Senior Oracle Database Administrator at Old Mutual

Job Description

• Old Mutual Insure is looking for a passionate, solution driven Senior Oracle Database Administrator. You will be responsible for performance tuning, troubleshooting, configuration, upgrading, administration, monitoring and maintenance of complex PL/SQL Oracle database environments.
• Responsible for the performance tuning, troubleshooting, installation, configuration, upgrade, administration, monitoring and maintenance of complex database environments.

You would:

• Performance tuning
• Troubleshooting the database
• Analyse and optimize database
• Database scripting/automation
• Resolve database performance and capacity issues
• Improve the availability, reliability & stability of all areas and components of the database environment
• Upgrade, maintain, develop and enhance the database environment
• Perform database maintenance, recovery and back-up
• Manage database utilities, monitor the relationship between the database users and applications, and maintain the organization’s databases across multiple platforms and computing environments
• Perform platform maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hotfixes and security configurations
• Continuously monitor platform performance and ensure system availability and reliability.
• Design and implement systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets
• Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements
• Monitor, optimize, and allocate physical data storage for database systems
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required
• Develop a security scheme for the database environment of database performance and the identification of problem area

Non-negotiable: 

• Degree in IT or similar
• 7-10 years Oracle Database Administration experience
• AWS cloud practitioner certificate (essential)
• Linux Red Hat experience (essential)
• Scripting experience (essential)
• Performance tuning experience (essential)