Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Job description
Sportserve forms part of a remarkable group of B2C sports betting and B2B sportsbook technology companies, focused on delivering first class sports betting experiences and casino products for our users worldwide. Along with Sportion, TechSpirit, Standard Focus and Sportelligent, we are the driving force behind the world renowned sports betting company and our flagship brand, Dafabet.

Since launching our global hiring initiative, we now employ over 2,000 people worldwide, offering exciting career paths in Technology, Trading, Operations and Media. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and international culture that embraces the global community and acts locally. We offer office based, hybrid and remote work on permanent and consultancy contracts all over the world, making us the true global employer of choice.

When it comes to being successful at Sportserve, there's more to it than just being really good at the technical stuff. It's also your ability to be an awesome problem solver. And here's the thing, we totally get that we can't all be experts in everything, right? So, it's all about having that thirst for knowledge and being passionate about learning. You'll also need amazing attention to detail, so if something seems off, you won't rest until you've figured out what's going on. We see ourselves as a cool group of people who love coming up with new ideas and making things happen. As long as you have a true passion for creating awesome stuff, you'll fit right in.

What you'll be getting up to:
• Enforces database best practices and follows up on inconsistencies.
• Performs routine reviews of databases and systems to ensure acceptable levels of performance.
• Reports problem performance areas and recommendations for improvement.
• Anticipate hardware requirements and storage capacity planning for Development, Testing, Perf, Staging, and Production for scalable database growth and performance.
• Follows up on recommendations and actively pushes for implementation as appropriate.
• Understands and applies database concepts such as database definitions, parameters, database component placement, reorganisation, access methods and security definitions.
• Complete tasks deliver projects on-time and to the highest standards.
• Understand all technologies used in the team and be able to assist where needed.
• Critically analyse incidents affecting the databases, in order to decide where and what improvements are needed.
• Test backup and recovery scenarios, formulate disaster recovery procedures
• Be able to install, maintain, support/troubleshoot predominantly Oracle products and help our business make best use of the technology.
• Troubleshoot and suggest solutions for database application issues across production, test and development environments.
• Provide input into architecture and design.
• Configure and install from scratch Oracle database servers in nominal to complex configurations.

Required General Skills And Experience
• Good oral and written English communication skills.
• Be flexible to support the database systems outside of working hours during major sport events (in ROTA with his peers and team mates).
• Work according to Agile development team (Scrum) practices.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-changing and fast-integrating business environment.
• Bachelor 's degree.

Required Tech Skills And Experience
• 3+ years of experience focused on Oracle DBA administration in medium to large corporate environments.
• Proven experience of Oracle 1+c, RAC 1+c, ASM 1+c, RMAN 1+c, DataGuard 1+c.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL and SQL Tuning being able to provide advice and support to development teams.
• Proactively monitor and optimize Oracle databases including running applications for better performance.
• Being able to verify/tune stored procedures and triggers Experience with DB utilities such as exp, IMP, SQL loader, expdp, impdp.
• Experience on Exadata Database Systems and knowledge of key Exadata architecture.
• Good Knowledge on OEM Cloud Control and EM Express.
• Solid knowledge of Linux OS and shell scripting.
• Applications in English please

Diversity Inclusion

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