Oracle DBA - Resilient, High-Performance & Automation

GeekSoft Consulting; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fixed Term Employment Contract

Work-Life Balance

Flexible Work Mode

Job summary

GeekSoft Consulting in Amsterdam seeks a Senior/Lead DBA to design, build, and optimize large database environments, primarily Oracle. You will improve resiliency, availability, and performance across multi-product platforms while supporting on-call duties and Agile practices.

You will implement CI/CD pipelines, manage monitoring dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus, and mentor junior DBAs in a fast-paced consulting setting.

Qualifications

• Analyze database and application performance and provide recommendations for performance tuning and optimization.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting capabilities with a focus on proactive monitoring.
• Ensure data privacy, security, and compliance requirements are consistently maintained.
• Respond to production incidents and participate in standby/on-call activities as part of the support team.
• Recommend tools and solutions to help development teams reduce lead time and improve delivery efficiency.
• Work within Agile methodologies and the ING Orange Code culture.
• Implement and support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools such as Azure DevOps, Git, Maven, and Ansible.
• Use and manage open-source monitoring tools such as Grafana, Kibana, and Prometheus, including dashboard creation.
• Support automated deployments across containerized and non-containerized platforms.
• Demonstrate strong scripting skills in Bash/Unix or other scripting languages.
• Provide strong technical knowledge of TIBCO BW 5.x and TIBCO EMS.
• Maintain and optimize relational databases, with Oracle database experience highly preferred.
• Support test automation initiatives and work with Parasoft products where required.
• Provide effective support in high-pressure production environments and participate in 24x7 production support.
• Apply basic knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Agile methodologies.
• Communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Apply awareness of Risk and Compliance requirements in daily operations.
• Install, configure, maintain, and optimize Oracle databases.
• Ensure database performance, availability, security, and data integrity.
• Manage database backup, recovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting activities.
• Perform database performance tuning and optimization.
• Support complex database environments and contribute to database architecture and solution design.
• Senior/Lead DBAs may also provide technical guidance, mentoring, and strategic recommendations for database solutions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze database and application performance and provide recommendations for performance tuning and optimization.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting capabilities with a focus on proactive and preventive monitoring.
• Ensure data privacy, security, and compliance requirements are consistently maintained.
• Respond to production incidents and participate in standby/on-call activities as part of the support team.
• Recommend tools and solutions to help development teams reduce lead time and improve delivery efficiency.
• Work within Agile methodologies and the ING Orange Code culture.
• Implement and support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using tools such as Azure DevOps, Git, Maven, and Ansible.
• Use and manage open-source monitoring tools such as Grafana, Kibana, and Prometheus, including dashboard creation.
• Support automated deployments across containerized and non-containerized platforms.
• Demonstrate strong scripting skills in Bash/Unix or other scripting languages.
• Provide strong technical knowledge of TIBCO BW 5.x and TIBCO EMS.
• Maintain and optimize relational databases, with Oracle database experience highly preferred.
• Support test automation initiatives and work with Parasoft products where required.
• Provide effective support in high-pressure production environments and participate in 24x7 production support.
• Apply basic knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Agile methodologies.
• Communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Apply awareness of Risk and Compliance requirements in daily operations.
• Install, configure, maintain, and optimize Oracle databases.
• Ensure database performance, availability, security, and data integrity.
• Manage database backup, recovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting activities.
• Perform database performance tuning and optimization.
• Support complex database environments and contribute to database architecture and solution design.
• Senior/Lead DBAs may also provide technical guidance, mentoring, and strategic recommendations for database solutions.

Skills

Database performance tuning

Proactive monitoring

SRE/production support

Scripting Bash/Unix

TIBCO BW 5.x & EMS

Oracle databases

CI/CD (Azure DevOps, Git, Maven, Anyd?

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Maven

Ansible

Grafana

Kibana

Prometheus

Parasoft

Oracle

Job description

GeekSoft Consulting in Amsterdam seeks a Senior/Lead DBA to design, build, and optimize large database environments, primarily Oracle. You will improve resiliency, availability, and performance across multi-product platforms while supporting on-call duties and Agile practices.

You will implement CI/CD pipelines, manage monitoring dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus, and mentor junior DBAs in a fast-paced consulting setting.