Desired Competencies (Technical / Behavioral competency) 

Must Have: 

• Demonstrable experience of delivering Database operation teams/projects, with specific knowledge of service transition and supportability of solution in a Production environment of Oracle DB and MySQL, SQL Server administration understanding
• Demonstrable experience managing technical teams
• Understanding of Operational Acceptance, Disaster Recovery, and High Availability (HA) in a Production environment.
• Understanding of Change Management, Incident Management and Release and Configuration management processes.
• Infrastructure services delivery using offshore/onshore capabilities; an understanding of the complexities of working with teams.
• Ensures availability, security and integrity of assigned databases. 
• Resolves database performance, capacity, replication, and other distributed data issues.
• Install, patch and maintain all Oracle software. Installs and configures database management software (DBMS) including RAC and Data Guard and applicable service packs and/or patches.
• Develops and implements database maintenance plans, including performing integrity checks, updating statistics and monitoring security and hardware resource utilization.
• Advanced knowledge of Oracle RAC
• Participates in data modeling and database logical and physical design.
• Analyzes long-term database performance trends to optimize database and application performance.
• Configures database server to work with middleware, web servers and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools.
• Design and implement a backup & recovery system and have extensive hands-on experience on various RMAN Backup and Recovery Scenarios.
• Expert in provisioning and decommission of database including Instance/RAC/ASM/grid control/data guard
• Gathers and shares business requirements for their towers with the teams and ensures effective and efficient solutions are developed and implemented
• Problem solving and Decision Making - Resolve unusual or highly complex problems, with the involvement of others as required. Able to identify solutions and explore alternatives outside familiar approaches
• Result orientated - Develop logical, realistic plan to meet objectives. Tenacious and delivery focused in approach. Continually seeks to make the area in which they work more efficient and effective. Continually strives to make the area in which they work more efficient and effective.
• Excellent written and oral skills, clear and concise, keeps manager informed of work progression at sensible intervals. Engage; manage vendors and third parties as appropriate.
• Good documentation experience

Good to Have :

• Infrastructure knowledge on Data Center towers 
• Good communication skills set, Understand and clear communication to the business on impact of major incidents
• Excellent problem analysis skill set and design knowledge

Roles and Responsilibilites 

• DBA L2 Operations Support 
• DR implementation and build effort 
• Design and Architedcture 
• Work closely along with PM for DR assignment and demonstrate the implementation skills