Senior DBA Developer

Experian Ltd ,
London, Greater London

Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated DBA Application Administrator, a result driven engineer as a key aide to both the DBA team and Development teams to support existing systems and responsible for administering our RDBMS Platforms in LINUX environments. · Provide Oracle/PostGres design recommendations / requirements / risk assessment for new development changes and projects · Provision product specific database software, configure it, manage service acceptance stage for new databases which are required for new development or upgrade activities · Provide UAT/PROD specific data required during implementation stage for planned application database releases · Review change requests produced by development team. Check and validate that the change is appropriate for the regional instance, add necessary pre-requisite conditions if such required. · Transactional database archiving / log shipping · Provide Oracle/PostGres related product support, investigations and guidance · Extract and provide data from UAT/PROD environments that is required for 3rd line support · Provide optimization proposals based on application DB monitoring. · Support disaster recovery (DR) when required · Provide appropriate advice, information and context regarding SLA failure. Knowledge and understanding of Oracle/PostGres - tables, views, constraints, keys, indexes, stored procedures, functions, triggers, permissions (logins, users, roles), server objects Good Oracle/PostGres database performance tuning and optimization knowledge and experience Good knowledge and experience with Oracle/PostGres database administration Contribute to the continuous improvement of our product team development process and practices Ability to troubleshoot environment-specific performance issues Ability to help isolate point of failure in deployment scripts Pays attention to detail and act as proactive team member to support project delivery Ability to work with remote and cross functional teams Excellent written and verbal communication skills Well organised with an open mind while working under pressure. Strong client focuses with excellent communication skills and a positive attitude to support multiple end-users. Takes personal responsibility and ownership by identifying problems and risks and drives to resolution. Ability to self-plan and deliver at both a strategic and tactical level on time and with quality for Clients and internal stakeholders. Highly adaptable and flexible. Able to read and adjust quickly to new situations and fast changing priorities both internally and externally. Desirable: · Knowledge of ITIL processes operated within Service Delivery Management and Service Acceptance. · Good knowledge and experience in writing and operating Oracle/Progress DML and DDL (5 years). · Practical knowledge of the following: 1. Docker-Jenkins 2. Java 3. Python 4. Linux LI-SH1 This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89895076