Sybase DBA

Senior Sybase DBA needed to join the local database support team within an investment bank in Zurich.

The main responsibilities of this role include:
- Supporting the Sybase environment in Switzerland and globally
- Working in a local and global support team of database administrators
- Working together with developers other distributed systems teams (eg. Unix)
- Undertaking scheduled on-call service

Required skills include:
- Solid work experience as a Sybase specialist, up to and including Sybase ASE up to version 15 and Sybase Replication Server up to version 15
- Sybase IQ; MSSQL 2008 onwards 5 years of experience in Sybase ASE installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, database migrations, backup, recovery and maintenance; good knowledge of Sun Solaris O/S and Unix Shell script programming
- Experience participating in documents review and testing application code in a test environment
- Very strong interpersonal and communication skills and experience holding a demanding client-facing role
- Ability to manage, prioritize and solve problems quickly and completely
- Proficiency with Sybase DBA tasks as well as with SQL commands to develop stored procedures and triggers
- Minimum of 3 years experience with Sybase Replication Server installation, upgrades, troubleshooting
- MS SQL Server 2005/2008 is also desirable
- Fluent English is a must, conversational German would be beneficial.

Please only Swiss permit holders or EU passport holders apply.