The Syabse DBA – Data Platform is responsible for working on database project delivery and / or production support activities from a technical perspective. Typically this will be day to day activities supporting database infrastructure including solving production and non-production issues, working on change, incidents and problems.
This role demands strong technical skills with a focus to ensure maximum uptime of the production database infrastructure. Working as a member of a global database support team the successful candidate will play a pro-active role in the support of Fidelity’s database estate. The role will involve regular BAU (Business As Usual) support and will involve 24 x 7 support and weekend working.
Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of this role are:
- 24x7 support for Fidelity’s Production database estate. This includes all Production, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Break Fix, User Acceptance Testing and Development environments.
- Rapid response to address high severity (severity 1, 2 and 3H) incidents.
- Support and delivery of assigned project work.
- Pro-active issue detection and resolution as well as service monitoring.
- Service restoration after unanticipated outages or disruptions.
- Provision of technical support on a shift, on-call and rotational basis.
- Resolution of production support issues.
- Escalation as necessary to secure assistance and technical guidance from other Technology teams to resolve support issues.
Experience and Qualifications Required
- Excellent Sybase database administration skills in a production support capacity;
with the responsibilityfor the delivery, support and maintenance of reliable, highly available and high-performance environments.
- Support of database installation and configuration, monitoring and housekeeping, upgrade and patching, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and performance tuning.
Personal Skills
- A positive team player.
- Experience of working to tight deadlin