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.
• Architecture and design, planning and deployment.
• Pro-active monitoring, performance tuning and query Optimization.
• Database and index designing and tuning.
• Implement and maintain database security based on security policy.
• Backup policy implementation/support.
• New solutions research and development.
• Small-medium projects
• Support Business Applications team with new systems rollout and existing enhancement.

Key Skills:

• Strong experience of MS SQL 2005 and Oracle 10g/11g.
• Experience of configuration and tuning MS SQL Server 2005 (over cluster) and Oracle.
• Experience of T-SQL and PL/SQL-SQL programming.
• Experienced knowledge of Oracle like SQLPLUS, Enterprise Manager, sqlloader, data-pump
• Oracle Database experience on Windows platform.
• SQL Server 2005 Database Server and Database Administration.
• Experienced knowledge of SQL Server 2005 tools.
• Experience in MS SQL 2005 and Database Activities.

The Perfect Candidate will also have:

• Experienced knowledge of Oracle (SQLPLUS, Enterprise Manager, sqlloader, data-pump etc).
• Advanced knowledge of MS technologies (Active directory, Clustering, COM/DCOM/IIS/MS MQ/etc).
• Practical Oracle RAC build experience (from scratch).
• Oracle RAC experience and advance knowledge on Windows or on Linux.
• Oracle RAC experience and advance knowledge on Windows or on Linux.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Windows 2003/2008, x84/x64 and Linux.
• Advanced knowledge of Oracle Data-guard Windows.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Windows 2003/2008, x84/x64.
• 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.
• Experience of using Oracle applications.

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

Senior SQL & Oracle DBA – DBA / Oracle 10g/11g / MS SQL 2005 / T-SQL