Job Description

Work with a world class team to provide enterprise-wide, Oracle Database Administration support for production systems and provide DBA services to application development teams, including database design, database generation, coding, and database production support. Provide DBA support with a high degree of customer service, technical expertise, and timeliness. Provide accurate and creative solutions to user problems of moderate nature to ensure user productivity.

Provide Development and/or Production support. This includes creating primary database storage structures, designing and creating primary objects, modifying database structure as necessary for enhancements or performance, creating documentation, designing interfaces, database objects, and creating plans. Monitor and optimize performance of the database, plan for backup and recovery of the database, and allocate system storage and plan future storage needs. Create database-related scripts and programs to support development and production environments. Research, evaluate, design, test, recommend, and plan implementation of new or improved RDBMS, ETL and database tools.

Job duties are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years of experience supporting relational databases as a DBA, with multiple distributed relational DBSM's or a depth and focus in Oracle and related tools. Exposure and practice at using the DBMS to optimize performance of large databases for enterprise use is preferred. Experience with an organization with a key 24 X 7 reliance on its database is desirable. BS or equivalent desired.
Senior Oracle Database Engineer The Hospitality Cloud Operation team is focused on maximizing service availability for our hotel product service offerings and on maintaining the service across global Oracle data centers. Our team runs with a start-up like approach, leaving room for creative freedom. We have worked to assemble the smartest people in the industry to build and grow this revolutionary and disruptive team.

We are looking to add new members to this dynamic team and are seeking subject matter experts for designing and continuously improving reliability for Oracle Database components within current our solution portfolio, while aiding the move to Cloud Native / Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

About The Job
As part of the Cloud Application Engineering team, you will be continually challenged and directly contribute to the success of our Oracle Hospitality cloud service offerings, every day, working closely with Product Development Partners, Infrastructure partners and Site Reliability Engineering.

As a Database Engineer, Hospitality Cloud, you will solve interesting technical challenges by troubleshooting key Oracle Cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure.

In this role you will be responsible for the following:
Service Ownership –You will be part of the Cloud Application Engineering team, whose mission is the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas, with our Development and SRE partners.
Ownership Scope –you will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services you own.
Operations Engineering – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes and requirements of the services you own. To understand and communicate every characteristic of their service stack, such as:

· degradation and behavior under load of the services and their dependencies

• end-to-end tuning needs, optimizing resource utilization, as load patterns fluctuate
• Instrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviors
• scaling requirements and patterns
• resiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup / restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested and maintained

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 7 years of hand on experience in administering Enterprise High Availability, multi-tenant Oracle RAC RDBMS environments.
• Extensive knowledge into Oracle RDBMS high availability concepts and best practices.
• Extensive knowledge into Golden Gate replication.
• Strong Database Administration and PL/SQL skills.
• Desire to adhere to and implement Best Practices covering Oracle RDBMS product suite.
• Expert knowledge into daily administration activities such as Datapump Export/Import, Database migration/cloning, RMAN, Data Guard replication, Golden Gate replication, backup/restore, patching, maintenance, upgrades, storage layout, capacity planning and access control.
• Experience with MAA deployments and reference architecture.
• Proficient with automation of maintenance tasks using PL/SQL and scripting tools such as shell script, Perl or Python
• Hands on experience with VPD, Data Vault, TDE, Audit Vault.
• Knowledge of networking and security i.e. DNS records, Load Balancers (F5 / LbaaS), subnets, TLS, SSL, SAML etc.
• Conducting performance tuning to maintain system stability.
• Provide senior-level technical support on solving complex issues requiring rapid resolution related to Oracle RDBMS solutions and environments.
• Server hardware configuration /Linux internals and administration
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet/Chef or an equivalent
• Experience / Knowledge of IT Security and compliance, PA-DSS, PCI DSS
• Understanding of Cloud Native computing foundation Charter and Cloud Native Technologies.
• Defining and documenting technical architecture of complex and highly scalable products
• Most importantly, the aptitude to be a good team player and the willingness to learn and implement new Cloud technologies