Senior Oracle Database Administrator

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time

**Key purpose**:
We are seeking a Senior Oracle DBA with expertise in Oracle Cloud to join our team.

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the performance, integrity, and security of complex databases and processes.

You will design, implement, and administer Oracle database management systems, working closely with other technical teams to meet client needs and ensure secure access.

Your responsibilities will include installing, administering, and maintaining database servers, managing access permissions, optimizing database performance, and ensuring database recoverability in the event of a disaster.

To excel in this role, you should have a deep understanding of the Oracle ecosystem, strong familiarity with cloud architecture and services, and possess the technical skills necessary to deploy, manage, and maintain databases in the cloud.

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Provide input into the Presales and Sales processes
- Accurate timekeeping
- Respond to customer requests
- Work with technical contacts from other teams or external partners on integration projects
- Business consulting in database environments as well as architecting solutions to customer requirements and ensuring that solutions are built to specification and client requirements.
- Ability to provide on-call and 24x7 DBA support when applicable
- Perform database administration, maintenance, performance tuning, security, and troubleshooting
- Provide daily health check reports
- Develop, maintain, perform, and test database backup and recovery strategies and procedures
- Perform database installations, configurations, upgrades, and migrations
- Provide proactive performance monitoring, and capacity planning for future database and server growth
- Develop and maintain best practices database documentation.
- Administer and maintain database and user security policies and standards including compliance with SOX regulations
- Work closely and effectively and maintain good relationship with DBA team members, and in-house software development, project management, QA, and system admin teams
- Design, evaluate and recommend best practices for database models and architecture
- Manage standards and strategies for security, database objects, and backup / recovery
- Monitor capacity and performance, troubleshooting, and proactively resolving a wide variety of problems. Establish and maintain standards, procedures and automation strategies for tools and monitoring
- Participate or lead development of smaller projects and ensure their timely delivery
- Participate and contribute in the teams development process
- Act as a liaison between the Database Administration staff, project development staff and functional team
- Research, and evaluate new databases trends and technologies and provide best practices and recommendations
- Mentor less experienced members of the team in technology and processes.
- Keep abreast with latest developments in Database technologies and share knowledge with the team.
- Willing to learn other database platforms

**Qualifications and experience**:

- Matric, Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, in Computer Science / Information Technology, or equivalent
- Oracle database certification & knowledge of Unix, storage subsystems advantageous
- Oracle Cloud certification and experience advantageous
- Excellent communicator, and high levels of proficiency in the English language speaking, read and write
- Ability to create and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and customers
- Experience in the capacity of a Senior Database Administrator.
- Experience in supporting Databases and middleware services in Cloud Hyperscalers (Oracle OCI, AWS & Azure)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and be familiar with its various services, such as cloud tooling, infrastructure: compute, networking, storage, and databases.
- Proficient in managing Oracle databases in the cloud, including deploying, configuring, migrating, and auto scaling
- Experience with Oracle Autonomous Database (provision, monitor and monitor)
- Understanding of Cloud Security
- Skilled in optimizing database performance in cloud environments, including tuning queries, optimizing storage, and improving network throughput, system scaling.
- Core Database Administration: administration, maintenance, performance tuning, security, backup and recovery, high availability
- Oracle
- Minimum 6 Years Database Administrator Experience on Oracle in a senior capacity
- Core Database Administration: administration, maintenance, performance tuning, security, backup and recovery, high availability
- Experience with implementing and supporting Backup, High availability and Disaster Recovery technology (Rman, Oracle RAC, Data Guard)
- Experience in Database Migrations, including Cloud Migrations (OCI, Azure, AWS)
- A solid understanding of Windows, Unix/Linux, Solaris Operating Systems
- Oracle Weblogic

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