Airlines IT

Description:

This is a DBA role largely responsible for providing operational database services to the Ryanair. Some of the primary responsibilities of this role would include owning, tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests, fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs, reviewing service related reports (e.g: database backups, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure service related issues are identified and resolved within established SLAs, responding to database related alerts and escalations and working with database engineering to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.

This DBA role requires a service oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with the SLAs, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes.

Requirements:

We are looking for a person who:

Has 8+ years of experience in database development and support in database environments
Strong experience in more than one of the following : SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, CouchDB (or other NoSQL DBs)
Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, connectivity issues, security issues etc.
Experience in Performance Tuning, Query Optimization using monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Ability to detect and troubleshoot Database Server related CPU,memory,I/O, disk space and other resource contention.
Strong knowledge of backups, restores, recovery models, database shrink operations, Clustering, Database mirroring, Replication.
Expert experience in implementing operational automation.
SQL Development – ability to write and troubleshoot SQL Code and design ( stored procs, functions, tables, views, triggers, indexes, constraints )
Preferred candidates would also meet the following criteria:
Documentation skills for processes and procedures ( creating KBs, runbooks, topology etc )
Knowledge in a scripting language – Windows based and/or Linux stack

If you meet the above criteria and have the energy and commitment to join our exciting organisation, then we want to hear from you!
Full details:
Location Dublin, Ireland
Employment type Full-time
Industry Airlines/Aviation
Function Information Technology
Experience Mid-Senior level
Education Bachelor's Degree

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