Database Administrator Senior

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Company Name: FIS Global

Job Description

Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired :

Bachelor's Degree

Travel Percentage :

5 - 10%

Job Description

Oracle Database Administrator – 5+ yrs – Mumbai/ Delhi

Job Description Summary

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun. 

About the team 

This position is a senior Oracle, MySQL and Oracle Exadata Database Administrator (DBA) in a centralized database administration team, which provides 7x24 support in test/prod environments. The DBA is mainly responsible for maintaining highly visible production databases.

What You Will Be Doing  

• Actively manages backups along with other database administrators to ensure processes are successful and we can recover as a result.
• As primary administrator provides on call support as needed for on-call issues with database environments and provides follow up and permanent resolution for reoccurring issues.
• Assists application groups with design development that meet current and future business requirements:
  • Creates physical database objectives following established standards and processes employed by database team.
  • Enforces database standards and follows up on inconsistencies.
• Ensures issues resulting in customer outage is escalated appropriately through TSG management.
  • Follows and meets project timelines and deadlines.
• If necessary, participates in recovery of databases and assists with disaster recovery testing and documentation.
• Implements backup/recovery procedures to protect integrity of data in database environment.
• Meets commitments and provides excellent customer service at all times with internal and external clients.
  • Participates as a member of development support team on projects.
  • Participates in logical design process of strategic projects and responsible for the physical design/implementation.
  • Performs routine reviews of databases and systems to ensure acceptable levels of performance.
• Provides 24/7 support of production database environments.
• Provides maintenance of physical database:
  • Provides specific direction on infrastructure design to support applications.
• Provides status reports (written and/or verbal) that are detailed to tasks and difficulties encountered – enables managers to initiate escalation if necessary and assess areas where changes or additional support may be warranted.
• Should have sound knowledge on MySQL
• Good to have knowledge on Exadata database and Exadata storage
  • Understands and applies database concepts such as database definitions, parameters, database component placement, reorganization, access methods and security definitions.
  • Works with capacity planning, operations, application developers and other TSG teams on database performance and access issues.
• Follows up on recommendations and actively pushes for implementation as appropriate.
• Reports problem performance areas and recommendations for improvement.

What will you Bring

• Bachelors’ degree in Engineering preferably in Information Management or Computer Science.
• Minimum of 5+ Years as Oracle Database Administrator
• Good hands-on Oracle Core DBA, MYSQL DBA, Oracle Database.
• Experience with Oracle Database Architecture; Oracle Database Upgrade; Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
• Should have worked on Oracle RAC DBA; Oracle Tuning

• Optional Skills are IBM AIX; Linux Environments; Oracle Linux.
• Responsibilities include designing, installing, upgrading, patching, tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting databases with large amounts of data (Terabytes).
• Capacity planning, sql analysis, schema revisions, security administration and user account maintenance are also required tasks.
• Immediate participation in an active on call rotation required.
• Candidate must be capable of providing off hours support to avoid impacting database availability during normal business hours.

Certifications

• Good to have OCP – Oracle Certification

What we offer you 

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step!
• A competitive salary and benefits
• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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