DBA

<p><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Collaborate closely with development teams to design efficient, scalable, and maintainable database schemas </span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Participate early in application design to ensure optimal data modeling and query patterns </span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, and data access patterns during development lifecycle </span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Design and review normalized and denormalized table structures</span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Define indexing strategies and data partitioning aligned with application use cases</span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Define and enforce database coding standards and performance guidelines</span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Analyze query execution plans and performance issues identified during development, testing, and client UAT and production</span></span></p></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements </span></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Contribute to database security design (roles, privileges, masking strategies)</span></span></p></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">Actively participate in backup and restore process design</span></span></li><li><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US">Analyze Oracle AWR reports</span></span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Extensive experience with Oracle Database 19c</span></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Strong experience in data modeling and schema design for complex applications</span></span></p></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Proficient in optimizing complex queries and store procedures, optimized indexing</span></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Experience analyzing execution plans and tuning queries in development phases, or to unlock production incidents</span></span></p></li><li><p style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Hands-on experience working with developers in Agile environments</span></span></p></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Database design skills</span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Knowledge of Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) for backup –understanding of production database concepts (HA, backup, recovery) as context for design decisions</span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Understanding of database security and practices</span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Proficiency in shell scripting</span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Proficiency in Docker</span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Familiarity with Linux</span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Experience with Oracle SQL Developer</span></li><li style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Knowledge of cloud database solutions such as Oracle cloud, Amazon RDS for Oracle, MS Azure</span></li></ul><p><span lang="EN-US"><strong>What you bring:</strong></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Added bonus:</strong></span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li><span lang="EN-US">Java knowledge </span></li><li><span lang="EN-US">Report generation</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US">Basic understanding of Kubernetes</span></li></ul><p> </p> <br>At Zensar, we’re <i>“experience-led everything”</i>. 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