eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Markit Group

• Location

  Singapore

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  11 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  561964

Company Overview

Markit is a financial information services company with more than 1,100 employees in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Over 1,500 financial institutions use our independent services to manage risk, improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements.

Markit was founded in 2001 as the first independent source of credit derivative pricing. Today, our data, valuations and trade processing services are regarded as the market standard in the global financial markets.

Our clients include investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies. We provide them with round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Dallas, White Plains, Toronto, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney.

Markit was the fastest growing private company in the UK in 2008 (Source: 2008 Real Business/LDC Hot 100.)
 

Position summary
 
A Production DBA role with responsibility within the Infrastructure / Operations team in a fast moving, innovative, and demanding environment.

Duties & accountabilities

To include:

24x7 support for existing and future Oracle 10g (Release 2)/11 RAC and non-RAC production databases on Solaris and Linux;

installations and upgrades, including DEV and QA instances;

capacity planning;

working with Dev groups on application and database configuration and tuning;

maintaining detailed documentation.

Business Competencies

Education and experience

Degree or equivalent in ideally a numerical subject

Previous solid, hands-on experience of the following is a must:

Oracle 10g (setup, maintenance, upgrades)

Oracle Performance Analysis and Tuning

Oracle Clusterware installation & Configuration

Oracle ASM

Providing 24x7 services, encompasing:

High Availability (RAC)

Backup & Recovery

Disaster Recovery (standby databases, including non-'Data Guard Broker' configurations)

Storage Management

Continuous Operations

Production support, problem diagnostics, and problem solving

Experience with the following would be a plus:

Sybase ASE and Replication Server

Good OS skills (scripting, troubleshooting)

Commercial Awareness
 
Ability to understand business objectives and focus and prioritize multiple projects accordingly.

Personal competencies
 
Personal impact

Willingness to take ownership of Production issues is a must

A proven focus on proactive issue avoidance highly desirable

Communication
 
Ability to communicate with both technical and business people in language they understand essential.

Must be able to interact with authority on database issues

Teamwork

Must be able to work effectively with other Operations groups (network, server) in resoving issues

Needs to be able to project a strong professional work ethic onto other team members

Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis. If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Please state in your covering letter that you are eligible to work in the location that we are seeking to make this appointment. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer.

We kindly and respectfully request agencies not to submit applications.