Job Description

Business Unit:

Cubic Corporation

Company Details:

Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We're the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in an innovative environment, we want to talk to you about your next role at Cubic! We are seeking employees inspired by technology, and motivated by the rewards of hard work, commitment, teamwork, quality, integrity, and respect. We invite you to explore opportunities with Cubic.

Job Details:

Job Summary:

This role is responsible for using a variety of tools to maintain and technically support complex and multi-platform systems/databases. This includes performance tuning of production databases, designing new database structures, data migration, initial database configuration and operational support of live systems

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Providing database management support on an on-call basis for all Cubic business system databases (BSD's) from Oracle 9i to 19c including 10g on Sun Solaris and other platforms.
• Maintenance of production and development test environments including database refresh, upgrade, and migration activities.
• Helps define and enforce database object development standards.
• Operates in accordance with procedures and documentation for recurring database administration tasks to ISO 9001 standard.
• Supports capacity planning and proactive monitoring on all BSD's including predicting future Oracle trends for hardware usage and user load.
• Maintaining configuration management control over vendor supplied and Cubic developed database components.
• Assists with coordination between Systems Integration, Business Applications Development, and software vendors in support of database and application development activities.
• Participation in software installations, coordinating with the Systems Integration and Business Applications Development groups.
• May assist in implementing database access controls, taking into account: security, efficiency, integrity, ownership and redundancy concerns.
• Ensures availability and performance of the BSD's, including Performance Tuning all Oracle instance components including SQL and PL/SQL.
• Responsible for problem escalation via functional leads to Oracle My Support and third parties as appropriate.
• Participates in the implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the development and project teams and implementation of changes using Change Control Process.
• Comply with Cubic's values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Some experience of other databases, specifically MS Sql server, Postgres and MySql.
• Familiarity with Ms Windows and Linux OS and competent in their use.
• Familiarity with Cloud based solutions, both MS Azure and Amazon AWS
• Previous experience in supporting 24x7 Operations an advantage
• Ability to work in a 24/7 on-call rotation if required
• Logical and detailed in approach
• Eager to learn with a keen interest in technology in a fast paced environment
• A keen sense of teamwork and responsibility ownership

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type:

Contingent Worker