Senior DBA Oracle

Oracle/PostgreSQL DBA

Job Overview Responsible for the 8/5 support of Oracle/PostgreSQL production database services to ensure the highest standards of availability, resilience, integrity, security and performance required by the business systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system
• Work with the team to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high availability and optimum performance
• To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
• Responsible for providing trend analysis to the service management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management
• Responsible for problem escalation to Oracle Support team and third parties as appropriate
• Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include backups, rollout and upgrades
• Responsible for implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the development team

Skills / Attributes Required

• Strong Oracle Database Administration experience (7+ years)
• Strong Linux Administration experience
• Experience of managing multiple RDBMS on large systems
• Experience of working in a team that delivers a high availability service
• Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service
• Experience of SQL Server is desirable
• Experience in Oracle RAC, Data Guard- Oracle Certification, preferably OCP
• PostgreSQL DB Administration experience is a plus along with MS SQL server