Database Administrator

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Proteus Europe is searching for a Database Administrator for our client based in Dublin, Ireland

Our Client :-

Our client is one of the leading providers of Financial Services in Ireland and is part of a major European Financial Services Group. They provide broad range of business and personal banking services and has built an enviable reputation.

Your New role :-

Our client:

The Programme

Our client will deliver application hosting services for +/- 350 servers :

- Irish servers will be hosted in the CE DC (Central European Data Center in Budapest) on a new HPC (Hybrid Private Cloud) platform (IaaS)
- Reusing proved Group concepts like STACS (Standard Application support Component for Server software) (PaaS) and existing backend
frameworks and systems, and offering the full services of Group Technical Application Management
- Ireland focusing on the functional application management and supporting their Business.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

- Installing, configuring, supporting and maintaining servers and infrastructure, planning for and responding to various performance issues
such as service outages, system-related projects, user administration, managing security, and other duties as they arise
- Ensure adherence to procedures and processes for hardware, software, and applications
- Interact with multiple business and development units in deployment of new hardware.
- Participate in projects, working closely with various IT functions
- Develop, modify, maintain, improve, and troubleshoot existing systems
- Analyze and sustain capacity and performance requirements
- Analyze, consolidate, tune and monitor systems and platforms for availability
- Oversees backup, clustering, mirroring, replication and failover
- Perform hardware and data recovery
- Work with business clients / development to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow
- Develop (business case) documentation
- Analyse and resolve operating systems and applications issues on various systems
- Develop diagnostic tools to allow Systems Administrators to support products when they are put into production
- Ability to communicate clearly, constructively and concisely to peers and end-users
- 24x7 Operational Support of production, 9x5 Operations Support of Development/Acceptance, on-call after hours support

Your Skills and Qualifications :-

Essential Skills :-

- Will typically have up to 3 to 5 years experience within a similar environment as described below:
- Relevant third level qualification or professional equivalent
- Experience in Window / Linux Operational Support in a medium to large environment performing installation, configuration, and
troubleshooting duties
- Knowledge of RedHat, system administration troubleshooting; boot from SAN, trouble shooting and root cause analysis skills, disaster
recovery
- Good knowledge of SAN architecture, multipathing, WWNs, iSCSI
- Good knowledge of external Disk Arrays, RAID levels, NFS
- Good knowledge of blade and blade enclosure systems
- Experience in scripting for automation: Windows PowerShell, Perl, Bash
- Good Knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, file transfer, DNS, VLAN, and secure protocols, networking/distributed computing
environment concepts; basic routing concepts
- Familiar with most aspects of systems/software administration, such as: system installation and configuration, security levels and
permissions, installation of third-party software, backup systems, etc.
- Knowledge of JBPM
- Oracle knowledge
- Dell / HP hardware knowledge
- Interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem solving skills and be able to work independently
- Process Oriented, understanding ITSM/ITIL processes
- Strong communication skills with an ability to deal with all levels in a confident and professional manner
- Strong Customer centric focus
- Must have a very flexible approach to work and be confident working in a fast moving, exciting environment.
- Be a proactive team player who is motivated by achieving targets
- Excellent attention to detail required
Specific knowledge

- In Depth knowledge of Oracle 11g ( 12c is a plus)
- Oracle Multitenant environments
- Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
- Oracle Data Guard
- Backup and Recovery using Recovery Manager (rman)
- Automate day-to-day Database Administration activities
- Experience with Linux environments
- Experience working in a team that delivers a high availability service
- Ability to work quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Role mostly needed for Temenos implementation. Temenos knowledge required

Proteus Europe operates in partnership with our candidates by building strong and lasting
relationships at all levels.

If you apply for this role, we will:

- Contact you within one week to discuss your current situation and suitability for this role.
- Keep searching for other suitable positions should this role not be right for you.
- Keep you informed at every stage of the recruitment process.
- Actively follow up with our client on your behalf to gain useful feedback throughout the
process.

If you are looking for a new role, but this role isn't quite right for you, please contact us in
confidence for a discussion about how we can help you.
Start date
02/2018
Duration
1 Year
From
Proteus Europe
Published at
06.01.2018
Project ID:
1479403
Contract type
Freelance
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