Senior Sybase / Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)

We have an excellent opprtunity within our Houston office in the Platform Delviery Team that enables Macquarie's global activities by undertaking the design and implementation of IT infrastructure related projects and support of the platform.

Your drive to deliver will be utlizied as you are responsible for delivering solutions and support for Macquarie's evolving database environment as part of a global team. The database environment is complex, with Sybase ASE, Replication server, ECDA and IQ running on Solaris or Linux platforms and Oracle running on Solaris and Linux using both physical and VMs with Data Guard capabilities.

Your sense of owndership will be used as you take resonsibility deploying, upgrading and maintaining the database fleet, providing feedback on the health of the environment and creating automation for repeatable requirements.

Using your collaberative approach you will be on a roster together with a number of DBAs located in London, US and Asia/ANZ. as well as managing and co-ordinating a team of three other DBAs in the Houston office.

Additionally building and maintaining sound working relationships with the Macquarie business users and the wider global IT team.

Further responsibilites include :

• providing first-class relational database management systems support
• being accountable for the technical delivery of database projects and database support
• involvement in disaster recovery planning and testing when required
• involvement in the automation and manual executions of database system builds, installations, provisioning, deployment
• ongoing upgrade and maintenance of database versioning
• ensuring that database systems are built to Macquarie standards and with existing fleet meeting our compliance standards
• ensuring optimum performance and availability of Macquarie's database systems
• participation in scheduled weekend and after-hours work when requested.

You will have a minimum 10 years of relevant DBA experience with 4 years working in a global corporate environment and an expert level Database Administrator, with a strong primary skill-set MS SQL Server and SQL BI tools, Sybase ASE and Replication Server.  Sybase IQ and ECDA skills are desirable but optional.

• Experience with perl and/or shell scripting
• experience with powershell scripting on windows
• Java, Ansible or Puppet experience is desirable
• experience with code development products/practices like stash/git/branching/agile and JIRA
• strong RedHat Linux and/or Solaris skills
• strong MS Windows skills
• knowledge of ITIL practice and demonstrable experience with change management processes and procedures
• experience with VERITAS as well as SAN/disk replication products
• experience with Veritas Cluster technology
• experience with Cloud deployments (either public or private) preferred.

Core Sybase/MS SQL skills:

• Knowledge of SQL Server 2008 through to 2016.
• knowledge of SQL BI.
• knowledge of Sybase ASE 15 through to 16
• knowledge of Sybase Replication Server 15.2 and 15.7.

Plus skills in at least one of the following:

• Knowledge of Sybase MDA tables
• Knowledge of Sybase replication server counters/monitoring
• Knowledge of Sybase MSA replication
• Knowledge of ASEMon for Sybase
• Knowledge of Sybase Replication Data Assurance
• Knowledge of Sybase IQ or ECDA.

Please apply via the link.

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The Corporate Operations Group brings together specialist support services in Digital Transformation & Data, Technology, Operations, Human Resources, Business Services, Business Improvement & Strategy, and the Macquarie Group Foundation. We deliver service excellence to ensure Macquarie is open for business, deliver on transformational change, invest in our people and have deep relationships with our customers. 

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