Senior Oracle Database Administrator

<p><span><b>Our Purpose</b></span></p><p></p><p>Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build <span>a sustainable economy</span> where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making <span>transactions secure,</span> simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.</p><p></p><p><b>Title and Summary</b></p><h3></h3><p></p>Senior Oracle Database Administrator<h3></h3><p></p>The Database Engineer plays a critical role within the Processing Service Delivery organization. This individual will lead large initiatives, be responsible for gathering requirements through feature requests from our development partners, perform analysis and implementation of database designs, provide consulting, and drive the best practice, governance, and standards of Database Engineering in Mastercard<br/> <br/> <br/>Overview<br/>The Processing Service Delivery team is looking for a candidate who can help us solve problems, build and maintain our databases, and lead Mastercard in Database automation and best practices.<br/>• Are you a born problem solver who loves to figure out how something works?<br/>• Do you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?<br/>• Are you interested in leading the database realm for a high-functioning Engineering team?<br/>• Have you worked in global teams across differing geographies?<br/>• Do you an entrepreneurial spirit and embrace critical questioning, innovation, customer service and continuous improvement?<br/>Database Engineering (DE) supports Mastercard Business Systems and Operations across the globe. As part of Technology Operations, DE drives the database engineering best practice, governance and standards in Mastercard. As a Sr. Engineer part of the Processing Service Delivery team, you will leverage your knowledge and skills to deploy and manage various database technologies in Test and Production environments for global products ranging from Developer APIs to Digital Checkout to Card Tokenization.<br/> <br/>Major Accountabilities for this role: <br/>* Oracle database administrator with RAC.<br/>* Oracle data guard.<br/>* Oracle OEM.<br/>* Oracle patching and upgrades.<br/>* Oracle backups and restores.<br/>* Oracle performance tuning.<br/>* Oracle Golden gate replication.<br/>* Oracle Exadata.<br/>• Managing wide variety databases, particularly must be highly experienced in database backup and recovery, performance tuning, and high availability configuration. Database technologies include (but are not limited to): Oracle, PostgreSQL, NoSQL [added advantage]. The ideal candidate should have experience in more than one database technology.<br/>• Forward thinking infrastructure automation and scripting skills.<br/>• Leads in managing client’s expectations and communicates proactively.<br/>• Requires little supervision while identifying tasks associated with responsibilities<br/>• Collaborates with other DBAs, participates in internal projects and leads some initiatives.<br/>• Provide DBA suggestions and input on direction for database domain strategy.<br/>• Guides and provides direction for use of best practices and application database solutions to Mastercard’s development teams.<br/>• Reviews new tools and products that assist in providing database support and services.<br/>• Plans and coordinates data migrations between systems.<br/> <br/>Education (preferred): <br/>Bachelor’s Degree in Information systems or equivalent experience. <br/> <br/>Knowledge/Experience (preferred):<br/>• In-depth knowledge of database management (Installation, creation of new instances, space management, database reorganization and internals, backup and recovery, replication, performance monitoring and troubleshooting, identification of bottlenecks in locks, waits).<br/>• Strong working knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases with relevant certifications<br/>• Good understanding of security standards and best practices around database platforms.<br/>• Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.<br/>• Intermediate knowledge of Oracle replication implementation (Golden Gate/DataGuard).<br/>• Intermediate knowledge of Oracle internals.<br/>• Intermediate knowledge of Oracle middleware (OEM).<br/>• Intermediate knowledge of Oracle physical database tuning.<br/>• Intermediate knowledge of SQL tuning background.<br/>• Working knowledge of backup/recovery using RMAN for Oracle.<br/>• Working PL/SQL coding background.<br/>• Intermediate implementation knowledge of partitioning and/or sharding concepts.<br/>• Working knowledge of Oracle RAC, Cluster Resource software and Oracle features.<br/>• Knowledge of mult