Oracle DBA Consultant

As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical inquiries regarding the use of and fixing for our Electronic Support Services. A main point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and advanced issues.

This position is for a Principal Software Engineer to the established Oracle Database Exadata & Cloud support team. The person in this role will be located in India. The teams main responsibility is to fix & resolve highly complex technical issues on Oracle Exadata spanning across database areas including Real Application Clusters, High Availability, Data Guard, Corruption, Backup and Recovery, RMAN, ZDLRA, Performance, Memory Management, Parallel query, Query tuning, Storage, ASM, Golden Gate, Replication, Security, Networking, Enterprise Manager etc. The Engineer should have good hands on experience on UNIX, Linux and/or Solaris platforms. You are expected to work in partnership with customers, other support engineers and developers to deliver a superior ownership experience to the customer. You will have opportunities to become an authority / Specialist in Database, Exadata & Cloud technologies. You will be widely regarded as a domain authority in their current role and will demonstrate the ability to resolve complex problems or identify acceptable workarounds. They should be able to perform their assigned duties with a great degree of independence requiring minimal direction. The Engineer is expected to be a key member of the technical problem solving as well as problem avoidance team, routinely sought after to address very complex, critical customer issues.

Responsibilities

The main role of a Support engineer is to fix highly complex technical problems (Oracle Database & Exadata) requiring high level of technical expertise

• Works directly with customers
• Participates in weekend rotation and shifts
• Participates in initiatives that improve overall product and documentation quality
• Participates in product/platform testing
• Drives improvements in product quality
• Serves as Situation Manager on highly sensitive Customer issues
• Consults with Management in advising resolution of critical Customer situations
• Consults with Customers on sophisticated use of Oracle products
• Achieves knowledge transfer through development and delivery of training, knowledge sessions, mentoring etc.
• Creates /reviews Knowledge Articles
• Contributes significantly towards the “My Oracle Support” Database communities
• Analyzes work load, uses standard methodologies and implements changes to improve productivity
• Proactively contributes to increasing the team efficiency by sharing knowledge, providing feedback about standard methodologies, writing tools / utilities

Who are we looking for?

Qualifications

• Greater than 10 years of industry experience
• Technical degree i.e. BE / B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA / M.Sc. in Computer Science / Management Information Systems / Engineering / Math / Physics / Chemistry or proven professional and technical experience.
• Oracle OCP DBA certification & OCI Certification- Preferred. Oracle OCM DBA Certification is a plus.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Self-driven and result oriented
• Strong Problem solving/analytical skills
• Strong customer support and client relation skills
• Ability to work effectively in high volume & high pressure situations
• Ability & Flexibility to work late shifts
• Effective communication (verbal & written)
• Ability to Network (internal & external)
• Strong willingness to learn new technologies / skills
• Ability to Influence/negotiate
• Team player
• Customer focused
• Confident and decisive
• Enthusiastic
• Ability to Coach / share knowledge
• Ability to write technical Bulletins

Technical skills

We are looking for a core technical person, who has hands-on Database administration experience on UNIX/Linux and/or worked as L3 level support engineer and/or having equivalent knowledge. They should possess the following technical skills:

• Database architecture knowledge and administration
• Good knowledge on Exadata, Exadata Cloud and OCI architectures.
• Experience with cloud technologies from different vendors
• Thorough understanding of the Oracle database features
• Extensive hands on interaction with large Database management systems
• Real Application Cluster (RAC) & ASM/Storage areas
• ZDLRA, Backup and Recovery, RMAN, Dataguard, knowledge of various restore and recovery scenarios.
• Performance Tuning, Parallel query, Query tuning
• Networking
• Partitioning
• Database Security
• Golden Gate & Replication
• Enterprise Manager
• General UNIX/Linux concepts & Administration
• Leading Kernel Parameters, Partitioning and File systems
• Operating systems expertise will be an added advantage.

Personal attributes

• Dedicated and result oriented
• Strong Problem solving/analytical skills
• Strong customer support and client relation skills
• Ability to work effectively in high volume & high stress situations
• Ability & Flexibility to work late shifts
• Effective communication (verbal & written)
• Ability to Network (internal & external)
• Strong willingness to learn new technologies / skills
• Ability to Influence/negotiate
• Great teammate
• Customer focused
• Confident and decisive
• Enthusiastic
• Ability to Coach / share knowledge
• Ability to write technical Bulletins