Position: Senior Oracle DBA with PostgreSQL (relocation to Poland)
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Project Description:
Are you a technically skilled Oracle DBA with 5+ years of experience?
Do you enjoy a challenge and are willing to push yourself?
Do you have knowledge of migrating databases across platforms and versions?
We are looking for a motivated, experienced, and skilled Oracle DBA to assist the migration team with moving thousands of Oracle databases to a new strategic platform.

Your Team:
The Migration Factory team is tasked with moving infrastructure technology to new strategic platforms to enable numerous programs. As well as database, we support middleware, network, storage and Operating System moves. The migration team is spread across multiple regions and locations.
While joining the team, you shall be prepared for some weekend work (due to Saturdays' migrations) and potential on-call support. Planning is done in advance in alignment with the employee's availability.

Responsibilities:
What you can expect:
• Interacting with application teams to plan and execute the migrations
• Perform all technical tasks related to the move
• Building and documenting migration paths for new technologies
• Providing support to other members of the team
• Willing to work unsociable hours to meet the goals of the team (occasional Saturday's migrations shall be considered)
• Ability to work independently and set own priorities
• Database upgrades & migrations, cloning , backup, restore & recovery using RMAN
• Diagnose and resolve performance, connectivity, security and database corruption issues in a critical production environment.
• All above applicable to infrastructure which has standalone and RAC databases using file-system based or ASM based storage.
• Setup and maintain High-Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
Mandatory Skills Description:

Mandatory skills:
• You are an experienced Oracle DBA (5+ years)
• You have production support experience of Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c, 18c including RAC and Dataguard
• strong DBA knowledge of PostgreSQL and the concept of container and pluggable DBs
• You have built and supported High Availability solutions, using varied technologies
• You are an articulate speaker that is able to share your ideas and work closely with application teams
• You have prior experience in migrating databases to new platforms using multiple techniques
• Able to report on progress in a clear and timely fashion
• Familiar in Unix system administration relevant to Oracle database management

Important remark:
This role requires weekend support (ca. 2 Saturdays per month). The prod. activities can only be supported during pre-planned windows outside of business hours, hence the team participates in the shifts planning in order to cover the work. Each working Saturday will be compensated with a day off during the working week (before the closure of certain billing period). Flexibility of the candidate in terms of the weekend support is highly required for this role.

Nice-to-Have Skills:
Preferably:
• You are experienced in RAC/ASM, Grid Control Management and Golden Gate replication, High-Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
• You are proficient in Standby and Data Guard technology
• you have experience within banking industry

Languages:
English: C1 Advanced