First Abu Dhabi Bank Looking for Senior Engineer – Manager- Platform Databases at Abu Dhabi ,  United Arab Emirates Full Time

Job Description

Generic Accountability

• Senior Engineer – Manager as part of the Core Delivery team aligned to a particular service
• Ideally through experience you will enhance your skills across multiple specializations

Specific Accountability

• Lead the team of the database engineers/DBAs
• Support production Oracle databases on-prem and in public cloud
• Oracle database administration, performance tuning & backup
• HA management (Real Application Clusters, Oracle Data Guard)
• Database performance and problem management
• Underlying OS troubleshooting & solving problems related to database
• Vendor/OEM coordination
• Plan and execute database DR activities
• Major incidents/Severity 1 call handling and leading to resolution across multiple teams
• Preparation of the RCA (Root Cause Analysis)
• Adhere to Change Management Process
• Mentor other team members and junior engineers
• Implement industry-best practices (Service Improvement Plans)
• Document risks/SPOF in databases
• Actively participate in various technology projects as a SPOC from the Platform Databases team
• Additional work experience with PostgreSQL & MYSQL would be an added advantage

Qualifications

• 10+ Years of Experience in Oracle Database Management (e.g. Incident, Problem, Change, Configuration, Availability, IT Continuant Management)
• Deep expertise in Oracle technology stacks and ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Ability to coach and guide the team of Engineers
• Ability to identify requirements and create a solution architecture that meets identified requirements
• Proficiency in troubleshooting software or infrastructure issues, troubleshooting using tools or debugging a large codebase
• Improves team operation practices by incorporating best practices
• Successfully launches new features or re-architects old features.
• Extensive service Management, scripting, packaging tools, or programming knowledge
• Identifies and evaluates new technologies & DB new features for implementation
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to visualize processes and outcomes
• Continually improves system monitoring and alerting
• Identifies and fixes the security vulnerabilities
• Ability to develop test plans and quality assurance procedures
• Recommends changes in policies and procedures
• Extensive Oracle database administration experience in senior DBA function for large organization. Deployment, operations, tuning, backup, security.
• Expert in performance tuning, capacity management and troubleshooting large Oracle DB deployments with continuous availability requirements.
• Responsible for day-to-day monitoring, patch analysis and deployments.
• Expertise in cloning / refreshing production application and database to non-production instances.
• Coordinate with Team Lead to ensure that the associated hardware resources are allocated to the databases and ensure high availability and optimum performance
• Design and implementation of high availability environments utilizing Oracle RAC, Data Guard etc
• Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
• Provide 24.7 support for production systems
• Oracle TDE Implementation & network level encryption using Oracle utilities
• Respond to database related outages within the SLA timelines and provide detailed RCA
• Implement changes/deployments to the production environment as per the change management guidelines.
• Ability to work independently on all complex projects and to collaborate with various infrastructure groups (Server, Network, Storage etc)
• Proactively monitoring the database’s health and taking preventive or corrective action as required
• Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle server software related products & Patch Management and Version Control
• Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures
• Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges)
• Perform database tuning and performance monitoring
• Setup and maintain documentation and standards
• Plan growth and changes (capacity planning)
• Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines
• Interface with Oracle Corporation for technical support.
• Advance knowledge in Oracle database architecture and features, both in private and public cloud environments. (Azure & AWS)
• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Experience with other RDBMS – MY-SQL, PostgreSQL
• Experience in creating and maintaining UNIX shell and Perl scripts.
• Experience in ITIL Processes