Rhodes, NSW, Australia
9 days ago
Senior Progress DBA

What success looks like in this role:

Primary Responsibilities:

Proactively monitor databases and system health and performance and recommend changes to enhance overall system performance and operation.

Ensure daily overnight processes for data load and refreshes occur on schedule.

Respond to incidents promptly and resolve within SLAs.

Enhance existing processes and practices through automation including system database tasks, streamline processes, and perform standard administration functions as needed to maintain the database environments.

Create documentation to support deployment and ongoing operations.

Build and deploy changes into all environments including database, code, application, and configuration updates.

Maintain the security and configuration of the Progress database and application environment including patching and enhancements.

Manage scheduled jobs and other processes daily.

Perform environment data refreshes and ensuring data masking is applied.

Manage incident, changes, and problems through Jira.

Disaster Recovery planning, testing and execution.

Being in the financial services industry, adherence to our security and compliance procedures including timely completion of all required training is critical.

Secondary Responsibilities:

Ensure ITIL practices are followed.

Ensure best practice security and configuration is applied to all activities.

Ensure that all deliverables are completed accurately and on time.

Perform RCA of incidents and work towards permanent resolution.

Technical documentation of all processes and procedures in Confluence.

On call and afterhours work will be required.

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You will be successful in this role if you have:

Must Haves:

5+ years’ experience working in a similar role within the IT Service Provider / Mid-Large corporate environment.

Experience with managing and tuning Progress databases and applications in a complex enterprise environment.

Strong understanding of Linux operating systems and physical database design.

Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to follow through on problem resolution.

Experience with code development including deployment, compilation, testing and following an SDLC.

Experience with 4GL programming and Linux/KSH scripting.

Should be an Australian Citizen or a Permanent Resident of Australia.

Good to Have / Desirable:

Experience with user access management.

Experience with data masking.

Experience with database dump and load.

Solid understanding of database security and ability to design and implement security measures.

Desirable to have experience with event and notification platforms such as SEQ, Splunk.

Desirable to have experience in Financial Services but not essential.

Other Skills:

Ability to clearly articulate issues and solutions to both engineers and management, provide clear options and recommendations.

Must show initiative, be driven, can forward plan and think bigger picture.

Must have excellent time management and prioritization skills.

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