Senior Database Administrator

Job Purpose:

Under the supervision of the Manager Database Administration, manage and provide support for the banks Oracle databases. As a member of the database administration group, the incumbent will assist in the team effort to maximize the availability, security, and performance of the databases.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide on-site database and system support
• Monitor, collect statistical information, and provide reporting on capacity and system performance
• Based on statistics, make recommendations to maintain and improve capacity and system performance
• Monitor the system, and act upon system and application automated alerts
• Perform diagnostics, testing, and troubleshooting of software, o/s, and database issues (ex. correcting installation, configuration, or data problems)
• Plan and perform software and database installation, configuration, upgrade and patching
• Perform and manage system and database backups
• Perform manual switch to redundant system / database components, in case of system failure
• Willingness to work flexible hours, outside of regular business hours, nights, weekends.

Functional Competencies:

1. Oracle DBA 11g, 12c (5+ years experience with production database creation, upgrade and administration - NOT application )

2. Oracle 11g 12c on Windows (5+ years experience with setup, configuration, support)

3. Oracle RAC+ASM (5+ years experience with setup, configuration, support)

4. Oracle ODBC, JDBC, Heterogeneous Connectivity (5+ set-up environment, configure, and support)

5. Oracle Data Guard (5+years experience) 6. Performance tuning (5+ years experience) 7. Golden Gate 8. Oracle Exadata.

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