Database Administrator

Summary

Join Pythian as a Database Consultant and provide comprehensive support for database and application infrastructure to diverse clients globally. You will be responsible for managing and optimizing Sybase ASE and SAP HANA databases, ensuring high availability, security, and compliance. The role involves incident response, capacity planning, performance tuning, and collaboration with application support teams. You will need extensive experience with Sybase ASE and strong SQL skills. Experience with SAP HANA is a significant plus. Pythian offers a competitive compensation package, professional development opportunities, flexible work hours, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• At least 8+ year’s experience in SAP ASE
• Senior SME level knowledge as a Sybase DBA with extensive experience in large and critical environments using Sybase ASE, Sybase 16, and Replication Server
• Experience in Sybase Replication Server, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions
• Good understanding of Unix/Linux environments
• Shell Script and Perl Scripting ability
• Solid SQL and T-SQL skills

Responsibilities

• Continuously review capacity and predictive reports to efficiently allocate system resources and future capacity
• Install, upgrade and patch multiple versions of Sybase ASE
• Manage incident responses, documenting and developing solutions to mitigate
• Backup and recovery skills (analysis, strategies, and options) and implementation (scripts, automation, verification)
• Working to tune SQL to ensure minimal resource consumption, optimal data access, and response times
• Ensure that database security and compliance standards are adhered to
• Coordinate database maintenance requirements and schedules with application support teams
• Automating database tasks for continuous service improvement
• Communicate with Pythian’s customers to articulate database issues and drive the resolution process
• Participate in on-call duties and provide senior level expertise in troubleshooting and resolving database issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledgeable of Cloud Technologies and work within private/public cloud environments
• Experience as an HANA DBA
• Willingness to work shift work hours to align with a North American customer base
• In-depth knowledge of SAP HANA, including installation, configuration, and performance tuning of SAP HANA databases
• Install, configure, and maintain SAP HANA databases on different platforms (on-premise and cloud)
• Monitor and tune SAP HANA for optimal performance, including SQL optimization, memory management, and workload management
• Implement and manage HANA database backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies
• Configure and maintain HANA System Replication, SAP HANA Scale-out, and other HA/DR solutions
• Manage HANA security, including user authentication, roles, privileges, and encryption techniques
• Utilize SAP HANA Studio, HANA Cockpit, DBACOCKPIT, and other tools for system monitoring, troubleshooting, and issue resolution
• Perform SAP HANA patching, upgrades, and migrations with minimal downtime
• Conduct periodic disaster recovery and failover tests

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package with excellent take home salaries, shifted work time bonus (if applicable) and an annual bonus plan!
• Hone your skills or learn new ones with an annual training allowance; 2 paid professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
• 3 weeks of paid time off and flexible working hours
• We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, with 0.3 lakh INR* budget to personalise your work environment!