, and do what is needed.</p><h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3><ul><li>Design, develop, implement and maintain our core Oracle applications.</li><li>Maintain our SQL / PLSQL processes.</li><li>Ensure DB availability.</li><li>Proactively manage and maintain security standards and controls.</li><li>Actively seek to optimize and simplify our architecture.</li><li>Take ownership of performance and capacity monitoring aspects of the DB.</li><li>Execution of data migration jobs and scripts as required.</li><li>Assist the infrastructure team in sizing the hardware used for the DB.</li><li>Support and collaborate with product developers.</li><li>Contribute to the creation and maintenance of disaster recovery plans.</li><li>Create a reliable backup strategy. Ensure database backups are appropriately executed and periodic restorations are exercised to ensure backup quality.</li><li>Determine and document DB policies, procedures, and standards.</li><li>Performance testing and evaluation to ensure data security, privacy, and integrity. Identification of bottlenecks and deadlock issues.</li><li>Ensure SLAs &amp; operational KPIs are met, working as necessary with internal</li></ul><p>and external support functions when major incidents occur.</p><h3><strong>Required</strong><strong>skills</strong></h3><ul><li>Ideally Oracle Certified DB Professional (OCP) with more than 3 years of experience with Oracle. Experience should include DB design (modeling and normalization), capacity planning, performance tuning, storage management, backup and recovery, managing schemas, report generation, and DB clustering technologies.</li><li>Operating system experience in Linux.</li><li>Oracle management tools (Data Guard, RMAN, Data pump).</li><li>Partitioning.</li><li>Architecture design principles.</li><li>Good problem solver focused and dedicated developer with the ability to work on your own as well as with a team.</li><li>Hands-on experience with DB standards and end-user applications-translating capacity requirements into infrastructure deployment technology.</li><li>Strong practical experience with ORACLE in a production RAC (ASM) environment (11gR2).</li></ul><p>Must be a self-starter with strong attention to detail.</p><p>Originally posted on <a href="https://himalayas.app">Himalayas</a></p>