Senior Database Administrator

Ali Bin Ali Group

Doha, Qatar

Ref: GP219-26

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

- Maintains database by identifying and solving database requirements
- Identifies database requirements by interviewing customers; analyzing department applications, programming, and operations; evaluating existing systems and designing proposed systems.
- Recommends solutions by defining database physical structure and functional capabilities, database security, data back-up, and recovery specifications.
- Installs revised or new systems by proposing specifications and flowcharts; recommending optimum access techniques; coordinating installation requirements.
- Maintains database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters; implementing new releases; completing maintenance requirements; evaluating computer operating systems and hardware products.
- Supports database functions by designing and coding utilities.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
- Executes Troubleshooting methodology and root-cause analysis to resolve small to intermediate level problems.
- Act as a Tier II focal point to resolve all break/fix and service degradation issues.
- Adheres to the agreed event management notification and escalation procedures.
- Lead availability management activities to optimize maintenance and design measures that meet contracted SLA’s.
- Adhere to change management process and procedures.
- Prepare and execute systems maintenance plans to proactively manage reliability and service expectations.
- Responsible for upgrading, and managing OS’s on all production systems.
- Perform periodic reviews of Configuration Items (CIs) to ensure compliance with policies and standards. Perform thorough operational readiness activities.
- Prepares and maintains technical documentation to assist with the on-going operation, maintenance, and development of the enterprise services.
- Perform configuration management activities to manage work instructions and implement configuration changes following agreed procedures.

Requirements

- Minimum 8 years of experienced with relevant field
- Capacity planning, performance analysis and tuning (ORACLE/Exchange/SQL DB)
- Experience with database performance tuning, database security, promoting process Improvement, problem solving, presenting technical Information, and quality focus.
- Advanced database management, data maintenance, operating systems, and attention to detail.

About the Company

The Ali Bin Ali Group is a privately owned company with a heritage that dates back to 1945. Our roots began with a vision to provide quality international products and services to the people of Qatar. Today our Group is one of the largest retail and distribution companies in Qatar. We are also proud to say we have a long-standing reputation for building successful partnerships with the world's leading brands across a diverse range of business activities. This success is born out of our unwavering commitment to the long-term development and strategic growth of not just our Group but also that of our partners.

Our knowledge of the market is unrivaled. That is what keeps us ahead in an environment of phenomenal growth in Qatar. The Ali Bin Ali Group has evolved and grown in response to Qatar's diversifying requirements.

As a Group, we thrive on innovation, which is the key to our consistent market share results and achievement awards. The Ali Bin Ali Group operations are currently local but our standards are International. Our partners and competitors credit us with an impeccable reputation and with excellent public and private sector relationships. But from our perspective our most important affirmation comes from customer satisfaction across each of our Group's business divisions.

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