Database Administrator

Global Payments; Pune District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments in Pune, India, is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator to plan and manage databases, define structures, and ensure data security and integrity across systems. You will help implement policies and standards, and contribute to reliability improvements in a fast-paced payments environment.

You will assist junior DBAs with testing, patching, backups, and disaster recovery exercises, while collaborating on performance tuning and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in installation, customization, testing and maintenance of database systems within a production environment.
• Strong knowledge of MSSQL and experience with open source DB technologies preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist DBAs with testing database software, utilities and patches in a test environment.
• Assist in migration of tested/approved database software, utilities, and patches to production.
• Begin to demonstrate a database administration acumen.
• Assist with authentication and authorization requests by managing user accounts and permissions.
• Perform and/or set up scheduled database audit procedures to track changes in the database environment.

Skills

MSSQL

DBMS Knowledge

Backup & Recovery

Database Tuning

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT

Tools

SQL Server

Open Source DBs

Job description

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Summary of This Role Plans computerized databases, including base definition, structure, documentation, long-range requirements, operational guidelines and protection. Ensures accuracy and completeness of data in master files and various support tools, such as base dictionaries. Establishes and maintains security and integrity controls. Formulates and monitors policies, procedures and standards relating to database management. Proposes and implements enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system.

What Part Will You Play?

• Assists more experienced Database Administrators (DBAs) with the testing of database software, utilities and patches within a test environment.
• Assists in the migration of tested/approved database software, utilities, and patches to production.
• Begins to demonstrate a database administration acumen.
• Assists with the completion of authentication and authorization requests by creating/purging/maintaining user accounts, adding/deleting/modifying table and data permissions.
• Performs and/or sets up scheduled database audit procedures to track the who/when changes are made or new items are created within the database environment.
• Assists in the scheduling of database back‑up tasks.
• Observes and supports more experienced DBAs during a disaster recovery and/or recovery exercises to continue familiarization and knowledge of database recovery tasks.
• Assists more experienced DBAs with storage and capacity planning by executing established reports, gathering additional data and occasionally performing basic routine maintenance such as data compression or defragmentation.
• Participates in database tuning, optimizing, and monitoring tasks by assisting more experienced DBAs with the execution of routine tasks such as monitoring query performance and rebuilding inconsistent and/or corrupt indexes.
• Assists more experienced DBAs during application failures to further develop knowledge and application of troubleshooting techniques.
• Gathers data/reporting and assists with the production and maintenance of operational database documentation, such as SQL Disaster Recovery, SQL Recovery Presentation, Naming Standards, Performance and Tuning.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's Degree Relevant Experience or Degree in: No degree specified Typically Minimum 5 Years Relevant Exp With the Installation, Customization, Testing and Maintenance of database systems within a production environment.

Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's Degree IT related field

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Skills / Knowledge - Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.
• Job Complexity - Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Builds productive internal/external working relationships.
• Supervision - Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.
• DBMS Knowledge - Extensive Knowledge of multiple database disciplines and technologies like MSSQL and also having knowledge of open source of DB technologies will be preferred.
• DBMS Utilities - Extensive Knowledge of multiple utilities utilized to manage, monitor and maintain database systems.
• DBMS Recovery - Extensive Knowledge of recovery technologies for local and geographically disperse systems.

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At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises. Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you.

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EEOC Statement: Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify [e-mail].