Technical Support Professional, Database Specialist - IBM

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Your Role and Responsibilities

• Automate, administer, manage, run and make reliable, trustworthy and dependable the processing of all production databases.
• Monitoring operational performance and optimizing SQL in a large and dynamic enterprise
• Working with developers on database design to ensure high-performance and scalability;

• Controlling access permissions and privileges (where applicable);
• Developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans;
• Installing and testing new versions of the DBMS;
• Capacity planning;
• Ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly;
• Logging of Incidents and resolution of all assigned tickets in Incident Management System.
• Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata);
• Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security;
• Patching of all Production, Test and DR Databases as per schedule agreed with Customer.
• Provide the needed leadership and support in the Implementation of Changes and New Projects.
• Provide the needed support with the creation of RCAs as part of Incident/Problem Management.
• Collaborating with GDC to manage the Entire Database and Middleware Estate.
• Take ownership of performance and capacity monitoring aspects of the Database
• Assist the infrastructure team in sizing hardware used for Databases
• Ensure SLAs & Operational KPI are met
• Work as necessary with internal and external support functions where major incidents occur.
• Attending and contributing to team and project meetings
• Contributing to the improvement or standard procedures and documentation

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant program – additional Certifications a plus.
• Minimum 5+ years of Oracle, SQL, Mongo DB administration experience.

• Must possess in-depth knowledge of Mongo DB and Oracle RDBMS configuration and strong troubleshooting skills.
• Strong analytical skills– the ability to assist in resolving various systems issues for multiple integrated locations and systems.
• Understand various OS, network and storage technology.
• Interest/understanding of Hadoop based data management technologies is a plus
• Experience with multi-dimensional datasets, OLAP cubes, and MDX queries is a plus but not required
• Ability to deploy, monitor, maintain, develop, upgrade, and support databases and database servers.
• Time management and organizational skills are imperative.
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal, with all levels of management and personnel.