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Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.\nSummary of This Role\nThe Senior Database Administrator (DBA) is a critical position responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, security, and scalability of Oracle database platforms and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments. This role provides continuous support to Production Support, Development teams, Vendor Partners, and Business Users, while also owning administrative responsibility for OCI, participating in all critical migrations, and leading the rollout of new Oracle environments. 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Executes database recovery task during a disaster recovery and/or disaster recovery exercises.\nPerforms routine maintenance such as data compression, defragmentation, dropping temp tables, clearing transaction logs, archiving inactive databases, load balancing and evaluating server hardware to provide recommendations for performance improvements.\nWorks closely with the Applications Team while performing troubleshooting to determine the source of application failures. Assists in the development of solutions to minimize the potential of future application failures. Supports the implementation of solutions.\nProduces and maintains operational database documentation, such as SQL Disaster Recovery, SQL Recovery Presentation, Naming Standards, Performance and Tuning, to ensure database configurations are well documented in preparation for disaster recovery.\nAssists in the training and familiarization of less experienced DBAs regarding company policies and procedures, techniques and current server/database configurations.\nManaging Various Oracle services under Oracle Cloud Infrastructure such as Oracle Fusion, OIC, ATP, VBCS & OAC.\nManaging underlying infrastructure of Oracle Fusion and OIC.\nKnowledge in Disaster Recovery for OIC, SFTP, ATP, VBCS & OAC Production.\nPerforming Oracle Fusion cloning activities.\nManaging the patching & maintenance cycles of Oracle Fusion and OIC.\nManaging ADMIN role in GITHUB\nQuarterly CPU patching on instances.\nPerforming migrations on requirement basis such as BIP,OIC, PL/SQL, Database Packages etc\nCreate and Follow up Service Requests with Oracle Support.\nGood to have knowledge in Experience in CI/CD pipeline (DevOps)\nSupport to multiple teams while also owning on administrative responsibility for OCI, participating in all critical migrations, and leading the rollout of new Oracle environments.\nAdminister OCI IAM, policies, compartments, security lists, NSGs, and Vault.\nDesign, deploy, and manage OCI environments across multiple regions and availability domains.\nTroubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, networking, and performance issues.\nWhat Are We Looking For in This Role?\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree\nRelevant Experience or Degree in: No degree specified\nTypically Minimum 4 Years Relevant Exp\nWith the Installation, Customization, Testing and Maintenance of database systems within a production environment.\n Preferred Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree\nIT related field\nWhat Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?\nSkills / Knowledge - A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This job is the fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position.\nJob Complexity - Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.\nSupervision - Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments.\nDBMS Knowledge - Extensive Knowledge of multiple database disciplines and technologies\nDBMS Utilities - Extensive Knowledge of multiple utilities utilized to manage, monitor and maintain database systems\nDBMS Recovery - Extensive Knowledge of recovery technologies for local and geographically disperse systems\nGlobal Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. 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