Primary responsibilities and specific duties for the Database Administrator will include the following:

  • Administration: Manage Oracle databases (11g/12c) on UNIX (Solaris) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems. Configure and maintain database servers, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure:
  • Performance – High levels of performance tuning, optimization, database partitioning and capacity planning;
  • Availability – Ensure Dev, Staging and Production environments are functioning optimally;
  • Security: Enforce security rules as defined by PWC security structures. Knowledge of Database Vault advantageous.
  • Data Analysis: Apply data modelling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations;
  • Troubleshooting: Independently analyse, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end. Able to take ownership of Oracle service request from problem to resolution;
  • Backup and Recovery: High level skills of different backup and recovery and disaster recovery scenarios;
  • Automation: Able to write bash scripts for process automation to track issues, and document changes;
  • Middleware Administration: WebLogic Server, HTTP, Oracle AS 10g (OID, SSO, LDAP, OCA, OC4J);
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager – OMS and Agents administration, configuration and monitoring;
  • Oracle High Availability solutions: RAC and Data Guard setup and administration.

Qualifications/Certification and Experience

  • Oracle 10g/12c Certification;
  • 5 Years’ experience on Oracle Database administration;
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience on Oracle Middleware.

Desired Skills:

  • Database administration
  • Troubleshooting
  • Oracle
  • Data Analysis
  • OMS

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