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:Job Title: Senior Oracle DBAJob Location: Bengaluru, KarnatakaWork Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)Shifts: Rotational shifts:The successful candidate will be a production database-administration competency in our News Technology Services / New Tech Infrastructure team and will take ownership of supporting the Dow Jones/News UK / News Corp Australia/ Realtor corporate databases including performance, reliability and security of data in a core database competency.The Oracle Database Administrator will be primarily experienced in Oracle RDBMS with knowledge of Cloud technologies. Additionally, they\'ll be involved in administration of databases and their eco-systems; will support release, incident, problem, business continuity management practices; will patch, upgrade and comply with audit controls; will continuously improve database service quality to ensure stability and high availability. You are experienced in implementing; securing, supporting and upgrading enterprise infrastructure, ensuring the infrastructure, which runs corporate applications, are correctly monitored and highly available as required.Preferable candidates will need to possess basic working knowledge of Cloud technologies - AWS EC2 and RDS.Candidates are expected to work in a rotating 24 x 5 model and also provide on-call support as required by business.Service DesignTo ensure availability and security of the database infrastructure.To manage the governance process for technical policy, standards and guidelines.To drive best practice designs that promote stability and operational efficiency.Service TechnologiesTo work on core database technologies in:Oracle - Database Concepts and administration.Basic knowledge of Cloud hosted DB technologies. Oracle on AWS-EC2/RDS.Monitoring - Oracle OEM, SolarWinds, Script Based ToolsHA & replication - Oracle Data Guard, Log Miner &RAC.Backup Solutions - Oracle RMAN, Datapump, Export/ImportAmazon AWS Database & RelatedTechnologies - Oracle RDS (Desired)Core competency on Oracle 11g/12c/ 19c / Grid Control Database Administration.Certification in core competency preferred. (desired, but not required)Good understanding of AWS RDS and EC2 instances. (desired, but not required)Good understanding of platform O/S (Linux / Windows)Good Understanding of database / application interfaces ( SQL*Net, jdbc, odbc)ResponsibilitiesProvide 24*7 support for production, development, and test databases.Be responsible for standard databases administration duties: including, but not limited to, installation, patching and change migration, monitoring, backup and recovery.Build, upgrade, migrate and maintain databases.Installation, engineering and administration of Oracle standalone (19c ) environments.Installation, configuration and administration of data replication technologies: Data Guard, Active Data Guard.Use RMAN backup/recovery and deployment.Use Oracle Grid Control (OEM19c) for monitoring.Support patching and upgrades of Servers, databases and appliances.Support disaster recovery events.Support Incident and Problem management.Experienced with Oracle failover and switchover concepts..Partitioning and advanced compression skills.Expertise in performance tuning of SQL statements, reports, Oracle database and Database server.Provides Oracle database administration support for all lines of business applications and infrastructure applications..Provide technical support and coordination for core infrastructure components including server, network, storage, software and middleware.Communicate effectively with DBA team members, developers and management.OperationsResponsible for maintaining services to agreed Service Levels through effective management and communication to all parties.Responsible for alerting the Leadership team, Service managers and Business of any issues that impact production or result in reduced resilience during a production period.Is involved in the maintenance and regular testing of tier 0 disaster recovery plansEnsuring that system failures are contained and resolved with minimum business impact and that steps are taken to manage failures in IT delivery.To join the Incident Management team during major incidentsTo ensure timely weekly preparation of brief management reportsOversee changes to ensure minimal disruption and compliance with change processesProvide timely participation in follow in problem focus groupsInvolved in updates for operational procedures and associated support documentation.To at all times follow and encourage ITIL best practice.Education & Required Skills:4+ years experience of production Database Administration showing a core competency in a specific RDBMS namely Oracle.Educated to degree level, or equivalent work experience with vendor management experienceVery high ownershipDetail orientedDemonstrates commitment to qualityAgile in a fast moving environmentStrong communication skillsIncident managementProblem managementITIL qualifiedService levels and Customer satisfaction levelsEffective utilization of timeObjectives and Goals achievedSteady progress in resolving outstanding issuesMust be willing to work 24 x 5 rotational shifts.Must be prepared to work flexible hours to cover the change windowEnergy and EnthusiasmPassionate about service delivery excellenceLeadershipPositivity and DriveDesire to \xe2\x80\x9cmake things work\xe2\x80\x9dThis job is posted with NTS Technology Services Pvt. Ltd.Job Category:News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

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