Oracle Database Administrator (Germany team)

The Oracle Database Administrator will have the following responsibilities:

• Maintenance and support of day-to-day business in the database team
• Implementation of database services after commissioning
• Create new databases and environments in an extended RAC environment
• Set up services for applications considering specifics such as not RAC capable 
• Guarantee reliability or proactive participation in measures to avoid production downtime
• Solving production downtimes competently and promptly
• Conversion of Oracle CDB/ PDB databases
• Analyzing and defining cardinalities for old applications on RAC
• Participation in release assignments
• Provision of participation services from the database team in projects, e.g. Move2Cloud and in regulatory requirements as well as POCs
• Systematically analyze security gaps and develop solutions
• Analyze and fix performance issues
• Optimize database monitoring
• Set up backup and ensure fast recovery times through regular testing during environment setup
• Onboarding new DB users to CyberArk 
• Support of the Oracle Apex application as well as participation in the patching of these
• Participation and further development of the Database Information System (DBI)
• Adapting existing scripts for Cloud Move
• Further automation for environment setups
• Support in the automation of pseudonymization of data after a database rebuild by means of ETL development
• Systematically evaluate the DB parameters across all databases and script necessary changes to further automate
• Further develop Ansible scripts for inline patching and extend them for PDB
• Participation in patching Oracle databases and, if necessary, other DB technologies
• Ensure Git versioning.

What qualities do we look for?

• Sound and long-standing knowledge of database technologies and their operating processes (Oracle, PostgreSQL, ideally also MSSQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch)
• Good experience with Oracle Exadata Cloud Customer
• Very good knowledge of shell and ansible scripting
• Good knowledge of Git
• High technical understanding in IT infrastructure services
• Ideally, in-depth expertise in the development, operation and sourcing of data center services in the banking environment
• Several years of experience in IT migration and/or development projects, ideally cloud-based and/or experience in migrating databases in a data center move desirable
• Good knowledge of common project management methods (classic, agile)
• Experience in working with common collaboration tools, such as Confluence, Jira
• High integration capability   
• Structured, goal-oriented and solution-oriented way of working
• Strong communication and organizational, persistent, sustainable
• Good level of English, German is a plus.

Why BNP Paribas?

• Progressive career development opportunities of a large multi-national bank
• Talent Development opportunities within BNP Paribas Group
• Employee culture that is focused on creating a great place to work
• Multinational business environment
• On-the-job training and networking opportunities.