Application Database Administrator-Oracle Enterprise Applications

Job description

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Over the past 100 years, IBMers all over the globe have helped make the world work better and smarter. In this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM is helping to reshape industries by bringing together our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and the Internet of Things: Changing how we create, collaborate, analyze and engage. From transforming healthcare to improving the retail shopping experience – it’s what IBMers do. In Africa, we’ve been changing the way the continent does business for more than 50 years, and as our company continues to grow, we’re looking for talented professionals to join us in this new era.

Join us and be part of a diverse and global team of thinkers and doers, and make an impact.

As a Technical Consultant - Oracle, you will be responsible for providing technical expertise and support using Oracle products.Your responsibilities will include :
·  Creates and maintains Oracle databases and Oracle Enterprise Applications like, but not limited to, EBusiness, Peoplesoft, JDEdwards, Hyperion, OBIEE, Weblogic and Retek.
·  Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the applications and databases. Is aware and has experience on various tools needed to manage and administrate Oracle applications and databases.
·  Performs ongoing tuning of the enterprise application environments, Plans and implements backup and recovery, controls migrations of applications, database changes, configuration data changes and menu changes.
·  Implements and enforces security for all of the Oracle Applications. Enforces standards to ensure that all application design and code is produced with proper integrity, security and performance. Identifies and Analyzes necessary Oracle patches to keep applications up to date.
·  Troubleshoots problems regarding the databases, applications and administration tools, often interacting with Oracle for high impact / severity issues. Understands technology relationships and best practices required for highly available infrastructure, load balancing, application clusters, access management and application deploy processes.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Oracle Database Administration (Install, configure and Backup & troubleshooting).
·  Oracle Database Real Application Cluster.
·  Oracle Data Guard & Active Data Guard.
·  Oracle EXADATA Administration.
·  Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.
·  Oracle Database migration, patching and upgrade.
·  Oracle performance troubleshooting & tuning.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Skills:
Environment:
Professional knowledge related to incumbent's department or function.
Communication/Negotiation:
Engaged as an independent professional. Ability to articulate and compare alternatives approaches. Negotiate with specified objectives.
Problem Solving:
Recognize problems related to project objectives. Creativity and judgment applied to professional technical, or operational problems. Independently generates solutions, based on analytical skills & business knowledge. Challenge the validity of given procedures and processes to enhance and
improve or develop complementary adjustments /solutions.
Contribution/Leadership:
Works on special projects, or leads small teams, or manages routine technical/ operational activities or departments (national or international). Understands departmental mission and vision. Provides advice in technical/operational domain of specialization. Generally controls own work priorities and methods requiring tradeoffs.