Position: Oracle Database Administrator
Company: Luxoft
Category: SQL
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Project Description:
• This team provides 24x7 operational support to all business areas globally in production, development, DR & QA infrastructure. Team support 3 platforms - Oracle, Sybase & MSsql. Primary responsibility of the team is to provide support to all standardized & predefined scope of infrastructure in all area taking into account business requirements, priorities, risks, synergies and technical / regulatory constraints - event/fault monitoring and remediation, incident & problem management, user requests management, change & vulnerability management, all database administration tasks, escalating cases with vendor, participate in testing & on-boarding new production/services.
• This team is also responsible for planning, supporting and executing global and regional infrastructure projects. All the services have defined SLA and deliverables are measured against predefined KPIs. Team work as integral part of global DBServices team, collaborate & work hand-in-hand with regional DBAs around the globe as well internal engineering. The team works closely with other infrastructure teams such as Wintel, Unix, Network and Storage.
Responsibilities:
• Database Admin support for entire spectrum of Database Service Administration Delivery tasks including database fault monitoring, user and service requests, user raised incidents & complains.
• Attend incidents for troubleshooting & resolution, monitor and analyze performance issues. Support and problem management tasks.
• Compliance with operational / change management guidelines
• Support and coordinate global database infrastructure events, change management process, implement tasks related to database support during all planned activities related to database maintenance, DC activities.
• Coverage provided is 24x7 so shift work required including weekend.
• Cross training to support other RDBMS areas like Sybase & Mssql.
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Experienced DBA worked for financial institutes supporting complex infrastructure setup and willing to work in 24x7 shift rotation including weekend for optimal support. Eager to learn new technologies and truly become cross platform DBA, able to prioritize & solve problems quickly. Ability to work under pressure and effectively multitask.
• At least 3 to 5 years of experience managing Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g & 12c hosted on Solaris and Linux OS, OEM Infrastructure server estate comprising of over 500+ servers. Worked extensively on DBA activities like database lifecycle management, creation, upgrade, migration, patching, refresh/cloning, backup & recovery, alert monitoring, space & user management, resolving performance issues, database corruption, clustering technology.
• Experience in high availability and disaster recovery solutions like Standby and Data Guard technology, RAC/ASM, Grid Control Management, Golden Gate replication.
• Familiar with UNIX platform system administration, knows Shell scripting/automation tools, exposure to Mssql and/or PostGress database administration tasks.
• Experienced supporting large infrastructure for incident/change management, strong collation skills and equally capable of managing shift alone. Good knowledge of ITIL concept, process and used ITIL oriented operational tools.
• Able to support 9 hour shift with in 24x7 rotational basis. Shift is 5 work days a week including weekend and public holidays.