Sybase Database Engineer

Hunt Group – a mix of recruitment (executive search and head hunting) and outsourcing activities in industries such as IT, oil&gas, banking, finance and automotive.

- Experience in supporting business critical applications and servers in a multi data centre/ multisite environment
- Extensive experience in Sybase ASE 15.0.3 – 16.0 and IQ 15.3 – 16.1 database administration; replication and replication servers; Asemon; White Sands
- Experience with Oracle Databases (10G – 12C) or SQL Server (2008 – 1016) is nice-to-have
- Shell Scripting, Perl or ISQL experience is desirable
- Experience of working in the finance/banking sector would be an advantage
- Graduate Degree in Information Technology/Math’s/Physics/Statistics/Engineering or an equivalent working experience
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills and pragmatic approach
- A proactive attitude
- The ability to liaise with different levels of staff within the organization
- Good team player must be motivated to progress in the role and willing to share experience/ knowledge
- Self-starter with the ability to plan and manage work according to deadlines

- Develop and maintain database build standards including security to industry standards, patching and high availability
- Monitor and manage database resources to ensure optimum performance
- Document and manage database server procedures such as backup and restore, upgrades and disaster recovery procedures
- Undertake maintenance and upgrades, generally out of normal business hours including weekends
- Provide database design support to development projects
- Performance tuning and diagnostics
- Review database application code and advise accordingly
- Assist Windows administrators as necessary to support applications that use the databases
- Develop and maintain a strategy for database management to include both manual procedures/spot checks and automated alerts
- Assist IT Security in maintaining an appropriate database security policy. Evaluate and implement applications to ‘police’ adherence to policy