DBA Engineer

Aggregate function:  Technology
Business Area:  GT Group Data Centres
Posting Country:  Romania
Date Posted:  9 Oct 2024
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Your day to day:

Ensures the functionality and performance of the database systems and supervises other DBAs. Provides support and works toward solving incidents/doing current tasks/solving issues and problems with the purpose of ensuring agreed SLA.

Performs activities related to the design and implementation of new solutions and related activities of software development and ensures database performance. Ensures takeover of activities from the build area for new platforms.

Develops scripts/programs that help expand the functionalities of IT solutions and automates recurring activities. Creates scripts for databases (Bash, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, TSQL, Perl, etc.) as per customer specifications or business needs.

Liaises with the client: evaluates customer requests for providing new services, comes with proposals for ways of increasing the team performance and for changing the operational model used for interfacing with clients.

Contributes to fulfillment of performance indicators agreed with service owners

Participates in automation initiatives in order to improve the success rates for various issues and increase customer satisfaction

With these activities you will have a great impact on our business:

  • Provides medium to high level guidance, performs work for complex configuration requirements and manages database software bug related problems.
  • Provides Level3, Level2 and Level1 support for Databases and related incidents and problems.
  • Develop scripts/programs for extending functionality of IT solutions or for automating recurring activities.
  • Makes technical investigations for performance incidents and examines issues arising in order to determine the causes and provide / propose solutions to solve the identified problems.
  • Defines technical requirements, designs, configures and implements solutions that contain databases.
  • Ensures operation performance parameters as imposed, integrity and security of databases for IT and telecom applications. Provides support for implementing projects at high quality and efficiency standards.
  • Provides active support for transformation programs and other technology refresh programs that are designed to ensure/increase service availability and reduce downtime and increases the quality / performance of these services.

With these skills you are a great candidate:

  • Experience in supporting Databases> 3 years
  • Manage multiple requests effectively;
  • Previous hands-on experience with administering various databases such as Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra, Mongo is required; also showing willingness to learn new database technologies and to acquire more skills is appreciated.
  • Performing Upgrades or other complex activities, Unix/Linux, SQL Knowledge of database administration in a production environment is also a plus
  • Knowledge of Oracle RAC technology, OCI, Data Guard, Grid/Cloud Control, RMAN, Datapump, Advanced knowledge of SQL tuning and so on will be considered a plus
  • Knowledge of ITIL
  • Understanding IT Service Management concepts (ex. ISO20000 standard)
  • Very good knowledge of the principles SOX
  • Very good knowledge of general security principles

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

  • Hybrid way of working
  • Medical and dental services
  • Life and hospitalization insurance
  • Dedicated employee phone subscription
  • Take control of your benefits and choose any of the below options: MEAL TICKETS/ PRIVATE PENSION/ VACATION VOUCHERS/ CULTURAL VOUCHERS within the budget.
  • Special discounts for gyms and retailers
  • Annual Company Bonus
  • Loyalty Programme
  • Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills
  • You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
  • Getting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company
  • We let you write your own story by planning vacations: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun and enjoy your 23 days off.
  • Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave

We recognize and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workplace so that we are as diverse as the customers and communities we serve. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social or marital status.

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? We are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job advert, we encourage you to apply as you may be just the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help see how your skills fit in.

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Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.