3 Database Administrator jobs in Ireland
Operational Database Administrator
Letterkenny, Ulster
UnitedHealth Group
Posted 22 days ago
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**Operational Database Administrator (ODBA) - Letterkenny**
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start **Caring. Connecting. Growing together.**
**About the role:**
At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.
Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.
As an Operational Database Administrator (ODBA) for an Epic system, you will manage complex databases that provide healthcare applications and data. This would include installing and administering operational database environments based on InterSystems IRIS, and performing environment setup and configuration, proactive monitoring, and maintenance. In addition to having an impact on a great team, you'll also discover the career opportunities you'd expect from an industry leader.
_Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Letterkenny and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model._
**Primary Responsibilities of the Operational Database Administrators:**
· Successfully complete all required job training, including Epic certification, within first six months of employment and keep certifications up to date
· Creating and managing the operational database environments that serve production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production needs
· Applying InterSystems IRIS and Epic upgrades and updates to production and non-production environments
· Installing and maintaining the administrative and monitoring tools necessary for high levels of availability and performance of healthcare IT system
· Understanding performance metrics, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues
· Configuring and maintaining environment copies according to the environment strategy
· Engaging in capacity planning exercises to ensure adequate system resources
· Help manage the Change Control processes for all Epic environments build migration and technical activities
· Review Sherlock and Galaxy notes and apply routine upgrades to all Epic environment client applications and back-end services
· Implement Epic system high availability strategies and mechanisms
· Ensure Epic application and infrastructure changes are communicated to the necessary teams across the enterprise
· Works closely with database, environment/infrastructure and internal/external enterprise security teams
· Provide on call support for production performance/availability or other critical issues
· Performs other duties as assigned
_You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in._
**Required Qualifications:**
- Degree Qualified in relevant field (Data Science or STEM subject) or equivalent experience
- Strong Linux administration skills, including experience with command line tools, scripting, and troubleshooting
- Ability to create, understand, and follow processes to ensure successful execution of critical maintenance
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Experience working with Epic Systems
- Knowledge of a command shell (BASH), plus languages and utilities such as awk, sed, or Perl
- Understanding of operating system concepts such as user and group ownership and file permissions, file system/volume group configuration, etc.
**Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.**
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.
_At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalised groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission._
_Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved._
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Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start **Caring. Connecting. Growing together.**
**About the role:**
At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.
Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.
As an Operational Database Administrator (ODBA) for an Epic system, you will manage complex databases that provide healthcare applications and data. This would include installing and administering operational database environments based on InterSystems IRIS, and performing environment setup and configuration, proactive monitoring, and maintenance. In addition to having an impact on a great team, you'll also discover the career opportunities you'd expect from an industry leader.
_Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Letterkenny and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model._
**Primary Responsibilities of the Operational Database Administrators:**
· Successfully complete all required job training, including Epic certification, within first six months of employment and keep certifications up to date
· Creating and managing the operational database environments that serve production, reporting, disaster recovery, training, and non-production needs
· Applying InterSystems IRIS and Epic upgrades and updates to production and non-production environments
· Installing and maintaining the administrative and monitoring tools necessary for high levels of availability and performance of healthcare IT system
· Understanding performance metrics, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues
· Configuring and maintaining environment copies according to the environment strategy
· Engaging in capacity planning exercises to ensure adequate system resources
· Help manage the Change Control processes for all Epic environments build migration and technical activities
· Review Sherlock and Galaxy notes and apply routine upgrades to all Epic environment client applications and back-end services
· Implement Epic system high availability strategies and mechanisms
· Ensure Epic application and infrastructure changes are communicated to the necessary teams across the enterprise
· Works closely with database, environment/infrastructure and internal/external enterprise security teams
· Provide on call support for production performance/availability or other critical issues
· Performs other duties as assigned
_You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in._
**Required Qualifications:**
- Degree Qualified in relevant field (Data Science or STEM subject) or equivalent experience
- Strong Linux administration skills, including experience with command line tools, scripting, and troubleshooting
- Ability to create, understand, and follow processes to ensure successful execution of critical maintenance
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Experience working with Epic Systems
- Knowledge of a command shell (BASH), plus languages and utilities such as awk, sed, or Perl
- Understanding of operating system concepts such as user and group ownership and file permissions, file system/volume group configuration, etc.
**Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.**
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.
