DevOps - Oracle Database Engineer WB@ ING Hubs Ro

The Mission

As an Oracle expert, you'll become part of the Oracle Expert Team within WB Tech.

You will work in close collaboration with internationally diversified squads in ING's Agile organization to achieve the commitments.

The Oracle Expert Team is a specialized group of professionals with deep expertise in Oracle technologies, responsible for the design, implementation, management, optimization, and support of Oracle-based systems within an organization. The team's primary objective is to ensure that Oracle databases and related applications perform at their best, remain secure, and align with the organization’s business and technical goals.
In collaboration with your team, you will play a key role in keeping ING at the forefront of IT standards while continuously driving improvements.
The chapter is responsible for consulting squads to help them manage their systems in line with best practices.

We support Oracle consumers by proactively identifying potential risks before they become issues, assisting them on performance improvements, keeping blocking database issues on track, and enhancing database reliability .

We support squads to embrace proactive approach to reduce incidents and outages, ultimately improving the overall customer experience.

Your day to day:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment;
• Lead the design and implementation of database configurations;
• Drive automation initiatives using modern scripting and programming techniques;
• Manage and expand robust database solutions that power ING's databases;
• Ensure the database security and performance of critical banking systems;
• Pioneer innovative solutions for complex database challenges;
• Identify and mitigate risks to minimize incidents, outages, and enhance the customer experience;
• Advise squads on efficient resource usage, lifecycle management, and capacity planning;
• Assist squads with performance optimization and SQL tuning;
• Organizing knowledge sharing and awareness sessions for Oracle consumers across the company;
• Conducting reliability interviews with Asset Owners to enhance database reliability;
• Establish standards based on industry best practices;
• Lead and coordinate strategic projects, collaborating with other IT teams as needed;
• Bring senior-level expertise to the team, sharing knowledge and best practices with the ING Oracle community;
• Stay updated with the latest technologies and database solutions, always seeking opportunities for innovation.

What you’ll bring to the team

You are a skilled and experienced Oracle database engineer. You are substantively strong, and you are focused on achieving the best and concrete results in your work. Also, you are a real team player. The complex and versatile operational working environment requires you to be able to switch quickly. You have a strong interest in the latest trends.

Experience:Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience in a complex IT environment.

Knowledge:

• Extensive knowledge of Oracle Database Architecture, Performance Tuning, Data Management (OCP-OCM experience or equivalent);
• Experience with Oracle Exadata and Multitenant Architecture;  
• Knowledge of, and experience with troubleshooting: diagnose and resolve complex database issues promptly;
• Experience with capacity planning;
• PL/SQL knowledge;
• Experience in working with Linux RHEL;
• Knowledge of, and experience with ELK stack and other monitoring and alerting solutions like Grafana and Prometheus;
• Scripting experience with one or more scripting languages or automation solutions (Ansible, Korn/Bash Shell, Python) to automate routine database task;
• Knowledge of, and experience with continues delivery tools like GIT, Azure DevOps, and Azure pipeline;
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and an understanding of system reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities;
• Hands on and creative mentality;
• A positive mindset;
• Good social and communication skills;
• You are flexible and versatile.

Foreign languages: An excellent command of English language, both verbally and in writing

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