Oracle Database Administrator BNP Paribas (#MITP)

BNP Paribas is an international bank with leading positions in the European market. It is present in 74 countries and employs more than 192,000 people, 146,000 of whom are in Europe. The Group holds key positions in its three main areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking and financial services network is part of Retail Banking & Services), as well as Corporate & Institutional Banking, which offers services to corporate and institutional clients. The Group supports its customers (individuals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, large companies and institutions) to help them carrying out their projects by providing financing, investment, savings and insurance services.
In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is number one in retail financing in Europe.
BNP Paribas is developing its integrated retail banking model in the Mediterranean countries, Turkey, Eastern Europe and has an important network on the US West Coast. In both its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas has leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and a solid and growing network in the Asia-Pacific region.

The CIB IT Platform for EMEA is responsible to provide IT Services to our Clients ensuring a Digital Market evolution, in a secured and performant environment, and with a reliable quality. This function includes Global Markets Application Production, Local Territory IT Development, the Core Infrastructure environment including Datacentres, Application Production, Security, Architecture as well as elements of the Global Services organisation.

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The CIB IT Platform for EMEA is responsible to provide IT Services to our Clients ensuring a Digital Market evolution, in a secured and performant environment, and with a reliable quality. This function includes Global Markets Application Production, Local Territory IT Development, the Core Infrastructure environment including Datacentres, Application Production, Security, Architecture as well as elements of the Global Services organisation.

• On Site Services: From 7:00h to 19:30h to cover in weekly shifts of 8 working hours/day
• On Call Services: Out of regular schedule, we provide On Call services 24/7 to be covered in weekly shifts by team members.
• BNPP is an international company, most of Spanish non-working days out of weekends are considered as business days, so they require Onsite support -but to be covered with a reduce number of staff-.  These days and the OnCall support have specific compensation, in the same way that if it is required to work in a scheduled activity on weekend.

MISSION:

The “Digital Platforms” Domain is part of the Corporate & Institutional Banking Information Technology & Operations (CIB ITO) of BNP PARIBAS, it manages all the infrastructure department such as the servers, databases, storage, backup, middleware, Citrix farms and VMware infrastructure.
Within this domain, DBA-Oracle has a relevant role, as this component is part of our baseline and cover a large part of our databases scope

RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position is focus on the Administration of Oracle databases in European scope contributing to ensure the DBA services provided to the business are stable, resilient and performant.
The DBA-Oracle team is responsible for production support of all Oracle databases in Europe, most of them located in Paris and London. Support activities include:
o Monitoring and capacity management
o backup and recovery
o performance analysis
o new database/server architecture and builds
o ad hoc consulting to application teams
o general incident and service request resolution
o Change Management

The candidate selected has to contribute to preserve the required performance for a very demanding service with many critical databases running on it.

As part of this role, the candidate has to contribute to keep a high availability environment.

Actively collaborate with technical peers to share experiences and needs, with the target being to collectively define solutions to enhance the stability or increase the performance of the services in scope. 

Provide clear communication to the management team and when required or requested

Focus on enhancing his/her core skills sets, develop new ones and share the knowledge with other colleagues

To work following ITIL methodology is part of the daily basis in this and the rest of IT areas.


REQUIREMENTS:

Training:

• Bachelor in Computer Science preferable but not mandatory
• ITIL Foundation certificate will be desirable


Valued:
• Multitenant environments
• Golden Gate
• Exadata
• Scripting in Ansible/Python


Languages:

 •  English: Intermediate
 •  French: Optional.

SKILLS

Essential:
• Administration Oracle 11g and specially 12c
• Oracle enterprise Manager
• RMAN
• Oracle ASM
• Oracle RAC
• Dataguard
• 3 years’ experience working in an equivalent position
• Linux administration skills
• Team and collaborative working to develop and deliver appropriate solutions skills
• Experience of delivering strategic priorities within strict timelines
• Customer service-oriented skills

Transversal & Behavioral:

 •  Analytical Ability
 •  Communication skills
 •  Proactivity


BENEFITS:

• Training programs, career plans and internal mobility opportunities, national and international thanks to our presence in different countries.
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee that ensures an inclusive work environment. In recent years, several employee communities have been created to organize diversity and inclusion awareness actions (PRIDE, We Generations and MixCity).
• Corporate volunteering program (1 Million Hours 2 Help) in which employees can dedicate time out of their working hours to volunteer activities.
• Flexible compensation plan
• Hybrid telecommuting model (50%)
• 31 vacation days

Diversity and Inclusion commitment

BNP Paribas Group in Spain is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency, which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.