Commerz Global Service Solutions Hiring! Full Time Senior Exadata Administrator l Penang in Pulau Pinang - Ricebowl

Job Purpose:

As a Senior Exadata Infrastructure Administrator, you will be a part of a growing international team based in Kuala Lumpur Center mainly supporting on-premise Exadata engineered systems. We are seeking candidates with wide range of expertise and skills in Exadata infrastructure field such as day-to-day administration, performance tuning, InfiniBand network, ROCi infrastructure, storage cells configuration and monitoring, Backup/restore and other Exadata HW configuration know-how. You will be mentoring other Exadata infrastructure administrators sharing your expertise and work in a big database operations team.

Key Activities:

• Exadata components Administration daily support and corresponding configuration according to vendors best practices.
• Receive alerts from Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and monitor performance thresholds.
• Review system performance, CPU, memory and I/O on all Exadata nodes/VMs for unusual trends.
• Apply Oracle Exadata System Software bundle patches or upgrades, and RDMA Network Fabric switch firmware upgrades.
• Apply Oracle Database patches, Oracle Grid Infrastructure patches or upgrades in cooperation with the Oracle Database admins.
• Provide operational support, including capacity planning, system performance analysis, and resource utilization monitoring.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to Exadata infrastructure administration procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting steps.
• Connect to Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM), verify current system state, identify hardware issue or restart system, and review logs for root cause analysis.
• Inspect network interfaces for errors or dropped packets, check if any switches have restarted.
• Support system backup and recovery activities, ensuring appropriate backup strategies and disaster recovery plans are in place.
• Configuration settings for Oracle Exadata database servers, InfiniBand Network Fabric switches, and other components; changing configuration settings should be reviewed for potential impact.
• Create PHP, Python, Shell or Perl scripting.
• Participate in an on-call rotation schedule to ensure 24/7 availability and response to critical incidents.
• Configure cluster and non-cluster targets.
• Allocate system storage and plan future storage requirements for database provisioning and maintenance of storage disks and grid disks.
• Configure storage disks for RAC implementation.
• Ensure compliance with data protection regulations.

Essential Skills:

• At least 10 years of extensive experience working in Exadata infrastructure administration
• End to end implementation of Enterprise Manager plugins for Exadata
• Extensive hands-on experience in Exadata engineered systems storage cell administration maintenance tasks by using cellcli/dcli utilities
• Problem analysis resolution and error debugging including skills in raising support requests with vendors.
• Extensive experience in applying latest bundle patches for Exadata
• Good knowledge in Exadata monitoring by ILOM, KVM, and using Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Profound skills in Oracle's HA availability solutions (Data Guard and RAC)
• Good knowledge in RMAN backup and recovery concepts
• Good expertise in working with Oracle Support to identify and resolve critical issues
• Capacity planning and space management analysis
• Oracle's ASM filesystem management profound knowledge
• Extensive expertise and knowledge of cell disks, grid disks and ASM intelligent placement
• Extensive expertise and knowledge of InfiniBand network management tasks
• Extensive expertise and knowledge of Exadata smart storage capabilities, HCC, smart flash cache and Exadata storage indexes
• Extensive expertise in applying Exadata bundle patches, storage cells, InfiniBand switch patching
• Expertise in implementation of IORM and intradatabase resource management
• Expertise in configuring Exadata server metrics, thresholds and alerts
• Profound expertise in using Exacheck, ADRCI, Imagehistory, OSWatcher

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge in area of Oracle Database administration is preferred
• Experience in software methodology, processes and quality assurance
• Knowledge in the area of IT security
• Profound interest in new technologies and self-motivated troubleshooting

Personal Skills:

• Goal-oriented and organised working methods
• Good analytical skills

Critical Skills/Work Attitude:

• English language skills
• Teamwork
• Engineered systems technology knowledge

Education:

• Official acknowledged university / college qualifications
• Certified corresponding post education or certified training in Exadata infrastructure implementation areas.