Temporary Production Database Administrator £9.50ph

Temporary Production Database Administrator £9.50ph

Our client is a highly successful and well recognised company specialising in training and education for professional qualifications in a range of expert fields. A distinctive supportive and welcoming culture making this a highly sought after role.

Key responsibilities:

• Participating in technology and business projects.
• Taking ownership of performance and capacity monitoring aspects of all databases.
• Ensure that all physical changes to database structures are fully documented in as built documentation and align to logical data models.
• Providing support to members of the team relating to performance tuning of applications, integration, data quality monitoring and reporting.
• Assisting Onsite engineers with diagnosing client software issues where database connectivity is a problem.
• Creating sanitised data sets for use in development and testing functions.
• Owning the reject and exception handling processes associated with scheduled database jobs.
• Executing one off data migration jobs and scripts as required.
• Performing functional testing on database capability proposed to be implemented into production.
• Working with the IT service desk on end user / project access issues to UK databases.
• Engaging with vendors in testing new releases to database software.
• Ensuring that any service disruptions are reported immediately and summarised weekly to IT management.
• Assisting the infrastructure team in sizing hardware used for database engines.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in the following areas:

• ITIL certification (desirable)
• Microsoft DBA qualifications
• Oracle DBA qualifications
• Substantial experience working as a production database administrator
• Ideally some experience of working as a project database administrator
• Preferably some experience in working on data conversions between database platforms
• Excellent skills with Microsoft SQL and Oracle SQL
• Intermediate level experience with MySQL
• Ideally some exposure to Oracle extent management (Oracle 8 skill)
• Exposure to IT framework processes such as ITIL & SDLC
• Experience of MS SQL, Oracle PLSQL, MySQL
• Previous experience of database capacity planning
• Management of Oracle ASM
• Extent management
• Conversion of data between different databases
• Database monitoring & troubleshooting
• Database performance tuning
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent planning and organisational skills