Senior Oracle Database Administrator - Exadata

Experience: 8+ yearsLocation: Bangalore/Hyderabad/Pune/NoidaAs a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.As a Principal Support Engineer, you will offer strategic technical support to assure the highest level of customer satisfaction. A primary focus is to create/utilize automated technology and instrumentation to diagnose, document, and resolve/avoid customer issues. You are expected to be an expert member of the technical problem solving/problem avoidance team, routinely sought after to address extremely complex, critical customer issues. Services may be frequently provided by on-site customer visits.Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. 7 years experience with Core products or eight years experience with Applications products, BS Computer Science/Management Information Systems/Science/ Engineering/Math/Physics/Chemistry with 3.0 GPA OR (for Applications) proven professional/ technical experience, i.e., demonstrating an understanding of Applications at a functional and technical level (preferably Oracle).ResponsibilitiesGlobal Customer Support - Exadata/ EXADATA -OCIJob DescriptionWe are looking to recruit a Principal DBA to the established Oracle Database Exadata support team. The successful candidate will be located in India. The team's main responsibility is to troubleshoot highly complex technical issues related to the Oracle Exadata and within areas like Real Application Clusters, High Availability, Data Guard, Corruption, Backup and Recovery, RMAN, Performance, Memory Management, Parallel query, Query tuning, Storage, ASM, Security, Networking, Enterprise Manager etc. The Engineer should have good hands on experience on UNIX, Linux and/or Solaris platforms. The selected candidates are expected to working partnership with customers, other support engineers and developers to deliver a superior ownership experience to the customer. The selected candidate will have opportunities to become an Expert / Guru in Database technologies. The candidate will be widely regarded as a subject matter expert in their current role and will demonstrate the ability to resolve complex problems or identify acceptable workarounds. He/she should be able to perform their assigned duties with a great degree of independence requiring minimal direction. The Engineer is expected to be a key member of the technical problem solving as well as problem avoidance team, routinely sought after to address extremely complex, critical customer issues.RESPONSIBILITIESThe main role of a Support engineer is to troubleshoot highly complex technical problems (Oracle Database) requiring high level of technical expertiseWorks directly with customersParticipates in weekend rotation and shiftsParticipates in initiatives that improve overall product and documentation qualityParticipates in product/platform testingDrives improvements in product qualityServes as Situation Manager on highly sensitive Customer issuesConsults with Management in directing resolution of critical Customer situationsConsults with Customers on complex use of Oracle productsAchieves knowledge transfer through development and delivery of training, knowledge sessions, mentoring etc.Creation/Review of Knowledge ArticlesContribute significantly towards the "My Oracle Support" Database communitiesAnalyzes work load, determines best practices and implements changes to improve productivityProactively contribute to increasing the team efficiency by sharing knowledge, providing feedback about best practices, writing tools / utilitiesWho are we looking for?QUALIFICATIONSTechnical degree i.e. BE / B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA / M.Sc. in Computer Science / Engineering / Math / Physics / Chemistry or proven professional and technical experience.Greater than 10 years of industry experienceTECHNICAL SKILLSWe are looking for a core technical person, who has hands-on Database administration experience on UNIX/Linux and/or worked as L3 level support engineer and/or having equivalent knowledge. You should have expertise in Real Application Cluster (RAC), Dataguard & ASM/Storage areas. Operating systems expertise / SA &general awareness on rest of the areas mentioned below, will be an added advantageDatabase architecture knowledge and administrationExperience with clustering technologies from different vendorsThorough understanding of the Oracle database featuresExtensive hands on interaction with large Database management systemsBackup & Recovery, RMAN, knowledge of various restore & recovery scenarios.Performance Tuning, Parallel query, Query tuningNetworkingPartitioningDatabase SecurityEnterprise ManagerGeneral UNIX/Linux concepts & AdministrationManaging Kernel Parameters, Partitioning and File systemsPERSONAL ATTRIBUTESSelf-driven and result orientedStrong Problem solving/analytical skillsStrong customer support and client relation skillsEffective communication (verbal & written)Focus on relationships (internal & external)Strong willingness to learn new things and share them with othersInfluencing/negotiatingTeam playerCustomer focusedConfident and decisiveEnthusiasmFlexibilityCoaching/knowledge transfer AbilityAbility to write technical Bulletins PRB