Company Profile
RS2 offers secure payment services, payment software and managed services to clients in over 35 countries. The company upholds the highest industry standards and RS2's in-house designed payments solution is the software of choice by many of the world's leading and most innovative banks and financial institutions.
Role Overview
To be responsible for the support and administration of our database environments, mainly Oracle, for both new and existing projects on cloud platforms. Must be able to handle a variety of tasks from simple installations to complex problem solving, either on staging or mission-critical live environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage Oracle database configurations including installation, testing, maintenance and upgrades on cloud platform deployments
- Optimize the databases performance that supports the company's applications
- Write scripts to automate day-to-day tasks
- Efficiently troubleshoot performance issues and give recommendations for their resolution
- Ensure that all in-house staging systems are kept up-to-date using popular import and export techniques
- Plan and execute regular database backups in accordance with the organisation's disaster recovery plans and implement recovery procedures when necessary
- Proactively monitor and patch the production database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime according to SLAs
- Install and test new versions of database products and keep up-to-date with the latest releases and related features
- Keep updated with database security features including encryption and key management techniques, in accordance with the Payment Card Industry standards
- Perform database benchmark, stress and performance exercises
- Contribute in the research and planning of scalable database systems
Qualifications
- Preferably in possession of a university degree in computing and / or be Oracle certified
- Proficient in Oracle Database Administration with at least 4 years of experience
- Knowledge of Bash and SQL
- Experience in the installation and administration of database installations on Unix/Linux
- Experience in using the multi-tenant architecture, data encryption and performance tuning
- Experience in cloud Database as a Service, especially PostgreSQL or Kafka, is considered an asset.
- Highly motivated professional individual and can perform under pressure
- Attention to detail and experience in a highly collaborative environment is a must
- Possess good communication skills and fluency in written and spoken English
- Strong organisational and time management skills, able to prioritize across different tasks and meet deadlines as per business objectives
Think you've got what it takes
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