Senior Database Administrator - Oracle

Mastercard; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Database Administrator (Oracle) to design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable database infrastructure across our global services. You will partner with engineering and operations to ensure high availability and optimal performance.

Responsibilities include patching, backup, replication, and automation; you will influence architectural decisions and mentor junior DBAs in a multinational environment.

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on experience configuring, patching, upgrading, and optimizing database software.
• Experience with backup/recovery, security, architecture, networking, and administration for database systems.
• Proven ability to design and implement replication and high-availability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide administration of production and development database environments.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure secure, scalable database deployments.
• Monitor and optimize database performance and reliability.

Skills

DB configuration

Oracle expertise

Replication setup

Performance tuning

Security governance

IaC automation

Tools

Oracle Exadata

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Senior Database Administrator - Oracle

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

Database Engineering manages our databases with a goal to deliver secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure and software deployment capability for global solutions.

Provide administration of production, pre-production, UAT and development database systems and assist in designing of the database tier for our global systems

Provide a robust, scalable and high-performance production database environment working with system engineers, database developers and other database administrators

Role

The Senior Database Engineer role has the ability to perform engineering functions where the individual contributes and/or influences the strategic direction for the Database Engineering Program. The individual will build a strong partnership with management and may manage operational and/or strategic initiatives or support for the team. The Lead Database Engineer champions the Mastercard Way.

About You

• Advanced hands-on experience in configuring, patching, upgrading, and optimizing database software and related products.
• Advanced experience in security, backup/recovery, architecture, networking, and administration for assigned database discipline.
• Expertise and deep understanding in Database Replication setup, configuration, troubleshooting both Physical as well as Logical Replication
• Proven track record in working with technology teams for the development, maintenance, testing, implementation, and support of assigned database technologies and associated software products.
• Proactively monitor with advanced troubleshooting skills for database issues escalated by the business team and internal monitoring in a timely manner with strong skills to drive to root cause and remediation of issues.
• Ability to develop a strong partnership with technology teams and customer to understand business needs and with advanced skills to communicate solutions in business terms.
• Strong to advanced performance and tuning skills with the ability to identify, respond and resolve database performance issues; communicates database performance resolution to technical teams and business partners.
• Successfully follow change management, problem management and incident management processes and procedures.
• Experience with IAC Automation tools for building automation for DB builds, Patching, maintenances
• Ability to handle large to enterprise project/initiatives with specialized knowledge within assigned discipline and the ability to architect solutions.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills to promote Database Engineering.
• Proven track record to proactively plan and coordinate larger technical and architectural efforts within the database team and with external technology teams.
• Ability to influence Mastercard best practices in planning, coordinating, implementing, and maintaining database solutions.
• Proven track record in training and mentoring members of the team by contributing to supporting documentation.
• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a global environment.
• Creates a positive culture in Database Engineering following the Mastercard Way.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every Person Working For, Or On Behalf Of, Mastercard Is Responsible For Information Security. All Activities Involving Access To Mastercard Assets, Information, And Networks Comes With An Inherent Risk To The Organization And Therefore, It Is Expected That The Successful Candidate For This Position Must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Desirable Knowledge/Experience

• Experience integrating vendor and open-source products into an overall system
• Experience working on cloud-hosted services like AWS, Azure
• Database Technologies Include (not limited to): PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cassandra/Elastic Search, Redis, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle Exadata Administration, Graph DB. The ideal candidate should have experience in both RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies

Corporate Security Responsibility

All Activities Involving Access To Mastercard Assets, Information, And Networks Comes With An Inherent Risk To The Organization And, Therefore, It Is Expected That Every Person Working For, Or On Behalf Of, Mastercard Is Responsible For Information Security And Must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.