*typical accountabilities*
- responsible for the 24/7 support of *oracle or mssql* production database services to ensure the highest standards of availability, resilience, integrity, security and performance required by the business systems.
- monitoring
- backup & restore
- database installation, creation
- user creation
- data copy
- data migration
- high availability (rac for oracle & always on for mssql)
- performance tuning
- patching
- disaster recovery setup
*essential skills*
- curious mind, good interpersonal skills, and excellent technical skills in the area of dba administration
- strong oracle or mssql database administration experience
- good in data restore/recovery techniques
- experience in performance tuning
- experience of working in a team that delivers a high availability service
- practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service
- knowledge on operating systems (win/unix/linux)
- scripting knowledge would be an added advantage
- itil knowledge is a must