Cubic Corporation Hiring for Senior Database Administrator – PostgreSQL/Oracle at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

Full Job Description
Business Unit:
Cubic Corporation

Company Details:
Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We’re the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in an innovative environment, we want to talk to you about your next role at Cubic! We are seeking employees inspired by technology, and motivated by the rewards of hard work, commitment, teamwork, quality, integrity, and respect. We invite you to explore opportunities with Cubic.

Job Details:
Job Summary: As part of the Global Operations Systems Team, reporting into a Senior Database Administration you will be responsible for using a variety of tools to form a critical part of maintaining and technically supporting complex and multi-platform systems utilised by millions of travellers around the world on a daily basis.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Providing database management support on an on-call basis for all Cubic business system databases (BSD’s) from PostgreSQL 9 to 15 on Azure cloud and other platforms.
Maintenance of production and development test environments including database refresh, upgrade, and migration activities.
Helps define and enforce database object development standards.
Operates in accordance with procedures and documentation for recurring database administration tasks to ISO 9001 standard.
Supports capacity planning and proactive monitoring on all BSD’s including predicting future PostgreSQL trends for hardware usage and user load.
Maintaining configuration management control over vendor supplied and Cubic developed database components.
Assists with coordination between Systems Integration, Business Applications Development, and software vendors in support of database and application development activities.
Participation in software installations, coordinating with the Systems Integration and Business Applications Development groups.
May assist in implementing database access controls, taking into account: security, efficiency, integrity, ownership and redundancy concerns.
Ensures availability and performance of the BSD’s, including Performance Tuning all PostgreSQL instance components including SQL and PL/SQL.
Responsible for problem escalation via functional leads to PostgreSQL Support and third parties as appropriate.
Participates in the implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the development and project teams and implementation of changes using Change Control Process.
Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Skills knowledge and experience:
Essential

Previous experience with 6+ Years as PostgreSQL in supporting 24×7 Operations.
Must have Oracle Database Knowledge.
Extensive experience of PostgreSQL versions from 9 to 15.
Extensive experience of Oracle from 9i to 19c.
Ability to work in a 24/7 on-call rotation if required
Logical and detailed in approach
Eager to learn with a keen interest in technology in a fast paced environment
A keen sense of teamwork and responsibility ownership

Desirable

Some experience of other databases, specifically MS Sql server, MySql.
Familiarity with Ms Windows and Linux OS and competent in their use.
Familiarity with Cloud based solutions, both MS Azure and Amazon AWS

Education and qualifications:
Essential

A degree or relevant experience in computer science or a related technical field
Desirable
ITIL awareness to Foundation Level

Personal Qualities:
Ability to work both autonomously when required and productively within a cross-functional team environment
Responsible, organised, logical thought process
Positive attitude
Team player
Diligent, with attention to detail. Able to problem solve and find effective and timely resolutions
Proactive
Organised with the ability to handle multiple projects and undertake new tasks quickly
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills with a willingness to share knowledge, coach and collaborate effectively with individuals and other departments
An enthusiasm for new technologies and their application for both business and consumers
A natural curiosity and a passion for learning new skills. A continuous improvement mindset
The tenacity to keep going when things get difficult, an optimistic and upbeat personal manner
Analytical problem solver who is able to quickly & accurately identify key issues
Approachable, adaptable and flexible and able to work on their own or as part of a team

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type:
Employee