Technical Consultant - Oracle

Job description / Role

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Over the past 100 years, IBMers all over the globe have helped make the world work better and smarter. In this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM is helping to reshape industries by bringing together our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and the Internet of Things: Changing how we create, collaborate, analyze and engage. From transforming healthcare to improving the retail shopping experience - it's what IBMers do. In Africa, we've been changing the way the continent does business for more than 50 years, and as our company continues to grow, we're looking for talented professionals to join us in this new era.

Join us and be part of a diverse and global team of thinkers and doers, and make an impact.

As a Technical Consultant - Oracle, you will be responsible for providing technical expertise and support using Oracle products.Your responsibilities will include :

- Creates and maintains Oracle databases and Oracle Enterprise Applications like, but not limited to, EBusiness, Peoplesoft, JDEdwards, Hyperion, OBIEE, Weblogic and Retek.
- Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the applications and databases. Is aware and has experience on various tools needed to manage and administrate Oracle applications and databases.
- Performs ongoing tuning of the enterprise application environments, Plans and implements backup and recovery, controls migrations of applications, database changes, configuration data changes and menu changes.
- Implements and enforces security for all of the Oracle Applications. Enforces standards to ensure that all application design and code is produced with proper integrity, security and performance. Identifies and Analyzes necessary Oracle patches to keep applications up to date.
- Troubleshoots problems regarding the databases, applications and administration tools, often interacting with Oracle for high impact / severity issues. Understands technology relationships and best practices required for highly available infrastructure, load balancing, application clusters, access management and application deploy processes.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- Oracle Database Administration (Install, configure and Backup & troubleshooting).
- Oracle Database Real Application Cluster.
- Oracle Data Guard & Active Data Guard.
- Oracle EXADATA Administration.
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.
- Oracle Database migration, patching and upgrade.
- Oracle performance troubleshooting & tuning.

Requirements

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Skills:
Environment:
- Professional knowledge related to incumbent's department or function.

Communication/Negotiation:
- Engaged as an independent professional.
- Ability to articulate and compare alternatives approaches.
- Negotiate with specified objectives.

Problem Solving:
- Recognize problems related to project objectives.
- Creativity and judgment applied to professional technical, or operational problems. Independently generates solutions, based on analytical skills & business knowledge.
- Challenge the validity of given procedures and processes to enhance and improve or develop complementary adjustments /solutions.

Contribution/Leadership:
- Works on special projects, or leads small teams, or manages routine technical/ operational activities or departments (national or international).
- Understands departmental mission and vision.
- Provides advice in technical/operational domain of specialization.
- Generally controls own work priorities and methods requiring tradeoffs.

About the Company

For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region's technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

Reinvention is a keyword in the company's history and, today, IBM is much more than a "hardware, software, services" company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.