Senior Database Administrator

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.  EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets

Job Description :

• The successful candidate will be a production database-administration competency in our News Technology Services / New Tech Infrastructure team and will take ownership of supporting the Dow Jones/News UK / News Corp Australia/ Realtor  corporate databases including performance, reliability and security of data in a core database competency.

• The Oracle Database Administrator will be primarily experienced in Oracle RDBMS with knowledge of Cloud technologies.  Additionally, they’ll be involved in administration of databases and their eco-systems; will support release, incident, problem, business continuity management practices; will patch, upgrade and comply with audit controls; will continuously improve database service quality to ensure stability and high availability. You are experienced in implementing; securing, supporting and upgrading enterprise infrastructure, ensuring the infrastructure, which runs corporate applications, are correctly monitored and highly available as required.

• Additionally, the candidate is expected to have working knowledge of a second database technology which could be one of PostgreSQL, MySQL/Aurora, MongoDB or Redshift.

• Candidates will need to possess working knowledge of Cloud technologies of AWS and Azure including Compute (EC2, Auto Scaling, Lambda etc), Storage (S3, EFS, EBS etc.), Network (VPC, ELB’s, Route 53 etc).

• Candidates are expected to work in a rotating 24 x 5 model and also provide on-call support as required by business.

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