Oracle Database Administrator

Oracle Database Administrator At a glance

ABN AMRO Clearing Information Technology is an organization with a global focus, is self-supporting, running its own projects, applications and hosting them from its own data centres across the globe. Architecture and portfolio management are global domains. IT development, maintenance, support and IT operations are provided by three regional organizations : IT Europe, IT US and IT APAC. Considering Information Technology as a main part of clearing services, the IT systems and processes have to meet ABN AMRO Clearing strategy demands and internal and external regulations.

Your job

As a Database Administrator at ABN AMRO Clearing, you will be tasked with ensuring the availability and performance of our Clearing database environment. You will manage non-production, production, and disaster recovery environments, working closely with support team colleagues to optimize hardware resources. Proactive monitoring will be a key responsibility, minimizing downtime and conducting regular trend analysis for capacity planning.

You'll oversee enhancements, maintenance, and upgrades to the database environment, collaborating with business, architecture, development, and technical teams to manage and implement changes. Analyzing potential hardware problems before contacting third-party support is crucial, as is acting as a point of contact for escalations. You'll efficiently resolve issues, document solutions, and liaise with users for satisfactory oues.

Automation is vital, and you'll develop tasks to reduce manual intervention while investigating methods for performance optimization. Maintaining system documentation and ensuring changes are approved via Change Control methods are essential. You'll also develop and maintain runbooks for High Availability and Disaster Recovery tests. Providing database expertise to the development team and staying updated with emerging technologies will ensure ABN AMRO remains at the forefront of innovation.

Work within the DB Services team, which support the bank's clearing systems. The role is responsible for Database management of the Clearing applications utilising Oracle, PostGres and / or MS-SQL DB technologies including performing administration, configuration, installation, maintenance, tuning, and support of the database environments. This position will be within a team of existing DBAs that cover Oracle, Postgres and SQLServer.

Working environment

In banking, Clearing denotes all activities from the time a financial instrument is bought or sold on an exchange until it is settled. ABN AMRO Clearing acts as an intermediary between clients and the exchanges these clients trade on. We be the buyer to the seller and seller to the buyer taking over the risk to reconcile orders between the parties in the transaction. Processing around 20 million transactions a day. We do so for professional traders, investment managers and large corporates. As clients are highly demanding and the market environment fluctuates, you are guaranteed to learn a lot in a short space of time. Working at ABN AMRO Clearing means thriving in an international, professional yet informal, fast-paced, technology-driven environment.

Your profile

We are seeking a Database Administrator with expert knowledge of Postgres Enterprise and / ormunity. The ideal candidate has experience with Red Hat Cluster, particularly in PostgreSQL usage, and excels in implementing and supporting logical and physical replication across sites. Strong skills in Postgres installation, patching, and upgrades, preferably automated, are essential. A capacity planning mindset with the ability to automate this process is highly desirable. Experience in installing, configuring, and maintaining a global monitoring solution is required. Knowledge of Postgres Partitioning and Foreign Data Wrappers is advantageous, along with strong performance tuning, troubleshooting, and backup / recovery skills.

Valued skills also include :

• Linux / Network expertise, with an understanding of cluster file systems and storage (such as ACFS / NFS / GPFS), and some knowledge of firewalls, network protocols, interfaces, and routing.
• The ability to diagnose OS-level problems within Linux is highly desirable, along with familiarity with bash / awk / sed and othermon Linux scripting and text manipulation tools.
• Experience with Oracle and Engineered Systems, including Exadata and ODA machine administration, OEM administration, patching, upgrades, and migration processes, is required.
• Strong automation skills, preferably with good SQL skills, are also highly desirable.

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Wie zijn je collega's?

Er zijn altijd nieuwe systemen en technieken die wij kunnen inzetten bij ons werk. We zijn telkens aan het innoveren, daardoor blijf ik mezelf uitdagen."

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Aaron Kieboom

Software-ontwikkelaar

Wiskunde gaat over problemen oplossen met logica, niet over getallen. In mijn werk gaat vooral om het menselijk gedrag achter de cijfers. Dat voorspel ik met de modellen die ik bouw."

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Bartjan Happel

IT-engineer (QRM-expert)

We hebben zo veel technieken en programmeertalen in huis. En we ontwikkelen steeds weer nieuwe producten. Als IT'er kun je bij ABN AMRO onmogelijk vastroesten."

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Benthe Hagemeijer

IT engineer Tikkie

Wereldwijd is ABN AMRO een van de drie grootste clearing-partijen. Toch is ons team niet enorm, dát maakt het zo uniek om hier te werken."

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Marcus van Bergen

Software Engineer

Het idee blijft dat je heel technisch moet zijn voor IT-werk. Toch zie ik dat anders : het is júist een creatief vakgebied."

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Manuela Fokkema

Product owner

Debinatie tussen probleemoplossend denken en technologie vind ik het leukste wat er is."

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Robert Lansing

Netwerk Engineer

Verandering is de enige constante, en daarvoor moet je blijven leren, ontwikkelen en kijken of dingen anders kunnen."

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Ewoud Zanders

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