Exadata Administrator

Job Purpose:

• Oracle Exadata infrastructure engineering combining Oracle DBA administration and PLSQL programming skills to provide support for crown jewel bank applications.
• 24/7 including On-Call support activities of Exadata servers hosting Oracle DBs.

Key Activities:

• Responsibilities include designing, installing, upgrading, patching, tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting databases on Exadata appliances.
• Excellent understanding, installing, administering and working knowledge of Oracle 12c through 19c databases.
• Good exposure and hands-on skills with Oracle database setup and configuration on Exadata. Create/manage Oracle Support requests and support application teams in issue resolution.
• Experience with Exadata Patch/Upgrade and release management (database, storage node, server, network, ROCi)
• Develop and maintain system documentation related to Oracle Exadata and software configuration.
• Strong experience in Oracle Database administration and monitoring including Exposure to Performance analysis and tuning of Exadata infrastructure.
• Good Working exposure in standalone, Oracle RAC & Rac one node architecture.
• Ability to troubleshooting performance issues of the databases hosted on Exadata for applications with high performance-oriented requirements.
• Ability to troubleshoot storage cells, in case of any disk failure coordinate the fix with Oracle support. A good exposure on storage cells architecture is a must.
• Having good working knowledge on Oracle Linux and troubleshooting skills such as network connectivity, IP address configuration and OS related issues.
• Good working knowledge in RMAN cloning & restoring the database across different environment with large dataset.
• Ability to develop custom scripts using oracle PL/SQL & Shell scripting.
• Coordinate with different region team and work closely together.

Specialist Knowledge

• At least 5 years in Exadata infrastructure engineering combining Oracle DBA administration

Qualifications/Skills:

• Good working knowledge in Oracle RAC/one node & standalone databases.
• Good knowledge in Shell scripting & Oracle PL/SQL.
• Having working knowledge in Exadata environment & troubleshooting skills in Oracle Linux.
• Professional Certification in Exadata infrastructure is of added advantage.
• Professional Certification in Oracle 12/19C database administration would be added advantage.
• X8/X9 Exadata machine working knowledge would be added advantage.
• Excellent communication skills.

Personal Skills:

• Goal-oriented and organised working methods
• Good analytical skills
• Critical Skills/Work Attitude
• Excellent English language skills
• Team work

Education:

• University / College qualifications
• Corresponding post education or training in administration of Linux & RDMS database systems.