Database Administrator

Overview

About Business Unit:

A consolidated team of database technology professionals, we deliver expert insights across all major database engines and Big Data solutions to support Epsilon products and platforms. The team has a one-of-a-kind alignment that combines a horizontal organizational structure with vertically aligned sub-groups dedicated to our clients. By adhering to consistent standards and methodologies, the team ensures operational excellence and has close ties with product teams at Oracle, IBM, Cloudera, Amazon and Microsoft.

About the Role:

Seeking a highly motivated and well-rounded Oracle DBA with a strong development background to be part of a fast-paced production support and full-lifecycle implementation team.
Candidate is expected to be familiar with database architecture, logical and physical design, automation, documentation, installs, shell scripting, PL/SQL programming, backup & recovery concepts, and database performance and tuning. Candidate must have good analytical, verbal, and written skills.

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Responsibilities

• Full life cycle support of client's database(s). Database system utilizes RAC and non-RAC for OLTP and warehouse, Active DataGuard for DR, partitioning on 12c and 19c on premises and cloud environment.
• Responsible for database backups, design, development, testing, and performance tuning.
• Will work with developers to design and build new structures to support application enhancements and promote database changes throughout the Dev, UAT and Prod databases.
• Responsible for quarterly patch applications (PSU) and periodic database upgrades with minimal downtime in database environment.
• Required to participate in 24x7 on-call rotation and be available to perform periodic after-hours support.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of related experience with implementation and administration of database systems.
• Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience required.
• Able to administer and manage Standalone/RAC production server environment(s) on-premises and cloud environments.
• Able to understand and meet the needs of end-users.
• Able to work with multiple projects in a dynamic, fast-paced and often changing environments.
• Strong design, development, administration skills.
• Strong knowledge of database upgrade/migrations.
• Expertise in using Backup and recovery tools(RMAN/EXPDP/IMPDP)
• Knowledge of managing Automatic storage management.
• AWS Oracle database administration on EC2s and RDS preferred. Areas of knowledge would include, but not limited to, EBS storage, S3 storage, parameter groups, security groups, and option groups.
• Knowledge of troubleshooting database performance issues.
• Knowledge of Oracle DataGuard
• Knowledge of Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• Experience in writing Shell scripts.
• Ability to write clear, concise technical documentation
• Have excellent written/oral communication and soft skills.
• Oracle certification can be plus.

Additional Information

Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we’ve provided marketers from the world’s leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels.

Epsilon’s comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world.

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Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 
Epsilon is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities by using reasonable efforts to attract, recruit, engage and retain qualified individuals of all ethnicities and backgrounds, including, but not limited to, women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities and any other underrepresented groups, traits or characteristics.