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Company Overview Markit is a financial information services company with more than 1,100 employees in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Over 1,500 financial institutions use our independent services to manage risk, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements. Markit was founded in 2001 as the first independent source of credit derivative pricing. Today, our data, valuations and trade processing services are regarded as the market standard in the global financial markets. Our clients include investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies. We provide them with round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Dallas, White Plains, Toronto, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney. Markit was the fastest growing private company in the UK in 2008 (Source: 2008 Real Business/LDC Hot 100.)
Position summary
A Production DBA role with responsibility within the Infrastructure / Operations team in a fast moving, innovative, and demanding environment. Duties & accountabilities To include:
24x7 support for existing and future Oracle 10g (Release 2)/11 RAC and non-RAC production databases on Solaris and Linux;
installations and upgrades, including DEV and QA instances;
capacity planning;
working with Dev groups on application and database configuration and tuning;
maintaining detailed documentation.
Business Competencies
Education and experience
Degree or equivalent in ideally a numerical subject
Previous solid, hands-on experience of the following is a must:
Oracle 10g (setup, maintenance, upgrades)
Oracle Performance Analysis and Tuning
Oracle Clusterware installation & Configuration
Oracle ASM
Providing 24x7 services, encompasing:
High Availability (RAC)
Backup & Recovery
Disaster Recovery (standby databases, including non-'Data Guard Broker' configurations)
Storage Management
Continuous Operations
Production support, problem diagnostics, and problem solving Experience with the following would be a plus:
Sybase ASE and Replication Server Good OS skills (scripting, troubleshooting)
Commercial Awareness
Ability to understand business objectives and focus and prioritize multiple projects accordingly. Personal competencies
Personal impact
Willingness to take ownership of Production issues is a must
A proven focus on proactive issue avoidance highly desirable
Communication
Ability to communicate with both technical and business people in language they understand essential.
Must be able to interact with authority on database issues
Teamwork
Must be able to work effectively with other Operations groups (network, server) in resoving issues
Needs to be able to project a strong professional work ethic onto other team members Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis. If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion. Please state in your covering letter that you are eligible to work in the location that we are seeking to make this appointment. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We kindly and respectfully request agencies not to submit applications.
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