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Senior Systems Administrator (Oracle DBA)

About BNP Paribas Solutions - Philippines Branch

Established in 2024, BNP Paribas Solutions Philippines Branch is a branch of BNP Paribas Group, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. We provide support services, back-office operations services related to or which further the accomplishment of the corporation’s investment services, banking transaction processing, and equity investment.

About Business line/Function:

The APAC IT Infrastructure & Production team is responsible in services & system deployment and maintenance & support by setting up Database infrastructure architecture in APAC Region.

Position Purpose

As a Senior Oracle Database Administration, you will primarily be involved in capacity planning, optimization & upgrade; configuration & customization; disaster recovery; and offshore disaster recovery strategy planning. You will maintain and participate in regional disaster recovery drills as needed. 

Key Responsibilities

  • End-to-end system performance tuning to help to improve the response time acceptable for clients
  • Provide high quality, balanced analysis and advice on a range of issues of considerable complexity within a specified SLA
  • Take principal responsibility for the identification of key methodological or process issues in the team.
  • Critically evaluates solutions based on logical assumptions and factual information. You will recommend appropriate solutions as needed. 
  • Participate in identification and root cause analysis of repeating problems and escalation to the responsible party for recovery and future prevention.
  • Provide Incident troubleshooting and support for the Databases infrastructure, provide assistance to 2nd level of support in cases of critical issues. 
  • DB’s performance monitoring and fine-tuning, problem management and recovery, and provisioning & usage control.
  • Lead and provide direction on infrastructure database crisis.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Must have:

  • Must have at least 10 years of experience as an Oracle Database Administration professional. At least 5 years’ experience in a multi-disciplined IT environment with a strong background in Service Delivery, Production Operational Support. 
  • Hands-on experience rewriting code, managing Oracle RAC, troubleshooting RAC performance issues and Oracle Golden Gate.
  • Strong knowledge in Oracle Partitioning and Parallelism with experience in Data Warehouse Architectures.
  • Strong background with ITIL framework (Incident Management, Change Management)
  • Must have an understanding of Business Continuity requirements
  • Expert in PL/SQL, Scripting and python scripts  
  • Strong Linux OS system administration understanding 
  • Strong interpersonal skills to interact with fellow team members both regionally and local 

Good to have:

  • Experience working in a multi-cultural environment (SG, HK, JP, FR, UK, IN) is a plus. 
  • Background working in Corporate and Institutional Banking.
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