Senior Oracle Database Administrator

The Company

ALOIS is a global consulting, services and staffing solutions partner with dedicated teams to service a wide range of specialties and domains.

Our goal is to empower our employees by creating a support system and process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential

Role: Oracle Database Administrator

Location: Riyadh

Job Description:

• You will be responsible for install, maintain, support/troubleshooting predominantly Oracle products and help our customers making best use of the technology
• Provide primary support for critical, complex production Oracle databases running financial applications.
• Perform Oracle Systems Database Administration across multiple Oracle database environments and ensure continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical internal production applications.
• Good knowledge of Unix Shell Scripting and be able to write/maintain OS level scripts (i.e., UNIX shell) for system DB maintenance.
• Ensure the quality and consistency of data and database systems by following a defined set of procedures (change control, security procedures, user passwords, backups, etc.).
• Strong operational experience with Oracle Database on RAC on Oracle 12C/19C and above with ASM Disk.
• Migrate the existing Platform to the current engineered Standard of Oracle 12c, Active Data Guard, RAC and ASM for fast Test and Dev refreshes
• Actively participate in solutions architecture, product engineering and continual service improvement
• Perform various project related database requests for customers. Tasks can include DDL generation, cloning, schema and/or table level data refreshes, performance tuning, database consolidation.
• Collaborate with application/development partners to address performance reported issues. Troubleshoot and resolve, in conjunction with Operational/Customer DBAs, database application issues across production, test and development environments
• Create a reliable backup strategy. Ensure database backups are appropriately. Manage backup/recovery and provide Disaster Recovery planning. Test backup and recovery scenarios, formulate disaster recovery procedures using storage technologies such as NAS and RMAN etc.
• Provide input into architecture and design for new Oracle Database implementation.
• Proactively manage and maintain security standards and controls.
• Actively seek to optimize and simplify our architecture.
• Take ownership of performance and capacity monitoring aspects of the DB.
• Execution of data migration jobs and scripts as required.
• Assist the infrastructure team in sizing hardware used for the DB.
• Support and collaborate with product developers.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of disaster recovery plans.
• Determine and document DB policies, procedures and standards.
• Performance testing and evaluation to ensure data security, privacy and integrity. Identification of bottle necks and deadlock issues.
• Ensure SLA's & operational KPI’s are met, working as necessary with internal
• and external support functions when major incidents occur.
• Hand on experience on deploying and managing Oracle Database Encryption and Oracle Data Masking.
• Good Working experience on Oracle Enterprise Manager for oracle database monitoring configuration and different reporting generation as per the business and operation requirements.

Required skills

• Ideally Oracle Certified DB Professional (OCP) with more than 12 years’ experience with Oracle. Experience should include installation, configuration, patching, DB design, capacity planning, performance tuning, storage management, back-up and recovery, managing schemas, report generation and DB clustering technologies.
• Operating system experience in Linux.
• Oracle management tools (Data Guard, RMAN, Data pump, OEM).
• Oracle Database Partitioning.
• Architecture design principles.
• Good problem solver, performance tuning skill set, focused and dedicated developer with ability to work on your own as well as with a team.
• Hands on experience with DB standards and end user applications-translating capacity requirements into infrastructure deployment technology.
• Strong practical experience of ORACLE in a production RAC (ASM) environment (19C).

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