Database Systems Engineer

5 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Jobs for Humanity Full time

Jobs for Humanity is seeking a highly skilled Database Systems Engineer to join our team.

We offer a competitive salary of $120,000 per year, along with attractive benefits and a modern work environment.

About the Job

This is an exciting opportunity to work on challenging projects that require expertise in database administration, Shell Scripting, and multiple database management systems. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining databases that meet current and future business requirements.

  • Main Responsibilities:
  • Meet commitments and provide excellent customer service at all times with internal and external clients.
  • Provide status reports that are detailed to tasks and difficulties encountered – enables managers to initiate escalation if necessary and assess areas where changes or additional support may be warranted.
  • Ensure issues resulting in customer outage are escalated appropriately through TSG management.
  • Assist application groups with design development that meets current and future business requirements.
  • Participate in logical design process of strategic projects and responsible for the physical design/implementation.
  • Provide specific direction on infrastructure design to support applications.
  • Participate as a member of development support team on projects.
  • Follow and meet project timelines and deadlines.
  • Provide maintenance of physical database.
  • Create physical database objectives following established standards and processes employed by database team.
  • Enforce database standards and follow up on inconsistencies.
  • Perform routine reviews of databases and systems to ensure acceptable levels of performance.
  • Report problem performance areas and recommendations for improvement.
  • Follow up on recommendations and actively push for implementation as appropriate.
  • Understand and apply database concepts such as database definitions, parameters, database component placement, reorganization, access methods and security definitions.
  • Work with capacity planning, operations, application developers and other TSG teams on database performance and access issues.
  • Provide 24/7 support of production database environments.
  • As primary administrator, provide on call support as needed for on-call issues with database environments and provide follow up and permanent resolution for reoccurring issues.
  • Implement backup/recovery procedures to protect integrity of data in database environment.
  • Actively manage backups along with other database administrators to ensure processes are successful and we can recover as a result.
  • If necessary, participate in recovery of databases and assist with disaster recovery testing and documentation.
  • Other related duties assigned as needed.
What You Bring
  • Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
  • 2 to 5 years of experience in Oracle database administration and Shell Scripting is a must.
  • Working knowledge of at least one database management system in PostreSQL, MongoDB or MYSQL or a proven ability to learn new technologies and use that knowledge effectively.
  • Hands-on experience or knowledge in Exadata, OEM, Dataguard and patching will be ideal.
  • Basic knowledge of operating systems and systems administration concepts.
  • Personal commitment to stay current with latest technology concepts.
  • Good problem solving, analytical and critical thinking skills.

We are looking for someone who is motivated, forward-thinking, and has a passion for working with complex systems.



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