Oracle Database Administrator

Oracle Database Administrator

Gothenburg,Sweden

Contract

Skills

Oracle

OCP

Certified

DataBase

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Job Description

Oracle Database Administrator

The Position

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.

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.

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,

smart and do what is needed.

Responsibilities

•           Design, develop, implement, and maintain our core Oracle Databases.

•           Advanced understanding of database security, backup and recovery, and performance monitoring requirements

•           Ensure DB availability.

•           Proactively manage and maintain security standards and controls.

•           Actively seek to optimize and simplify our architecture.

•           Take ownership of performance and capacity monitoring aspects of the DB.

•           Assist the infrastructure team in sizing hardware used for the DB.

•           Support and collaborate with product developers.

•           Contribute to the creation and maintenance of disaster recovery plans.

•           Create a reliable backup strategy. Ensure database backups are appropriately

executed and periodic restorations are exercised to ensure backup quality.

•           Determine and document DB policies, procedures, and standards.

•           Performance testing and evaluation to ensure data security, privacy and

integrity. Identification of bottle necks and deadlock issues.

•           Ensure SLA's & operational KPI’s are met, working as necessary with internal

and external support functions when major incidents occur.

Required skills

•           Ideally Oracle Certified DB Professional (OCP) with good experience with Oracle.

•           Experience should include DB design (modelling and normalization), capacity planning, performance tuning, storage management, back-up and recovery, managing schemas,

report generation and DB clustering technologies.

•           Operating system experience in Linux.

•           Thorough understanding of database technologies (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)

•           Oracle management tools (Data Guard, RMAN, Data pump).

•           Familiar with Architecture design principles.

•           Good problem solver, focused and dedicated with ability to work on

your own as well as with a team.

•           Hands on experience with DB standards and end user applications-translating

capacity requirements into infrastructure deployment technology.

•           Strong practical experience of ORACLE in a production environment.

•           Must be a self-starter with a strong attention to detail.

•           Experience with an organization with a key reliance on 24x7 reliability on its

•           database.