DBA EMEA Manager

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Position:

DBA EMEA Manager

Background

The DBA EMEA Manager is a technical and management specialist who is responsible for management of the database team across multiple countries.

Database management includes the implementation of new functional databases delivered by project development, the implementation of new database system releases, the tuning, performance management and production support for databases and data management related issues.

Skills/Knowledge required:

  • Bachelor degree computer science or Technical school accreditation,
  • Knowledge of Sybase server 12.5 and 15.X software at the forefront. (ASE, Auditing Function, Encryption, MDA tables, DBCC)
  • Knowledge of data architecture principles.
  • Good knowledge of database administration, programming and systems analysis procedures.
  • Good working knowledge of various RDBMS and OS environments specializing in Microsoft and some UNIX. These include Oracle 9i & 10g, SQL server 2005 and 2008, Solaris 8, DB2 9.5 Windows 2003, Sybase 15(crucial) Windows .
  • High level of Windows Batch Scripting. Medium level of unix batch Scripting.
  • PHP knowledge, Pro-Active DBA by Whitesands Ltd, Sitescope; all a bonus if have these skills

Essential Skills

  • It is important that you have an experienced background in DBA skill (in addition to the expected experience in Team Leading/ Management).
  • The environment is complex and vast covering many diverse applications and database versions and types.
  • Risk assessment/high profile issue management/problem solving is a key requirement for this role also as we are directly managing large volumes of live transactional data with large volumes of users.
  • We must ensure that maximum service level is provided to our business users.
  • Reaction and management of problems has to be quick and efficient so that production standards and availability are kept at the highest level.
  • Understanding of Audit (Sarbanes Oxley/Internal Audit/Database Audit) are key skill to this role also as we are the data guards of live environments and are therefore heavily monitored and audited throughout the year by different audit streams.
  • There is a zero tolerance acceptance rule around breach of audit processes and procedures.
  • A high level understanding of database security/integrity/housekeeping/modelling/release management/performance and tuning/Monitoring are ALL key to this role to ensure strict adherence of all these areas is followed by the DBA's under Susan.
  • Standard Team management including incoming task/work assignment distributed fairly and evenly across the team (pending skill requirement), vacation/leave planning, mgmt admin for the team, Rota mgmt, discipline/sensitive issue mgmt, reporting into Snr Mgmt, etc are all essential to this role also.

Preferred Skills/Qualifications:

  • 7+ year Sybase ASE, 5+ year SQL server 2005 & 2008, 4+ year Oracle 9i & 10g, 4+ year DB2 9.5 Windows 2003 & AIX, Sun Solaris 8.
  • Knowledge of Client Server systems, one or more programming languages a plus including PHP.
  • Windows and Unix Scripting.
  • Previous DBA Management experience

For more information and a confidential discussion please call Michael.

Start date
n.a
From
CPL Solutions
Published at
24.09.2014
Project ID:
779916
Contract type
Freelance
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