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Senior DBA

To provide technical expertise for databases to ensure integrity, security, availability, and performance. Dynamically provide technical and infrastructure support to databases related to initiatives. Efficiently manage operational activities, initiatives, compliance mandates, and security guidelines on all designed activities, including installation of software, upgrades, patches, code deployment, database checklists, security initiatives, and ETL tasks related to SAP DI and related applications.

Job Type: Full TIme

Job Location: Kochi, India

Responsibilities

Database Administration (Primary: Oracle; Secondary (optional): MySQL, MongoDB, and Postgres):

  • Manage all database configuration, including installing and upgrading DBMS software servers and application tools, ensuring that version and change control procedures are observed, applying fixes, and maintaining the overall health of databases, ETL, and other related applications.
  • Manage configuration of container-based databases to maintain and optimize the resource utilization
  • Monitor database activity and ensure efficient access to data, and sufficient allocated resources. Undertakes regular exercises to optimize database performance using daily check list and pattern of effort.
  • Maintain databases in accordance with database and system security policies. Ensures compliance with the Trust Domain standard and the organization's IT security policy.
  • Ensure database services meet the RPO and RTO of the business. Plan for backup and recovery of database, planning and managing exercises to prove recovery procedures.
  • Through the problem management process, database problems are investigated, diagnosed, and resolved.
  • Optimize database performance through periodic re-org activity on the database & automate reoccurring activities with available tools. Prevent or minimize recurrence of database issues.
  • Forecast DB growth.
  • Work on storage usage optimization and cleanup activities for data older than retention policy
  • Design and Implement backup and recovery for databases
  • Implement DB failover technology
  • Estimate future DB trends for H/W usage & user load.
  • Implement the new solutions in the field as needed by the organization.

Data Management: ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) & Data consolidation/movement –Data Integrator

  • Explore the ETL solution data integrator (DI). For BI-related tasks, identify the different applications and implement integration through DI.
  • Plan, design, implement and load data across platforms and across applications, formulating a workflow to improve performance and comply with audit requirements
  • Manage the various jobs and schedules to provide business related MIS data on time and adhere to service levels accordingly
  • Manage the backup and recovery mechanism and time-to-time version upgrade of the DI server

Process & Procedure:

  • Track & document tasks, especially long tasks and project activities. Build a knowledge base of regular tasks, potential issues, etc.
  • Capture best practices, draft QMS processes, and optimize organizational effectiveness.
  • Align with supervisor to meet the objective of the organizational expectation.
  • Have regular communication with supervisors & other team members.

Skills

Working Environment:

  • On-call availability for emergency issues
  • Evening and weekend work to meet deadlines

Academic and Professional Qualifications:

Qualifications:

A first-class degree in Computer Science or a related subject plus the relevant current certifications for a qualified Database administrator.

Experience:

At least 4 years’ experience in database management and RDBMS architecture with in-depth experience in Unix admin and scripting is required for database administration, and experience using the Data Warehousing concepts in analysis and ETL technologies.

Additional skills include:

  • Team working
  • Good report writing skills
  • Good planning skills
  • Excellent Written and verbal communication skills
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Good written and spoken English

Disclaimer:

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all principal accountabilities, dimensions of the job, and person specifications. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, technological developments, or organization development).

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ?1,800,000.00 - ?2,300,000.00 per year

Schedule:

 

  • Day shift

 

Ability to commute/relocate:

 

  • Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

 

Application Question(s):

 

  • Willing to relocate to Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
  • What is your current notice period?

 

Education:

 

  • Bachelor's (Required)

 

Experience:

 

  • relevant: 4 years (Required)

 

Language:

 

  • English (Required)

 

License/Certification:

 

  • Oracle Certification (Required)

 

Willingness to travel:

 

  • 25% (Preferred)

 

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 15/07/2024

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