Senior Oracle DBA

Engineering DBA for a 6 - 12 month contract with design and architecture experience to be based in Dublin with a leading Telecoms company Project Description

Working within the Database Management Engineering Team, building a data management layer that provides access to the underlying DBMS.

Responsibilities

- Designing overall database structure, feature use, data processing workflows, etc. 
- Building high performance, scalable, systems, including assisting platform design/development around DB 
- Performance Testing and benchmarking database functionality, alongside platform functionality 
- Defining installation, upgrade and maintenance best practices from platform perspective 
- Handover to production support teams 
- Documenting implementation details

Required Candidate 

- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline 
- 5+ years' experience as a DBA 
- Proven Agile knowledge and experience 
- Proactive, thorough and enthusiastic 

Must have experience with: 

- Oracle ExaData experience highly desirable 
- Strong Oracle Enterprise DBA Experience: 
- Oracle 10g, 11g  - Full Understanding of RDBMS internal working 
- Database and Application tuning experience 
- Statistics Management 
- ASM
- RMAN

Strong general DB Experience: 

- VLDB (multi-terabyte) 
- High volume data load throughput 
- Analytical Databases 

May have experience with: 

- Other databases (RDBMS, Columnar, MySQL, etc.) 
- Unix Platform experience desirable 
- Predominately Linux, but also Solaris. 
- Experience with SAN and other Storage Appliances desirable 
- ZFS desirable 
- Atlassian life cycle tools, Jira, Confluence