SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
· Full time permanent role
· Minutes from major train station
· Friendly and supportive culture
Our client is a leading provider in the professional management of computing services and infrastructure who provide secure and reliable data centres for their clients’ computing infrastructure including systems management, backup, security, communications, and database administration.
This role represent a brilliant opportunity to join a fantastic Aussie based company with lots of scope for growth in your career. You will be surrounded by I.T. professional working in high end enterprise level I.T. solutions. The role will suit someone who is looking not just for a job but for a career in a company that values its employees’ contributions and looks to develop and progress staff
As the Service Desk Manager your role your duties will include:
- Responsible and Accountable for the efficient working of all Corporate DBs, interfaces and integration
- Responsible for the maintenance of Oracle/SQL DBs and any updates as required
- Provide accurate timekeeping against customer requests
- Work closely with other operations teams to deliver comprehensive solutions
- Identify and understand customer requirements
- Follow up SLA breaches with team members
- Lead weekly/fortnightly team meetings
- Improve turnaround time of incidents and problems
- Maintain up to date and comprehensive documentation of all environments
- Responsible for ensuring data integrity and security is maintained by controlling all computer databases
- Volumes and lifecycle arrangements for archiving
- Liaises with staff and vendors involved in database support to uphold standards of usage and relationships between existing data and proposed additional data
- Responsible for the implementation and automation of Integration, Interfaces and data consolidation
This position requires the following skills & knowledge:
- Minimum 5 years working in database administration
- Experience working in ITIL framework
- At least 2 major industry certification (eg: ITIL, PRINCE2, VCP, CCEA, RHEL, MCITP)
- Strong experience in troubleshooting and performance tuning environments
- Design and document database architecture. Data Modeling.
- Technical expertise in Oracle application server (10g OAS), Oracle RDBMS 10g, 11g using RAC, ASM, Grid Control and Data Guard in Unix (Linux) OS environment
- Technical expertise in MS SQL server 2005 and 2008 ( Clustering)
- Understanding storage allocation and management in a Storage Area Network (SAN) environment
- Design Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence platform
- Build database scheme, tables, procedures and permissions
- Set up data sharing and disk partitioning
- Develop database utilities and automated reporting
- Create shell scripts for task automation
- Create, test and execute data management languages
- Analyse, consolidate and tune database for optimal efficiency
- Oversee backup, clustering, mirroring, replication and failover
- Restore and recover corrupted databases
- Install and test upgrades and patches
- Implement security and encryption
- Exemplary written and verbal communication skills
- Degree or Tertiary Qualification (desirable)
