Technical Consultant - DBA

About the Company

Getronics family is an ICT Services group consisting of the Getronics and Connectis brands. With an extensive history that extends over 130 years, the Getronics family has 4000+ employees in 22 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific & Latin America, and has a complete portfolio of integrated ICT services for the large enterprise and public sector markets. This includes Workspace, Applications, Communication, Data Centre, Cloud, Consulting, Product and Managed Services. Getronics is the leading member in the Global Workspace Alliance, a unique model that provides customers with a consistent IT service throughout the world, with one single point of contact and billing entity, delivering services to 100 countries. The GWA is ranked number 3 globally according to OVUM’s Managed / Maintained End-user Devices with a total of 10M assets.

About the Role

As part of the global operations team working from within the EU, the role will be reporting into the DBA team leader. It will require interaction with various support teams within Managed Services such as OS, Storage and Virtualization team as well as non-technical teams such as Service Desk, Change Management and the Project Management Office. The role has no direct reports.

Responsibilities

To support and maintain Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL database instances

To provide DBA Support to project, development and infrastructure teams

To ensure that all SLA’s are maintained

Respond to all Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL related incidents

Assist the team with proactive improvements to internal processes

Mentoring and coaching other members of the team

To participate in the change control process

To participate in the team’s out-of-hours on-call support

Required Skills

Extensive database administration experience in Oracle. Ideally the applicant will have at least 4+ years’ experience working with Oracle and MySQL, with at least 2 years in a production environment

Extensive experience of Linux / UNIX Operating Systems

Experience of working with High Availability solutions such as Oracle RAC, MySQL NDB, Inorb, DRBD

Working knowledge of Oracle Dataguard and ASM

Working knowledge of MySQL replication topologies, such as master / master, master / slave

Experience with Disaster Recovery solutions.

A good understanding of virtualization technologies

A good understanding of storage technologies