Oracle Database Administrator

About the Company

We are Zetes, a global leader in Solution Integration specialising in Supply Chain Optimisation and Identity Solutions. Our Goods ID Division helps companies achieve agility, visibility and traceability across their connected supply chain. Our People ID Division helps Governments to improve their services to the population in the areas of Legal Identity, Mobile ID and Border Control. Our solutions aim to improve governance, public policy, and people’s lives through efficient Identity management (physical and digital) and to secure the traveller’s journey every step of the way. Founded in 1984, Zetes is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and has more than 1,300 employees in 22 countries across EMEA.

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About the Role

Our People ID Division helps Governments to improve their services to the population in the areas of Legal Identity, Mobile ID and Border Control. Our solutions aim to improve governance, public policy, and people’s lives through efficient Identity management (physical and digital) and to secure the traveller’s journey every step of the way. As a DBA specifically you provide a critical contribution to all installations and services provided by the company. You keep up-to-date, on the top of your field in an ever changing, always improving area of data repositories. You are working together with your colleague DBA, operations and infrastructure IT team to manage and maintain our Oracle database environment. In our solutions and services, we are not limited to using Oracle only, we also have in use Maria DB clusters (Galera) and Postgres. For some instances we also experiment with NoSQL repos like CouchDB.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and manage databases & other flavours
• Design and implement database solutions
• Provide support to users (e.g. developers/devops/IT/OPS using the DB)
• Perform database backups and restores
• Monitor database performance
• Tune the database’s performance when needed
• Ensure database security, proper access rights, encrypt data
• Troubleshoot all kinds of database problems
• Stay up-to-date on database technologies
• Participate in business growth and innovation for the future

Qualifications

• Master-level (or equivalent by experience)
• +5 years of experience as an Oracle Database Administrator

Required Skills

• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager and other Oracle tools
• Expertise with Oracle database technologies
• Data modeling and database design
• Database schema creation and management
• Backup and recovery
• Ensuring data integrity
• Performance tuning
• Security
• Disaster recovery
• Proficient in SQL and PL/SQL
• Experience with DB clustering technologies is a definite plus
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Willingness to learn on other technologies such as Maria DB clusters and Postgres
• Auto-didact (while we do invest in your growth, and applaud you for following courses, we see that being an auto-didact as part of your nature, is an indispensable asset)

Preferred Skills

• Well-organized, structured, and detail-oriented team player.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an eye for ergonomics and usability.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for installation and training, mainly in Europe and Africa.
• Ability to work in a challenging and dynamic environment with ongoing training opportunities.

Pay range and compensation package

A competitive salary and benefits package (including a car option)

Technically a very challenging job experience

A very nice team with pleasant and engaging colleagues.

A chance to make a real impact on the company’s success

Equal Opportunity Statement

We believe that the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds and experiences. We are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can thrive, grow and elevate.

Due to a high volume of applications received, we are unable to contact each applicant individually regarding the status of their application". Only applicants eligible to work in Belgium will be accepted.

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