Senior Platform Engineer - Database Admin

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Senior Platform Engineer - Database Admin

• Provide world‑class support and expertise to all of Mastercard’s Database environments.
• Master Card’s Database Architects set the direction for the enterprise leadership to design and build highly available, scalable and efficient solutions
• Represent Master Card’s Data Architecture team as a subject matter expert.
• Continually look for opportunities to create efficiencies and provide expertise to integrate technologies and platforms into current environments
• Provide leadership and contribute to technology roadmaps to support Master Card’s vision
• What technologies do you have hands‑on experience with, and what degree is that experience?
• In your current role, what new database technologies have you integrated into your current environment and how?
• What experience do you have with data migration and integration from multiple systems?

• Configure and set up new database installations
• Review existing configurations and installations and provide design decisions for improvements to platform environments
• Implement backup strategies and performs upgrades and patching
• Develop architectures to migrate data and entire databases;
  Implement and deliver on the architecture migrating databases.
• Perform production‑level support and be part of the on‑call rotation when required.
• Work with RDBMS vendors and their respected support channels when required.
• Work with multiple application teams and developers
• Lead and set direction for Master Card’s use of best practices and application database solutions.
• Work with management to plan and implement new strategies including new tools and products that provide data services.
• Lead efforts to identify, communicate and implement new strategies and represents Data Architecture in high level planning and long‑term direction.
• Advance knowledge of Oracle middleware (OEM/ODI/OWB/APEX).
• Advance knowledge of Oracle physical database tuning.
• Intermediate/Advance knowledge of SQL tuning background.
• Working knowledge of backup/recovery
• Working PL/SQL coding background.
• Advance implementation knowledge of partitioning.
• Advanced knowledge of Oracle RAC, Cluster Resource software and Oracle 12C features.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information systems or equivalent experience.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Displays excellent collaborative skills to facilitate cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision seeking direction as required
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly knowledgeable of RDBMS architecture and internal database workings
• Forward thinking infrastructure automation and scripting skills.
• Leads in managing client expectations and communicates proactively.
• Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies and time zones
• Proficient with Oracle RDBMS installation and configuration.
• Proficient with Oracle Enterprise Monitoring and alerting tools/processes
• Proficient in setup, configuration and monitoring of Oracle & Postgre
  
  SQL binary and logical data replication solutions (binary streaming, xDB Multi Master replication, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Golden Gate)
• Proficient with collecting diagnostics and tuning Oracle as well as SQL tuning
• Proficient with Oracle & Postgres procedural languages (PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python) and SQL
• Proficient with Linux (Red Hat)
• Working knowledge of Data Modelling.
• Working knowledge of scripting languages, Bash, KSH, perl etc

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