Senior NonStop Database Administrator

FIS

About The Position

As the world works and lives faster, FIS is leading the way. Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we’d like to ask you: Are you FIS? About the role: Expert role requiring extensive skill and proficiency. Demonstrated competency of the Senior Database Administrator role is required. Works independently with only administrative supervision on highly complex projects with extensive latitude for independent judgment. Expected to be the primary mentor for others on the database staff and is a role model for the rest of the team. Effectively communicates with all levels of technical and non-technical personnel. Ability to provide communication on issues or complex information to a wide audience based on knowledge of as well as a strong understanding of interface points between departments within TSG and application teams. Participates as a senior member of the database team in strategic planning and direction. Recommends and assists in the selection, evaluation and implementation of new database technologies and software tools to assist in maintaining the database environment. Develops, documents and implements; standards, guidelines, direction and education on database process/procedures for application teams as well as database staff. Assigned to the most highly visible, sensitive and critical systems. Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of experience as a database administrator.

Requirements

Extensive experience on the NonStop platform as a Systems Database Administrator with experience on NSX platform under L-Series, SQLCI, TMF, TACL, FUP, BACKUP/RESTORE, PAK/UNPAK, Netbatch, Pathway, Measure, SQL/MX, JDBC/MX, OSS, Escort Ranger, MOMI, Shadowbase, RDF or DRNet.
Must have skills include: Splitting, Merging and Adding SQL/MP partitions Data distribution with partitioning using First Key values Creating large-scale, partitioned SQL/MP tables, indexes and views SQL query analysis and tuning Updating SQL/MP and SQL/MX statistics Configuring SQL/MP aliases and MXOSRVR configuration FUP commands for Enscribe files FUP reloads TMF Audittrail configuration and Online dump setup Data Replication using Shadowbase, RDF or DRNet Analyzing and reporting performance metrics via Measure
Additional related skills… Escort Ranger partitioning generation OSS shell scripting TACL Programming Netbatch job creation/monitoring MOMI or similar Performance monitoring product
Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of experience as a database administrator.
Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.

Responsibilities

Meets commitments and provides excellent customer service at all times with internal and external clients.
Provides status reports (written and/or verbal) that are detailed to tasks and difficulties encountered – enables managers to initiate escalation if necessary and assess areas where changes or additional support may be warranted.
Ensures issues resulting in customer outage is escalated appropriately through TSG management.
Assists application groups with design development that meet current and future business requirements: Participates in logical design process of strategic projects and responsible for the physical design/implementation.
Reports problem performance areas and recommendations for improvement.
Follows up on recommendations and actively pushes for implementation as appropriate.
Understands and applies database concepts such as database definitions, parameters, database component placement, reorganization, access methods and security definitions.
Works with capacity planning, operations, application developers and other TSG teams on database performance and access issues.
Provides 24/7 support of production database environments.
As primary administrator, provides on call support as needed for on-call issues with database environments and provides follow up and permanent resolution for reoccurring issues.
Implements backup/recovery procedures to protect integrity of data in database environment.
Actively manages backups along with other database administrators to ensure processes are successful and we can recover as a result.
If necessary, participates in recovery of databases and assists with disaster recovery testing and documentation.