Oracle Database Team Lead - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Verint

    Verint
    Verint Glasgow, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Full time
    Description

    A DBA team, or database administrators, is a technical team responsible for

    managing, maintaining, and securing an organization's databases. The team is responsible for a

    variety of tasks, including:

  • Planning, building, and managing databases
  • Ongoing maintenance of databases, including updates, fixes, and troubleshooting
  • Protecting databases from intrusion, breaches, and cyber attacks
  • Providing support to database users
  • A DBA team is an essential part of any organization, as databases are the foundation for most of an

    organization's computing systems. High-quality and secure data is essential for the smooth functioning

    of the organization, and the DBA team is responsible for providing these services.

    Responsibilities and main activities:

  • The Manager, Database Administration (DBA) is responsible for day-to-day governance and performance
  • management of the DBA's. This role will assist in developing and implementing the strategic direction; managing the database systems by implementing policies and procedure for ensuring the security and integrity of the
  • databases. This position will promote a customer care and service management philosophy that ensures customer satisfaction.
  • Manage database administrators (DBAs) supporting Oracle, MS SQL Databases running in OCI and Azure.
  • Contribute to data recovery, maintenance, data integrity, and space requirements for physical database being
  • met through formulations and monitoring of policies, procedures, and standards relating to database management.
  • Audit the current environments, provide capacity planning and best practices for the future production /
  • development / test environments, which may include establishing new standards and procedures.
  • Manage Service Now ticket queue and measure and promote efficiency in the processing and completion of tickets.
  • Responsibility for upgrading the system DB and application
  • Lead a team of database experts (hands on needed)
  • Owns the DBA infrastructure in the company (critical 24x7 infrastructure)
  • Defines policy, operational goals and work plans for the DBA field
  • Defines the use of compute resources in order to maintain service and budget - Design and Engineering of all Database platforms.
  • Be the top authority on Oracle database.
  • Design and implement solutions interacting with the applications teams
  • Automate processes and perform tuning for best performance
  • Size and build new database solutions, keep the systems current and secure by designing and implementing a patching policy
  • Monitor databases health and performance
  • Implement, Approve, and Deploy changes for new and ongoing projects – Service now. Quest STAT
  • Work with the applications teams in order to resolve complex problems
  • Consists the highest professional authority in the DBA field of expertise.
  • Planning and creating a Disaster Recovery
  • Manage OCI Oracle DB & EBS cloning, Patching, Upgrade.
  • Keeping DR system in sync with the production environment
  • Provide support to all change migration activities like deployments to production and non-production environments.
  • Adhere to change control process and attend CAB meetings to explain the changes
  • Experience in leading a team of DBA experts
  • Experience working on a large Oracle EBS implementation in a large global enterprise using:
  • Oracle database 11,12,19C
  • EBS suite (R12) and OCI
  • Oracle SOA, OBIEE, BEPL, Web services, RAC
  • Dataguard, RMAN
  • Bash / Shell scripts
  • Willing to be on call
  • DB and application system upgrade experience
  • Excellent collaboration skills
  • MS SQL knowledge is a benefit
  • Ability to develop professional concepts and solve professional issues at high complexity levels
  • Required to implement creativity and innovation in their field of expertise.
  • Contribute to data recovery, maintenance, data integrity, and space requirements for physical database being met through formulations and monitoring of policies, procedures, and standards relating to database management.
  • Audit the current environments, provide capacity planning and best practices for the future production / development / test environments, which may include establishing new standards and procedures.
  • Manage Service Now ticket queue and measure and promote efficiency in the processing and completion of tickets.