Senior Hana Database Administrator

Job Description

​ ​ Our Media Platform Operations team is looking for a highly capable Senior Database Administrator that can
operate effectively without day-to-day supervision. You will be creating and implementing standardized database management procedures, and overseeing the installation, security, and upgrading of our database.

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​ You will be working with a global team of professionals to design and develop database systems and to p rovide guidance to customers
on database structures and features. You will c reate standard procedures to enhance scalability and performance of existing database architecture. You will need to be able to t roubleshoot complex database issues in accurate and timely manner. You will need to develop and maintain database disaster recovery procedures to ensure continuous availability and speedy recovery.

Your Role Accountabilities:
OPERATIONS/PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• Coordinates DBA activities with the infrastructure team to ensure database servers are built according to customer requirements in a timely manner .
• Participate in New Projects - Defining database strategy, architecture, standards, and procedures to uphold the integrity and security of company data resources.
• Deploying, upgrading, relocating , and decommissioning database servers both on-prem and in the cloud.
• Being part of the team that includes participation in an On-Call rotation to provide our customers 24/7 support.

STRATEGY
• Reviewing the existing database monitoring and backup strategy and come up with a new strategy based on the business requirements.
• Participate in developing and maintaining SAP HANA for monitoring database conditions and activities.
• Participate in identifying , proposing and implementing new and emerging technologies to support ongoing projects and business operations.

ANALYTICS
• Work with the team leads to d esigning, implementing, and testing high availability and business continuity plans for our Tier 1 applications.
• Creating, r eview ing and maintaining database documentation.
• Creating, reviewing and maintaining
operational documentation that can be used by our 24/7 operations team and junior database administrators.

Qualifications & Experiences:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or information technology.
• Minimum 5 + years of hands-on administration experience, from setting up the SAP HANA databases.
• Experience with the various database platforms like DB2 , MySQL, PostgreSQL will be helpful as well.
• E xperience automating, scripting, and streamlining processes for efficiency and accuracy utilizing Unix shell scripting , Windows BAT , Python etc .
• Experience with different monitoring tools like DBI, DataDog etc.
• Some experience with AWS with knowledge of S3, EC2, IAM, Security, Lambda, Networking etc.
• Ability and experience with the development of processes and procedures to standardize Database installations and configuration .
• Extensive experience with implementation and maintenance of Disaster Recovery and High availability.
• Ability to provide 24/7 support.

Not Required but preferred experience:
• Experience with other technologies like O racle, db2, mysql , Potgresql , snowflake, and d atabricks will be considered a plus.
• Experience working on databases that are hosted on-prem as well as the AWS or Azure cloud (PASS and SASS implementations).
• E xperience automating, scripting, and streamlining processes for efficiency and accuracy utilizing Powershell scripting and Windows BAT

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-12v0bm-18-116-81-41-42 in your application.