Senior Oracle DBA

Company Description

Natixis in Portugal is fully integrated in the global organization of Natixis, a French multinational financial services firm specialized in Asset & Wealth Management, Corporate & Investment Banking, Insurance and Payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, Natixis counts nearly 16.000 employees across 38 countries. 

Based in Porto, Natixis Centre of Expertise mission is to transform traditional banking by developing innovative solutions for the bank’s business, operations and work culture worldwide, as a key driver of the company’s culture of agility and innovation. Teams of IT and Banking Support Activities work in an integrated, inclusive and transversal way, supporting all the business lines and country platforms. 

Natixis in Portugal is the best combination of a “start-up mindset” with a large, solid structure. Its unique culture gives true meaning to a “beyond banking” personality: to be a real entrepreneur, self-challenging, ever striving to excel and go that extra mile. 

Job Description

We are looking for a Oracle Database Administrator (local contract) with a DevOps mindset obsessed about automation, scalability, performance and infrastructure reliability to join our Database team. As part of this team, you will be responsible for guaranteeing database stability, performance and security. 

Main Tasks & Responsibilities: 

• Maintenance of databases in operational condition (production and non-production); 
• Analyze activity (incidents, requests) then develop and implement corrective actions; 
• Treatment of changes requests; 
• Optimization of SGDB engines and SQL code; 
• Developing scripts and any automated solutions that can ease the activity; 
• Preventive maintenance and control of these maintenances; 
• Responding to requests from developers, application administrators and infrastructures teams; 
• Participate in business projects on the design and implementation of databases (DBMS, volumetry, high availability); 
• Maintenance of operational documentation (processes, workflows, tasks, etc); 
• Realization of business continuity and availability exercises. 

Qualifications

Main Technical Requirements: 

• 4 years + of experience in the role; 
• Experience with Oracle 11g, Oracle 12c and/or Oracle 19c; 
• Solid experience in debugging and troubleshooting; 
• Experience with Oracle RAC and Single Instance; 
• Experience with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN); 
• Experience with Oracle Dataguard.

Other Requirements: 

• Good level of English - minimum B2 (mandatory); 
• Portuguese proficiency; 
• Experience with ticketing system; 
• Experience with MS-SQL, MySQL, Sybase and/or Hadoop are a plus: 
• Good team player; 
• Good communication skill. 

Additional Information

#MuchMoreThanJustAJob 

Early morning. Campo 24 de Agosto. In 4 minutes, you are clocking in at the office. After grabbing a cup of coffee and fresh fruit, pick up your laptop and choose your spot for the day. It's going to be a busy one: French class before lunch and, just after, quick medical appointment at Natixis doctor's office. 

Lunch break. Outside in the big terrace (look at your crops at the Urban Garden; ready to harvest!) or, if you feel like stretching your legs, walk downtown to grab lunch. 

Back inside. Quick sprint review (working together anywhere means virtual happy birthday to that colleague in Paris that just turned 35). The afternoon went flying (tasks, reports, calls, some jokes with your teammates). End it on a high note: just one PlayStation game or the final match for that ping-pong tournament. 

Tomorrow, you complete that certified technical training and the day after, you will work from home, taking advantage to finally do that online course on Udemy. Once you are done with your tasks for the day, you can visit the office for a board games session or show up at the rehearsal of one of Natixis bands. If that is too steady for you, meet your colleagues to surf some waves or join them in a football match.