Job Application

A position has arisen for an SAP/Sybase ASE DBA who has experience supporting multi-server enterprise environments. This person will be a member of the L3 global distributed database service team who provide follow the Sun 24x7 firm-wide container-level support for 10,000s of mission critical ASE databases across the production, qa and test environments.

Primary Responsibilities:
The role will require the successful candidate to participate in all aspects of database administration including but not limited to
* Providing SAP Sybase ASE and Replication Server technical expertise and consultancy to application development and support teams
* Outage/incident management from initial troubleshoot/resolution though to root cause analysis and driving subsequent corrective measures
* In depth performance and tuning
* Handling ticket/alert escalations from the DBA L1 and L2 groups to the L3 team
* Project work including migrations, immutable backups, version upgrades, operational acceptance testing for new SAP ASE features/products being engineering by the DBA group.
* Scripting, automation and developing self service tools
* Defining/reviewing operational best practice and writing standard operational procedure documentation
* Participating in the weekend oncall support rota.

Skills required:
* Strong database administration of SAP Sybase ASE versions up to and including ASE 16 ideally in a Linux environment.
* Expertise in Replication Server and administering large scale complex replication topologies
Performance and tuning:
o Ability to use tools such as Sysmon and MDA tables to identity instance level bottlenecks and provide corresponding configuration recommendations
o Ability to read and understand query plans, understand optimizer decisions and provide recommendations for SQL/Index tuning.
o Strong TSQL language knowledge
o Advanced ASE Optimizer troubleshooting
* Intermediate knowledge of Unix/Linux
* Intermediate Python/Perl/Shell or another Scripting language and a proven ability to automate DBA tasks
* Must be able to work with command line tools
* Ability to work in a high-pressure environment on mission critical production databases systems
* Excellent communication skills (including strong written and spoken English)
* Ability to multi-task
* Excellent problem-solving skills
* Service focused with ability to build relationships with customers of the DBA group

Skills Desired:
* Prior experience of the HVR Change Data Capture replication product is a particular bonus
* Exposure to Sybase MSA/Data Assurance/Workload Manager
* Knowledge of another RDBMS product ideally IBM DB2 LUW or Oracle
* Basic understanding of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
* Knowledge of ITIL frameworks
* Knowledge of ServiceNow

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