Oracle Database Administrator - Vice President

Job Description:

Job Title Oracle Database Administrator

Corporate Title Vice President

Location Jacksonville, FL

Overview

The Inhouse Global Database Support Team is responsible for operating the Banks most business critical and sensitive internally hosted Database infrastructure. We operate a follow the sun 24x7team located in all global regions and have Databases and staff in major hub and branch locations. We are searching for a professional who is proficient within Database (Oracle) and Other comprehensive income (OCI) Cloud environment, to take on a senior role in Database support and incident and problem management. The role requires a Database Administrator (DBA) with extensive experience in a large investment banking environment. The DBA must be expert with Oracle database administration with strong experience in Oracle Exadata Database administration, configuration management, performance management, troubleshooting, analysis, and capacity planning, The ideal professional will have several years of experience within database administration including experience with EXAC@C and OCI.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

• Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Rapid response to incidents, providing dedicated support to all ‘Change the Bank’ and ‘Run the Bank’ activities for Global Database infrastructure

• Advanced system tunings to application specific requirements. Systems standardization and automation

• Database SME for critical escalations pertaining to Database Ops. This will also extend to provide support to vendor teams

• Keeping the Database environment compliant with the technology roadmap, such as database upgrades, patching etc

• Be part of our follow the sun model (including weekend escalation support): Global Database team provides round the clock coverage, to include some out of hours and weekend work will be required to comply with applicable change windows

How You’ll Lead

• As a senior member of the team, you will have a key relationship with our Major Incident Management team, representing us in the Bank’s Command Centre

• You will be a lead resource and point of escalation for junior members of the team and be expected to provide guidance, both technical and managerial, to those team members

• Major Incident Management, along with peer infrastructure support teams such as Database, storage or windows support groups will look to you for assistance and collaboration when dealing with issues or initiative that cross disciplines

Skills You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required

• Must possess in-depth experience with Oracle database from release 11g to 19c and Oracle technologies RAC, Dataguard, Goldengate, Oracle EXAC@C & EXAC@CA, proficient in database administration: upgrades, patching and configuration management, performance management, troubleshooting, analysis and capacity planning

• Strong experience in Oracle cloud and tooling such as Exadata Cloud @ Customer and Exadata Cloud @ Customer Autonomous

• Extensive hands-on experience managing and maintaining Exadata machines. Strong exposure to Exadata hardware with a good understanding of compute nodes, storage cells, Infiniband switches maintenance, support, and troubleshooting

• Experience in automation through scripting (Shell, PERL) and automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) etc

• Expert level knowledge in physical and logical backup, recovery (including flashback technologies) and database migrations

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent

• Preferred Oracle certified master with OCI certification

• You will be a lead resource and point of escalation for junior members of the team and be expected to provide guidance, both technical and managerial, to those team members

• Major Incident Management, along with peer infrastructure support teams such as Database, storage or windows support groups will look to you for assistance and collaboration when dealing w