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Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters-at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.\nAt IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.\nWe celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. 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Join IFS.\n A Database Administrator (DBA) in the Database Services Team will design, develop and deliver common processes and automate technical tasks for the Unified Support teams to use in their daily duties, act as an experienced DBA resource to help address issues to ensure the availability, security, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring of client database systems, act as a final point of escalation for challenging issues with our database services, support Cloud Services and other teams during investigations and corrective actions during problem management investigations.\nDBAs in the CCOE Database Services Team at IFS proactively interact and work alongside other resolver groups (R&D, Solutions Architects, Monitoring, Network, platform vendors, etc) as appropriate to resolve issues and requests related to the Cloud platform and also provide guidance and feedback to improve the IFS product set in future releases. The DBAs also provide database advice to IFS remote and on-premise customers where required.\nA DBA in the CCOE Database Services Team at IFS is key to ensuring highly available, robust and secure database systems and own the overall design, build, availability, performance and general support of all databases which underpin the applications offered by IFS. The DBAs support existing database engines whilst engaging in the design, deployment & delivery of new database tools and services to further enhance availability, performance and security of our database platforms in order to provide an outstanding experience and reliable database services for all our customers.\nCommon to DBAs in the CCOE Database Services Team at IFS is their pride in building robust database systems, desire to support & collaborate with other IFS teams, focus on customer experience to respond within SLAs, curiosity to fix root cause problems, thinking with an engineering mindset to constantly drive improved performance and security underpinned by standardization, engineering automation of database tasks to avoid ad-hoc/human error, as well as ambition to deliver new tools and technology to support making the IFS enterprise software services in the Cloud robust and self-supportive.\nThe responsibilities include:\nDaily DB OperationsDesign common processes for Unified Support teams to use in their day to day duties supporting and maintaining our Cloud database services.\nAct as an experienced DBA resource to help perform some of those daily duties when the need arises to address issues with client systems\nAct as a point of escalation for challenging issues with our database services\nWork as needed to support Unified Support teams during investigations and corrective actions during problem management investigations.\nWork with R&D alongside the CSA to provide guidance and feedback to improve the IFS product set in future releases.\n\nBackup SolutionsImplement, in conjunction with Unified Support teams, agreed backup solutions for the IFS Application suite to satisfy our own and our customers’ needs\n\nPerformance TuningDesign processes and approaches for the Unified Support teams to manage performance issues in our cloud environments\nWork with the CSA and R&D teams to address performance issues through both short term and long-term methods\n\nDisaster RecoveryImplement and test regularly, in conjunction with the CSA, RnD and Unified Support teams, any agreed disaster recovery solutions and ensure the solution suits the needs of IFS and our customers\n\nMonitoringImplement appropriate tooling to monitor and manage the database availability within our cloud services.\nDesign processes and approaches for the Unified Support teams to manage availability issues in production environments.\n\nAutomation and ToolingWork with the Unified Support, CSA and Automation teams to design automation to reduce time and overhead for common tasks wherever possible.\n\nExperience\nMandatoryAt least 5 years’ in-depth experience performing Oracle Database administration functions in cloud computing or enterprise IT service delivery\nAt least 3 years’ experience writing shell scripts to automate repeatable tasks\nDemonstrated knowledge of cloud computing services or IT service management methodologies and best practices\nExperience in a modern ticket/service desk tooling such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Desk or a similar tool\n\nA formal qualification (degree, HND, etc.) in Computer Science/Information Technology is useful but not mandatory.\nITIL qualifications would be useful but are not mandatory.\nVendor provided technical certification (CCNA, OCP, MCSA, etc.) would be useful though not mandatory.\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills\nAbility to work to deadlines, targets and needs of the role\nAbility to manage own time, efficiently and effectively\nTechnical Skills\nExperience of implementing and managing critical production systems, especially in the cloud, including a strong awareness of customer-driven priorities and commercial pressures is essential. \nExperience of supporting multi-tenant Oracle databases (CDB/PDB)\nExperience administering Oracle databases (minimum 19c) on Linux and Windows operating systems\nStrong technical experience with performance tuning - AWR/ASH/ADDM/TKPROF/tracing sessions, etc - in a multi-tier architecture\nGood technical experience using OEM for various database administration purposes.\nStrong technical experience with backup/restore - RMAN, data pump export/import.\nStrong technical experience with disaster recovery; dataguard - setup and troubleshooting.\nExperience with database cloning - RMAN active duplicate\nStrong technical experience writing linux shell scripts: bash (knowledge of powershell scripting and windows command also nice to have)\nTechnical experience with database upgrades (12c to 19c and above) and patching\nKnowledge of database encryption - row level, backups, etc\nExposure to 3rd party monitoring systems, e.g. Nagios, Prometheus, ELK\nExposure to Java driven Cloud/SaaS systems including the following technologies is essential: Oracle WebLogic middleware, Oracle/Apache HTTP Servers, etc.\nExperience working with ticketing systems, such as Service Now, JIRA, etc\nExperience working within a strict change management framework.\nExposure to DevOps CI/CD tools - GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc.\nKnowledge of Container technology - Kubernetes (AKS)\nBasic understanding of Cloud Technologies - Azure, AWS or GCP\nNEC-IFS Strategic Partnership\nRequired\nExcellent English and Japanese communication skills, both written and oral\nMust live in Japan (within commutable distance to Tokyo)\nThe successful candidate will have a proven track record working with a wide range of teams including operations, R&D, consulting and support services. 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