Principal Database Engineer, Cloud Operations

GBU Cloud Services

Location: Budapest, Hungary

 

Detailed Description:

As a Global Business Unit Cloud Services (GBUCS) Principal Database Engineer, you will provide leadership and expertise in all phases of GBUCS database operations including deployment, maintenance, performance optimization and support functions. You will work closely with the Global Business Units in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. You will also act as a technical lead for database infrastructure related projects, working closely with GBUCS architects and leads from other technical teams to identify needs and opportunities.  You will then work with the rest of the global database team to implement these innovative ideas as production ready services.  As a senior member of the team, you will also assist in supporting global database operations by providing escalated operations expertise and mentoring junior members of the team.

 

Technical Skills/Education

• Required - 3+ years advanced deployment and support experience with Exadata platform

• 8+ years of Oracle Database Administration experience

• Broad expertise in all aspects of database technology and articulate clearly solutions to complex problems within these areas

• Extensive knowledge of Oracle database administration and its advanced concepts including clustering (Oracle RAC) and Pluggable databases

• Extensive knowledge of PL/SQL and Oracle database design

• Expert level Oracle SQL tuning skills

• Working knowledge of  ASM, RMAN, Oracle Streams, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Golden Gate

• Experience with full Oracle Red stack technologies

• System and storage administration experience a plus

• ITIL implementation / operational experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Work with a world class team to provide enterprise-wide, Oracle Database Administration support for production systems and provide DBA services to application development teams, including database design, database generation, coding, and database production support. Provide DBA support with a high degree of customer service, technical expertise, and timeliness. Provide accurate and creative solutions to user problems of moderate nature to ensure user productivity.

Provide Development and/or Production support. This includes creating primary database storage structures, designing and creating primary objects, modifying database structure as necessary for enhancements or performance, creating documentation, designing interfaces, database objects, and creating plans. Monitor and optimize performance of the database, plan for backup and recovery of the database, and allocate system storage and plan future storage needs. Create database-related scripts and programs to support development and production environments. Research, evaluate, design, test, recommend, and plan implementation of new or improved RDBMS, ETL and database tools.

Job duties are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years of experience supporting relational databases as a DBA, with multiple distributed relational DBSM*s or a depth and focus in Oracle and related tools. Exposure and practice at using the DBMS to optimize performance of large databases for enterprise use is preferred. Experience with an organization with a key 24 X 7 reliance on its database is desirable. BS or equivalent desired.