Sybase/Oracle DBA

The position suits a highly skilled DBA who has a strong interest in career advancement in both a technical stream, as well as being a team lead/manager. The candidate would be required to work on a roster together with a number of DBAs located in London, US and Asia/ANZ. They would also be required to manage and co-ordinate a team of three other DBAs in the Houston office locally.

Core responsibilities of the role include:

• building and maintaining sound working relationships with the Macquarie business users and the wider global IT team
• providing first-class relational database management systems support
• being accountable for the technical delivery of database projects and database support
• involvement in disaster recovery planning and testing when required
• involvement in the automation and manual executions of database system builds, installations, provisioning, deployment
• ongoing upgrade and maintenance of database versioning
• ensuring that database systems are built to Macquarie standards and with existing fleet meeting our compliance standards
• ensuring optimum performance and availability of Macquarie’s database systems
• participation in scheduled weekend and after-hours work when requested

  Essential Experience and Characteristics

• an expert level Database Administrator, with a strong primary skill-set in Oracle (inc. ASM, RMAN, OEM and Data Guard), Sybase ASE and Replication Server. Sybase IQ and ECDA skills are desirable but optional.
• minimum 10 years of relevant DBA experience
• 4 years working in a global corporate environment
• ability to work independently and strong sense of ownership
• have an automate first mindset
• customer-focused with good verbal and written communication skills
• ability to trouble-shoot complex database problems when escalations from the DBA Operations team occur
• experience with perl and/or shell scripting
• Java, Ansible or Puppet experience is desirable
• experience with code development products/practices like stash/git/branching/agile and JIRA
• strong RedHat Linux and/or Solaris skills
• knowledge of ITIL practice and demonstrable experience with change management processes and procedures
• experience with VERITAS as well as SAN/disk replication products
• experience with Veritas Cluster technology
• experience with Cloud deployments (either public or private) preferred

  Core Sybase/Oracle skills:

• Knowledge of Oracle 11.2 and above.
• Experience using and configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager 11.1 and above.
• Experience using Automatic Storage Management (ASM) in a replicated SAN environment.
• Knowledge of Sybase ASE 15 through to 16
• Knowledge of Sybase Replication Server 15.2 and 15.7

  Plus skills in at least one of the following:

• Knowledge of Oracle Data Guard
• Knowledge of Oracle RAC
• Knowledge of Sybase MDA tables
• Knowledge of Sybase replication server counters/monitoring
• Knowledge of Sybase MSA replication
• Knowledge of ASEMon for Sybase
• Knowledge of Sybase Replication Data Assurance
• Knowledge of Sybase IQ or ECDA

The Corporate Operations Group (COG) brings together specialist support services including workplace, human resources, market operations and technology. COG’s purpose is to drive operational excellence through business-aligned services with a focus on quality, cost and risk. COG comprises the following divisions: Business Improvement and Strategy, Business Services, Human Resources, Market Operations, and Technology.

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