Oracle Database Administrator

Database Engineer (Oracle/PostgreSQL)

This is Worldline

We are the innovators at the heart of the payments technology industry shaping how the world pays and gets paid. The solutions our people build today power the growth of millions of businesses tomorrow. From your local coffee shop to unicorns and international banks. From San Francisco to Auckland. We are in every corner of the world in every part of commerce. And just as we help our customers accelerate their business we are committed to helping our people accelerate their careers. Together we shape the evolution.

The Opportunity:

At Worldline our technology addresses the persistent challenges of the payment world. We design and operate leading digital payment and transactional solutions that enable sustainable economic growth and reinforce trust and security in our societies. We process billions of payments POS and ATM transactions per year. Obviously all those transactions must be processed seamlessly securely and efficiently. And thats what we do. Being a central pillar of the wider Worldline Group its our ambition to support our clients in keeping up with the rapidly shifting market demands. A challenging job as the payments market and therefore also our organization is subject to continuous change. And you can contribute to achieving this goal.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Provide technical expertise project and (Non-)production support for the Oracle database eco-system

Drive architecture design on customer projects and act as a trusted advisor on Oracle database for delivering highly performing secured and resilient database systems

Deploy upgrade maintain and optimize Oracle database and Enterprise Management software

Implement high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DRP) architectures using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Data Guard Golden Gate data replication

Implement backup and recovery strategies using Recovery Manager (RMAN) Data Pump etc.

Support Oracle database migrations and operations in a mixed on-premise private cloud and public cloud operational model (IaaS PaaS SaaS)

Facilitate and actively participate in all phases of the project life cycle: functional and non-functional requirements gathering and analysis solution design and development testing and implementation post-production support and platform evolution

Support customers in benchmarking to identify bottlenecks provide guidance on performance tuning and optimization of Oracle database robustness and business continuity testing

Provision Oracle instances within application release delivery support incl. SQL optimization

Write accurate and concise technical documentation participate in regulatory compliancy audits

Deliver management and automation tools used transversally within the company

Deliver internal trainings on Oracle database and accompanying technologies (e.g. Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Enterprise Manager (OEM) Internet Directory (OID) etc.)

Align processes and reinforce collaboration between international database teams.

Key Skills:

Minimum 3 years of working experience with Oracle database in production environments

Ability to work and communicate in an international multi-cultural environment

High degree of initiative accuracy efficiency and attention to detail

Professional approach when dealing with internal and external customers

Structured and concise written and verbal communication skills

Maintaining a positive attitude under sometimes challenging circumstances

Flexibility to adapt to change within a complex global organization

Ability to sometimes work outside office hours (incl. weekends) for planned

interventions and participate in 24x7 on-call DBA weekly rotating team role

High aptitude for learning and high degree of self-motivation

Acquiring new competencies and accepting new technical and organizational challenges

Problem solving and analytical capabilities

Strong interest in supporting complex business critical highly available and secured database systems which are subjected to internal and external compliancy audits

Working knowledge of Oracle database (19c) coupled with production

support experience in a multi-service cross-regional distributed environment high availability and data replication performance troubleshooting security

Working knowledge of Oracle Grid Infrastructure (19c) Data Guard Real Application Clusters (RAC) Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Recovery Manager (RMAN) in business-critical real-time production environments

Oracle database incident troubleshooting and performance tuning skills including system storage and network configuration as well as tracing facilities

Good practical knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL languages including performance tuning

Basic knowledge of logical and physical relational data modelling (OLTP/DWH)

Working knowledge of Linux (RHEL) (Unix desirable) operating systems in a multi-domain environment including virtualization and clustering products

Working knowledge of task automation (shell scripting)

Working knowledge of Oracle monitoring and administration tools (Enterprise Manager Cloud Control)

Desirable:

Completed higher-education in information technology engineering or related field

Knowledge of migrating operating and optimizing performance and cost of Oracle and PostgreSQL database workloads in public cloud environments (Amazon Web Services AWS Google Cloud Platform GCP Microsoft Azure Cloud) in IaaS-PaaS-SaaS operating models

Knowledge of other open-source database technologies (PostgreSQL MySQL NoSQL) on-premise and in the public cloud

Knowledge of Oracle database migration to other relational technologies (PostgreSQL)

Knowledge of data replication products (Oracle Golden Gate Quest Share Plex Qlik Data Replication)

Knowledge of data storage technologies (SAN/NAS) performance optimization high-availability and data backup architectures

Knowledge of server hardware and system configuration security performance optimization high availability and disaster-recovery architectures

Knowledge of TCP/IP networking technologies and their functional administration

Knowledge of Oracle database security (hardening encryption auditing VPD etc.)

Knowledge of Oracle Enterprise User Security (EUS) and Oracle LDAP Directory (OUD/OID) solutions for user authentication and authorization

Knowledge of DevOps tooling for automation orchestration provisioning configuration (Ansible Terraform Puppet Python GitLab)

Knowledge of virtualization/containerization technologies (VMware OpenShift DLPAR)

Knowledge of documentation management tools (Confluence SharePoint)

Knowledge of IT Service Management frameworks (ITIL) in areas of change incident problem and configuration management

Knowledge of regulatory compliancy frameworks (PCI-DSS ISO ISAE 3402 DORA SOC 2)

Knowledge of DevOps and Agile working methodologies

Indicative GCM-Level: DBA 10/11

Shape the evolution:

We are on an exciting journey towards the next frontiers of payments technology and we look for big thinkers people with passion can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow. Here youll work with ambitious colleagues from around the world take on unique challenges as a team and make a real impact on the society. With an empowering culture strong technology and extensive training opportunities we help you accelerate your career - wherever you decide to go. Join our global team of 18000 innovators and shape a tomorrow that is yours to own.

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We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as an individual with a disability or any applicable legally protected characteristics.

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