Data Base Administrator wanted for an international bank. You will be working in the Trading Room Support team of the IT department within our client?s international organisation. This department controls business IT processes, and services the total IT Infrastructure of the company. Although IT Infrastructure has a global focus, it uses regional organisations to service the business locally.
You will be working in Utrecht / Zeist and occasionally other locations of our client, such as London.
Job Description
The primary responsibility will be to provide technical support across a multi-platform infrastructure (Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003)
Responsibilities include:
- Provide day-to-day support for the production & development systems and activities in a structured manner;
- Providing production support;
- Providing project support;
- Monitor capacity, integrity and performance of production systems;
- Install new database servers for both the Windows and Unix environments, understanding the performance and resilience characteristics of the key hardware/software components and be able to follow standard procedures.
Implement a suitable backup strategy to support an application;
- Carry out performance and tuning at database server level and have an understanding of application level issues;
- Maintain monitoring systems to provide 24x7 cover;
- Modify & maintain existing scripts to handle minor changes in infrastructure;
- Be able to reproduce and simplify problems for resolution by Oracle technical support, and work with Oracle Metalink to develop workarounds for problems;
- Understand the implications of undertaking ?unsafe? operations. Understand the impact of those actions, and minimise their risk.
Job Requirements
It is essential that the candidate has been involved in writing and installing scripts for database administration tasks, such as backups and capacity monitoring.
Other essential skills:
- 3 years or more Oracle DBA experience;
- Extensive Oracle product knowledge (at least Oracle 9i and 10g);
- Support Oracle on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms;
- Building severs and databases to global standards;
- Write technical documents;
- Unix Shell scripting;
- Extensive performance & tuning experience;
- Perform Hot/Warm/Cold backups;
- An understanding of fault-finding Oracle Client connectivity;
- An understanding of database security;
- An understanding of network, multi-user access and locking issues;
- An understanding of database logging and recovery and how to recover from the various failure scenarios;
- Effective English communication skills in both speaking and writing (and preferably Dutch).
Desired technical competence:
- RMAN knowledge;
- RAC knowledge;
- Administration of databases in a Storage Area Network environment;
- Exposure to MSSQL.
Contact Information
Interested? Click here to apply direct or contact Robin Overweel through r.overweel@independentrecruiters.nl or by phone 0031-20-7723648 if you have any questions.
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