Oracle DBA, London, SQL Job in Docklands, London UK

Oracle DBA, London, SQL

I have an exciting opprtunity for a leading Oracle DBA to join a leading asset manager and investment bank. The person will provide a full range of Database Administration (DBA) services to multiple Lines-of-Business within the Bank.
DBA services are provided for both production and development environments, primarily using Oracle, SQL Server and DB2.

Primary Responsibilities
Provision of Oracle DBA services to production applications:
· Senior level consulting and resolution of complex issues for mission-critical systems
· Monitoring (health checks)
· Ensuring timely availability and performance
· Consultancy / General Support activities
· Performance Tuning
· Troubleshooting
· Out-of-hours on-call support
· Security Management
· Database Upgrade / patching
· Ensuring appropriate Backups are taken to support minor/major recovery requirements.
· Data refreshes into non-production environments

Mandatory skills required:
· Oracle v9i, 10g, 11g Database Administration

Bonus Skills
· SQL Server 2005, 2008 Database Administration

The successful candidate must be willing to learn and/or develop SQL Server skills in order to augment the existing SQL Server resource pool.

Experience profile:
1. OS: UNIX (Linux, AIX), Windows OS.
2. Database problem solving/troubleshooting/consultancy
3. Database design, development, testing and implementation (full development life-cycle)
4. Database performance analysis and tuning (Quest tools experience an advantage)
5. Clustered server environment support. VERITAS would be advantageous.
6. Adherence to formal change management processes
7. SQL and PL/SQL development and support.
8. Implementation of database security
9. Availability / Capacity / Performance management
10. Keep DBMS skills up-to-date with industry standards, technique and DBMS versions.
11. Ability to work effectively under pressure
12. Good written and interpersonal communication skills and proven ability to deal with customers.
13. Must have ability to take ownership of small/medium sized tasks/initiatives and progress to a successful conclusion.
14. Experience with any of the following products would be advantageous:
a. Oracle Enterprise Manager
b. Quest Performance Analyser
c. Quest Foglight
d. TOAD DBA Suite
e. ESP Job Scheduler
f. TSM /Data Domain / Avamar
g. Oracle Database Vault
15. Ability to use various resources for Oracle solving e.g.
a. Online support (Oracle support)
b. Recognized Knowledgebase's
16. Ability to understand Unix shell scripts and Windows batch files
17. Backup and recovery techniques
(esp. in SAN storage environment, including use of RMAN)
18. REMEDY (Incident/Problem/Change management)
19. HP OpenView

Advantageous SQL Server Skills
20. Native backup techniques
21. SQL Server Replication (e.g. log shipping)
22. DTS / SSIS experience
23. SSRS experience
24. Quest litespeedThe JM Group is acting as an employment agency with relation to this vacancy.