Senior Database Administrator

The Database Administrator creates, maintains, designs, monitors and troubleshoots Acxiom or client databases. They use specific relational database management systems, develop and implement database recovery mechanisms and procedures. And coordinate security measures to safeguard database integrity.

What you will do:

• Support multiple database technologies on on-prem, public and private cloud infrastructure for business-critical applications
• Production support: troubleshoot, patch, upgrade, report, tune for performance and handle operational issues
• Improve and promote operational scalability and standardization
• Managing SLA (service agreement) for thousands of customer data sources
• Work with monitoring teams to resolve issues related to databases
• Review database statuses daily and proactively make updates to prevent issues and outages
• Work with ITIL methods and software to work changes and resolve incidents
• Participate in On-call rotation
• Work with development team to help them create highly reliable data applications
• Deploy, configure and maintain of a variety of database and cloud technologies
• Setting up backups, replication, load balancing and clustering
• Monitor and tuning databases for efficiency and help drive improvements
• Diagnose OS, network and storage issues
• Coordinating with IT and developers on new product releases
• Create tools and processes to automate administration and monitoring
• Work with Database and Cloud vendors to resolve challenges as needed
• Database Security checks and audits, including compliance related reporting and controls
• Developing SOP (Standard Operating Procedures)
• Handle Disaster Recovery (switchover/failover) scenarios

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field of study with a minimum of 5+ years of DBA experience OR Proven track record with a minimum of 7+ years of DBA experience
• Oracle experience in the following categories: Oracle Dataguard, RMAN, OEM, PSU application

What will set you apart:

• Experience or Certifications in the following database management systems: Oracle, Snowflake, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Percona MySQL.
• Problem-solving skills with RDBMs and various SQL and No-SQL technologies (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Snowflake)
• Scripting language Exposure/Experience (Bash, Korn, Perl, Python, Ansible, Chef, Terraform)
• Experience with LogicMonitor Enterprise Monitoring, ServiceNow ITIL tool
• Understanding of or Certifications in Cloud services like AWS, GCP and MS Azure
• Understands the competitive landscape from both a business and technical perspective

Primary Location City/State:

Conway, Arkansas

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Homebased - Conway

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