Principal Oracle Database Administrator

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Job Purpose 

• Act as an Oracle DBA
• Support and implement corporate database activities / solutions

Principal Accountabilities:

• Manage databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security
• Independently analyse, solve, and correct issues in real-time, providing problem resolution end-to-end
• Design and implement processes to manage database configuration, for the databases themselves, and for the environments upon which they run.
• Design and document processes and procedures for use by other team members to consistently manage our database environments.
• Contribute to the implementation of automation technologies and processes to advance the team’s ability to effectively manage our Oracle database infrastructure on Oracle Cloud.
• Display mature judgment and troubleshooting skills to research issues, provide solutions, and communicate them concisely. Works independently managing ones’ own workload.
• Experience implementing technologies with enterprise-wide impact
• Perform routine, day-to-day database administrator duties in data replication, SQL tuning, application tuning, creation of database objects, and data modelling.
• Required availability for on-call rotation and off shift work.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Expert-level experience with Oracle database administration in an enterprise environment, including:

• Oracle Database software installation, patching and upgrades
• Oracle Database creation, deployment, and management on Oracle RAC.
• Experienced in administration of databases like creating and managing users, tablespaces, indexes, roles, space management, resizing, partitioning and shrinking tablespaces. Database security by restricting users by granting related privileges, roles.
• Database performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Real-world experience with Oracle RAC, Oracle ASM, Oracle Data Guard
• Database platform migrations using RMAN
• RMAN-based recovery, cloning, migration, duplication, and backups
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control administration
• Expert-level knowledge of Linux/Unix from a power-user and scripting perspective
• Must have in-depth experience working in ORACLE Real Application Cluster (RAC/ASM), RDBMS 12c/18c/19c, DATAGUARD, RMAN.
• Oracle Public Cloud experience would be highly beneficial.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering fields or equivalent experience
• 5 to 7 years of Oracle database administration experience.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to work effectively in a geographically dispersed team.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to address complex tasks, consistently deliver to project scheduled completion.

Additional Information

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at www.renesas.com. 

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.