As a Database Engineer, you'll work in a role to diagnose and resolve performance issues with SQL. You'll encounter a variety of interesting problems and find ways to solve them rapidly and effectively. 

You should be familiar with SQL construct and Oracle performance tuning techniques to be successful for this role. Experience with database waits, performance views and reports such as ASH and AWR will be highly regarded.

Skills\:

-- The core skill needed for this role is SQL tuning. 

-- You need to be very capable with SQL, and good at finding metadata to track down a hunch or hypothesis. 

-- You should be comfortable with index access paths, joins, and response times. 

-- You will be hands-on in your approach, often modifying SQL and analysing its performance using various techniques 

-- A positive desire to learn, listen, think, test, and fix problems daily is essential to success. 

-- A solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms is helpful. 

-- Database internals knowledge are secondary, but occasionally valuable. 

When not working on SQL tuning and deeper database investigations, you may have opportunities to work on small to medium sized functionality improvements and database related projects. Every day is a little different, but every day is focused on improving SQL performance and improving the customer experience.

Education & Experience\:

A Bachelor's degree in a technical area or equivalent experience in a relevant field is required. A candidate should have at least 3 years of experience in performance tuning, database development, software engineering, or database engineering; or directly related SQL tuning experience in other roles such as QA or SRE. 

Employment\:

This role is fixed term temporary employment for 1 year. Though there is a possibility for role to turn full time permanent towards the end of term.

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