Senior Database Administrator / SQL and Oracle Specialist – DBA / Oracle 10g/11g / MS SQL 2005 / T-SQL

A global investment bank are looking for an experienced Senior Database Administrator to join their production support team in London.

The successful DBA will be part of a five man production support team running all Oracle and MS SQL databases maintenance and production support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oracle and MS SQL databases maintenance and support.
• Remote 1st/2nd/3d line support of mission critical databases in Moscow and London and other locations.
• Pro-active monitoring, performance tuning and query Optimization.
• Database and index designing and tuning.
• Implement and maintain database security based on security policy.
• DR development/planning.
• Backup policy implementation/support.
• New solutions research and development.
• Architecture and design, planning and deployment.

Key Oracle Skills:

• Expert knowledge of Oracle 10g/11g.
• Expert knowledge of configuration and tuning Oracle.
• Expert knowledge in PL/SQL-SQL programming.
• Oracle Database experience on Windows platform.
• Practical Oracle RAC build experience; Demonstrate ability to build RAC from scratch.
• Oracle RAC experience and advance knowledge on Windows or on Linux.
• Experienced knowledge of Oracle (SQLPLUS, Enterprise Manager, sqlloader, data-pump etc).
• Advanced knowledge of MS Windows 2003/2008, x84/x64 and Linux.
• Advanced knowledge of Oracle Data-guard Windows.

Key MS SQL Skills:

• Expert knowledge of MS SQL 2005/2008.
• Expert knowledge of configuration and tuning SQL Server 2005 over MS cluster.
• Expert knowledge in T-SQL programming.
• SQL Server 2005 Database Server and Database Administration.
• Experienced knowledge of SQL Server 2005 tools.
• Experience in MS SQL 2005 and Database Activities
• SQL Server Integration Services.
• Various XML features in SQL Server 2005 including knowledge of XPath and XQuery.
• Experienced in export/import data from/to various formats like delimited raw/text file, MS-Excel, XML, SQL Server, MS-Access.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Windows 2003/2008, x84/x64.
• Advanced knowledge of MS technologies (Active directory, Clustering, COM/DCOM/IIS/MS MQ/etc).

£80,000 – £95,000 depending upon experience.

Senior Database Administrator / SQL and Oracle Specialist – DBA / Oracle 10g/11g / MS SQL 2005 / T-SQL