We are looking to recruit a Principal DBA to join the established Oracle Database Exadata and Cloud support team. The successful candidate will be located in Romania and have Romanian citizenship and/or citizenship of another European Union country. The team’s main responsibility is to troubleshoot highly complex technical issues related to the Oracle Exadata stack and within areas like Real Application Clusters, High Availability, Data Guard, Corruption, Backup and Recovery, RMAN, Performance, Memory Management, Parallel query, Query tuning, Storage, ASM, Security, Networking, Storage and Linux operating system. The Engineer should have good hands on experience on Linux, Unix and/or Solaris platforms . The selected candidates are expected to work in partnership with customers, other support engineers and developers to deliver a superior ownership experience to the customer. The selected candidate will have opportunities to become an Expert / Guru in Oracle Database, Exadata and Cloud technologies. The candidate will be widely regarded as a subject matter expert in their current role and will demonstrate the ability to resolve complex problems or identify acceptable workarounds. He/she should be able to perform their assigned duties with a great degree of independence requiring minimal direction. The Engineer is expected to be a key member of the technical problem solving as well as problem avoidance team, routinely sought after to address extremely complex, critical customer issues.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The main role of a Support engineer is to troubleshoot highly complex technical problems (related to Oracle Database/Exadata and Cloud) requiring a high level of technical expertise
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- Works directly with customers
- Participates in weekend rotation and shifts
- Participates in initiatives that improve overall product and documentation quality
- Participates in product/platform testing
- Drives improvements in product quality
- Serves as Situation Manager on highly sensitive Customer issues
- Consults with Management in directing resolution of critical Customer situations
- Consults with Customers on complex use of Oracle products
- Achieves knowledge transfer through development and delivery of training, knowledge sessions, mentoring etc.
- Creation/Review of Knowledge Articles
- Contribute significantly towards the “My Oracle Support” Database communities
- Analyzes work load, determines best practices and implements changes to improve productivity
- Proactively contribute to increasing the team efficiency by sharing knowledge, providing feedback about best practices, writing tools / utilities
Who are we looking for?
QUALIFICATIONS
- Technical degree i.e. BE / B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA / M.Sc. in Computer Science / Engineering / Math / Physics / Chemistry or proven professional and technical experience.
- Greater than 5 years of industry experience
- Citizenship in Romania or another European Union country
TECHNICAL SKILLS
We are looking for a core technical person, who has hands-on Database administration experience on UNIX/Linux and/or worked as L3 level support engineer and/or having equivalent knowledge. You should have expertise in Real Application Cluster (RAC), Dataguard & ASM/Storage areas. Operating systems expertise / SA &general awareness on rest of the areas mentioned below, will be an added advantage
- Database architecture knowledge and administration
- Experience with clustering technologies from different vendors
- Thorough understanding of the Oracle database features
- Extensive hands on interaction with large Database management systems
- Backup & Recovery, RMAN, knowledge of various restore & recovery scenarios.
- Performance Tuning, Parallel query, Query tuning
- Networking
- Partitioning
- Database Security
- Enterprise Manager
- General UNIX/Linux concepts & Administration
- Managing Kernel Parameters, Partitioning and File systems
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Self-driven and result oriented
- Strong Problem solving/analytical skills
- Strong customer support and client relation skills
- Effective communication (verbal & written)
- Focus on relationships (internal & external)
- Strong willingness to learn new things and share them with others
- Influencing/negotiating
- Team player
- Customer focused
- Confident and decisive
- Enthusiasm
- Flexibility
- Coaching/knowledge transfer Ability
- Ability to write technical Bulletins
As a Sr. Support Engineer, you will be the technical interface to customers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) for resolution of problems related to the installation, recommended maintenance and use of Oracle products. Have an understanding of all Oracle products in their competencies and in-depth knowledge of several products and/or platforms. Also, you should be highly experienced in multiple platforms and be able to complete assigned duties with minimal direction from management. In this position, you will routinely act independently while researching and developing solutions to customer issues.
