IT Database Administrator III

Position Title: IT Database Administrator III
Duration: 6 months
Work Location: Toronto

SUMMARY OF DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This group provides specialized support and a dedicated technology environment that enables new technologies and agility to meet the unique needs of the Wholesale and TBSM businesses.
This role does not encompass any development. This role is very fast paced and they have a lot of work to do.

• Must be able to effectively represent DBA team on escalated incident management calls from operations
• Understanding of Methodology of designing, building, deploying and operating Unix/Linux, Windows server solutions that involve best practices and are consistent with project objectives and client requirements.
• Provide management escalation for support calls including on-call afterhours support.
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude while working with high demands and tight deadlines
• Demonstrates experience involving strong communications skills (written and verbal), proven ability to effectively interact with individuals across business units and at various levels within the Bank (technical, business, including Management).
• Highly organized and possessing strong analytical skills
• Highly adaptable with ability to work in a fast paced demanding environment
• Must be team-oriented with ability to work well with multiple teams in a cross-functional setup
• Self-motivated, with strong sense of ownership and urgency to deliver projects/tasks in a timely fashion
• Demonstrated experience involving strong communications skills (written and verbal), proven ability to effectively interact with individuals across business units and at various levels within the Bank (technical, business, including Management).
• Self-motivated, with strong sense of ownership and urgency to deliver projects/tasks in a timely fashion

The main responsibilities of this position are to:

• Consult, design, build, test, deploy quality database solutions that involve Oracle and are consistent with project objectives, client requirements, technology architecture standards and departmental best practices.
• Administer Oracle database infrastructure from design to deployment
• Utilize Oracle subject matter expertise to design or re-use, configure, and implement database solutions/processes that maximize system availability, efficiency, effectiveness, integrity, security, recover ability, and support ability, all while minimizing costs.
• Provide 3rd level on-call support on a rotational basis

SKILLS:

• DBMS
• Performance tuning and Root cause analysis experience.
• Teamwork – strong relationships with developers and business analysts, architecture & operations
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Effective time management skills and ability to work under deadlines and operational pressures

MUST HAVE:

LINUX & Oracle Database Administrator * 7 yrs
DB Build experience * 7 yrs
DB Installation & Config * 7 yrs
Clustering experience * 7 yrs
Excellent communication skills
Root cause analysis * 7 yrs
Documentation skills * 7 yrs
Shell Scripting * 7 yrs
Cloud Computing 1-3 yrs

NICE TO HAVE:

Performance Tuning
Banking/Financial Industry
Oracle certification
MSSQL Server/Windows
Sybase
Mongo