Apps Associates

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT- ORACLE DBA [REMOTE]

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Founded in 2002, Apps Associates is a company acknowledged for our expertise, our values, a history of innovation and a strong commitment to our customers and employees. We offer the breadth of services and scale to make a difference while always treating every customer with the attention that they deserve. Today, we have over 1350 employees with exceptional retention of both staff and clients.

Apps Associates was formed based on the belief that there has to be a better way to deliver IT-centric services and solutions. It was founded on the principle of partnership with our customers based on trust, value, innovation and continuous improvement.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Our bustling Infrastructure Managed Services DBA Consulting and Support Team – GDC Hyderabad, India, is seeking Associate consultant to lead Managed Services BAU and their projects. Our Associate Consultants act as an Oracle DBA Consultant providing best-practice guidance on Oracle E-Business Suite and Database Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Automation on Core/Apps/EBS processes and design to our portfolio of global clients fulfilling their environment technical landscape requirements.

PERKS

·        Remote Work

·        Flexible PTO

·        Paid Training & Certifications

·        Exposure to the Latest Technology

·        Dynamic Teammates, Innovative Projects & MORE!

CULTURE

You’ll be joining a group of highly-motivated people who understand that culture is everything. We live by our Apps Core Values.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

As Oracle Apps DBA, able to implement Patching, Cloning, Backup and restoring RMAN. Having experience in Oracle Databases 10G to 19C, ERP Applications V12.x & good to have experience in Performance tuning.

• The Oracle Applications DBA will be responsible for the overall management and maintenance of Oracle EBS R12.x applications & database, and other non-ERP Oracle databases.
• Database and EBS Upgrades from 10.x to 19.x and 11i to R12.x is added advantage
• Database and EBS Platform Migration
• Database,EBS and EPM/OBIEE/ETL Migration to any public cloud
• The DBA will provide technical and operational DBA support for the day to day operations on ERP oracle database, ERP applications, and non-ERP Oracle databases for data warehouse and other applications
• The DBA will partner with technical, functional, development and business groups to ensure that database performance standards adhere to enterprise service level agreements

WHAT YOU NEED FOR THIS POSITION

·        Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, 1-2 years of cloud migration expertise and 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience

·        Professional attitude, with a growth mindset seeking to drive change and improvement in all aspects of the role

• Working experience on Oracle EBS 12.2.x is mandatory
• Experience managing Oracle Active Data Guard, RMAN backup/recovery is mandatory
• Basics in any public cloud like AWS,Oracle and Azure
• Ensure the appropriate patches are applied to Development, Test and Training environments using adop and opatch.
• Oracle ERP DB and application cloning/refresh, installation, configuration, patching, upgrades on AIX and Linux.
• Manage Shared application tier environment.
• Design and implement Backup and recovery policies and procedures
• Assist with System Monitoring and Tuning
• Work on projects as needed in close coordination with Architects, PMs, Application architects, Development teams etc.
• Support the install, configuration, and upgrade Oracle eBusiness Suite (eBS) applications version 12.2.x
• Manage databases on Exadata
• Advanced knowledge of Database Administration of large databases, Oracle E-business Suite R12 application and technology stack in a multi-tier environment.
• Support database issues in production, including on-call support as and when needed
• Support application development and performance test teams on database related issues
• Strong shell, sql, pl/sql scripting skills will be an added advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge in Performance Tuning of both Database and applications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·        Self-motivated and independent with the ability to effectively listen and communicate

·        Willingness to join a dynamic, multinational team and agree to support 24X7 client environment with rotational shifts

·        Values diversity of thought and collaboration

·        Ability to continue to grow and learn despite existing expertise

WHY APPS?

Apps Associates has a culture of extreme expertise built on trust and collaboration while ensuring competency and excellence which helps us build long term partnerships with our clients. This extreme expertise is only possible because of a pool of highly motivated, passionate and talented individuals who help address client’s core needs and thereby make a significant and positive difference in customer’s lives. In addition to excellent benefits. Apps Associates provides our employees with a robust platform for training, professional development and the ability to get certified which helps us continuously adapt, learn and maintain flexibility while delivering complex customer engagements.

Note: Nothing in this job description restricts managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability veteran status or other protected class. Apps Associates is an at-will employer.  Nothing in this job description shall be interpreted to be in conflict with or to eliminate or modify the at will employment status.

Location : Work From Home PAN India (Hyderabad)

Timings : 4 PM IST – 1 AM IST (MUST)

Major Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience as a Site Reliability Engineer with a mix of data center and cloud operations experience.
• AWS Experience (+3 years within the last 5 years)
• Service Mesh experience either in supporting or creating the infrastructure in AWS. (Kong Service Mesh preferred)
• Kubernetes experience (+2 years in the last 4 years) AWS EKS Preferred.
• Experience with Helm charts for EKS configuration
• Experience with IAC and system configuration orchestration (Terraform and Ansible preferred)
• Use of Python with Ansible
• Experience with networking and networking configurations
• Experience with Linux including Ubuntu and Amazon Linux versions

Bonus Knowledge

• Kafka
• VMware
• .Net Framework Applications
• Microsoft Windows

Role: Oracle Apps DBA Consultant 

Exp: 4-6 years

As Oracle Apps DBA, able to implement Patching, Cloning, Backup and restoring RMAN. Having experience in Oracle 11i RAC, ERP 12.2 & experience in Performance tuning.

Responsibilities:

• · The Oracle Applications DBA will be responsible for the overall management and maintenance of Oracle EBS R12.2 applications & database, and other non-ERP Oracle databases.
• · The DBA will provide technical and operational DBA support for the day to day operations on ERP oracle database, ERP applications, and non-ERP Oracle databases for data warehouse and other applications.
• · The DBA will partner with technical, functional, development and business groups to ensure that database performance standards adhere to enterprise service level agreements