Oracle Database Administration

Summary

Join Pythian, a multinational company specializing in strategic database and analytics services, as a Database Administrator. You will be part of a team providing comprehensive support for managed database and application infrastructure operations to various customers. Your responsibilities will include coordinating, analyzing, designing, implementing, and administering database solutions, recommending best practices, configuring and maintaining servers, troubleshooting problems, and administering daily checks. You will also respond to monitoring alerts, communicate with customers and team members, participate in shift patterns and on-call rotations, and learn new database technologies. Pythian offers a competitive salary and benefits package, flexible remote work options, opportunities for professional development, and a focus on employee well-being.

Requirements

• 4+ years of database administration experience managing Oracle databases (including Oracle RAC) with good foundational understanding of Oracle database technologies
• Curiosity mindset and tenacity to fully diagnose why something went wrong
• Troubleshooting and performance improvement skills including index creation, query optimization, schema changes etc
• Understanding of database security management
• Experience managing logical and physical replication
• Knowledge of Oracle DataGuard and GoldenGate replication
• Basic understanding of Oracle Enterprise Manager or PostgreSQL pgAdmin console together with some Linux knowledge

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, analyze, design, implement and administer solutions as per customers needs
• Recommend best practices for improvements to current operational processes
• Configure and maintain servers at the database and infrastructure level
• Troubleshoot operational problems
• Administer proactive database and infrastructure daily checks
• Respond to monitoring alerts
• Communicate status and planning activities to customers and other team members
• Participate in the team’s rotational shift pattern and on-call coverage rotation plan
• Learn different database technologies and provide support

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards and salary package
• Flexibly work remotely from your home or Office, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office!
• Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
• Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
• We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
• You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more)
• Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity