Oracle DBA (1487)

Oracle DBA

For our client in the financial industry we are looking for an Oracle DBA (1487)

The role holder will be a senior member of the global database team supporting database products/platforms. The main responsibility of this person will involve:

- Provide level 3 specialist support for the Oracle environment in Switzerland and globally
- Work in a local and global team of Database Administrators
- Work closely together with other Distributed Systems teams (eg. Unix, Storage etc.) and business streams as required
- Undertake scheduled on-call service

Requirements:
You, as the ideal candidate will be a flexible, open-minded, team worker, with a friendly and pleasant personality. You must be self-driven, be able to work under pressure (deadlines) and be willing to work outside normal business hours (weekends). Furthermore you will also bring the following knowledge and experience:

- Solid work experience as a senior Oracle specialist, up to and including Oracle version 11g
- Minimum of 5 years overall work with Oracle, 3 of which were in a production support environment
- Minimum 1 years working with a large Financial Organisation (Retail and Investment banking)
- Absolute confidence in obtaining and providing sound advise for customers and colleagues
- Very strong inter-personal and communication skills and used to be dealing in a demanding client facing role
- Ability to manage, prioritize and solve problems quickly and completely
- Proficiency with Oracle DBA tasks as well as with SQL commands to a high level
- In-depth understanding of UNIX (predominantly Solaris SPARC v10) and Linux

(RHELv5) - Strong skills in Performance Tuning (Instance-Tuning & Recommandation in SQL-Statement Optimization)
- Strong skills in RMAN (Recovery Manager), SQL*Backtrack, OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager), DataGuard, RAC and optionally GoldenGate
- Strong operations knowledge and Service Delivery experience