_At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalised groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission._
_Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved._
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SQL Database Administrator
Dublin, Leinster
UniJobs
Posted today
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Database Administrator Unijobs on behalf of our public sector client have a requirement for a suitably skilled Database Administrator to join their team. The duration of this post is 12 months initially with possible extensions thereafter. This role will be remote working but the successful candidate must be available to attend client sites when required. Working 35 hours per week, the successful candidate will be employed as an agency employee and will be paid an hourly rate of €31.08 per hour based on an annualised salary of €56,757. You will accrue 30 days annual leave per year and paid Bank Holidays. The Database Administrator will join the Customer Service Experience (CSE) Database Services team working on the Application Modernisation Project (AMP). The successful candidate will provide: Database support for upgrades and assessments Advice and support to AMP project stakeholders regarding to all aspects of Database support. The DBAs will be required to support the delivery of services provided by DBA team. Service Types / Category Individual Service Names Troubleshooting/Support DBA Support DBA Alerts Daily Monitoring of Database Estate Security SQL Server Security Best Practice Installation and Maintenance New Builds Upgrades and Migrations Database Backup and Recovery Work closely with Senior DBA in deployment of DBATools to Database Estate Project Work Provide database support for AMP Project. Responsibilities: Support our clients Application Modernisation Programme - AMP in the management of the SQL database estate. Contribute and assist in the migration of databases from out of support servers. Manage database upgrades and consolidation projects Maintain and administer database security access Perform database Ad-hoc backups and restores Trouble shoot and resolve database connectivity issues SQL Server Installation, Upgrades, Migrations and Configuration Install database software service packs and cumulative updates as necessary Monitor and maintain database storage resources Monitor and maintain database maintenance plans for backups, index rebuild/defragment, and database statistics Deliverables for this position: Health check Assessments of SQL database estate in the regions: Identification of SQL Servers/Databases Documentation on configurations, version, dependencies, availability of backups Testing of Ability to restore from backups Analysis of Storage and configuration requirements Migration to new locations on National Data Centres: Configuration of new SQL Servers & SQL Server Instances Application of latest patches/update Transfer of Databases Rollback plans Post-Migration tasks: Continuous Monitoring of additional SQL database estate Updating of relevant documentation, Decommissioning of redundant SQL Servers Required Skills & Competencies: The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate the following skills: Proven expertise in the area of SQL DBA; min 2 years experience Proven experience of setting up, managing and monitoring replicated SQL databases Excellent knowledge of database security, backup and recovery and performance monitoring standards Ability to ensure business continuity in terms of database replication, backup and recovery PowerShell scripting skills would be advantageous Experience creating stored procedures, views and functions Personal Characteristics: Demonstrate good problem solving, analytical and decision making skills The ability to interact in a professional manner with key stakeholders The ability to produce against set timelines Self-starter with a willingness to take responsibility Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills Impeccable attention to detail *This position may be subject to Garda Vetting and Foreign Police Clearance, if applicable you will be required to obtain these prior to commencing in this role* Unijobs is an equal opportunities employer Skills: Database Administrator SQL DBA DBA Support DBA Alerts SQL Powershell Scripting Benefits: 30 days' annual leave
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Senior Oracle Database Administrator
Dublin, Leinster
Mastercard
Posted 2 days ago
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**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Senior Oracle Database Administrator
The Database Engineer plays a critical role within the Processing Service Delivery organization. This individual will lead large initiatives, be responsible for gathering requirements through feature requests from our development partners, perform analysis and implementation of database designs, provide consulting, and drive the best practice, governance, and standards of Database Engineering in Mastercard
Overview
The Processing Service Delivery team is looking for a candidate who can help us solve problems, build and maintain our databases, and lead Mastercard in Database automation and best practices.
- Are you a born problem solver who loves to figure out how something works?
- Do you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?
- Are you interested in leading the database realm for a high-functioning Engineering team?
- Have you worked in global teams across differing geographies?
- Do you an entrepreneurial spirit and embrace critical questioning, innovation, customer service and continuous improvement?
Database Engineering (DE) supports Mastercard Business Systems and Operations across the globe. As part of Technology Operations, DE drives the database engineering best practice, governance and standards in Mastercard. As a Sr. Engineer part of the Processing Service Delivery team, you will leverage your knowledge and skills to deploy and manage various database technologies in Test and Production environments for global products ranging from Developer APIs to Digital Checkout to Card Tokenization.
Major Accountabilities for this role:
* Oracle database administrator with RAC.
* Oracle data guard.
* Oracle OEM.
* Oracle patching and upgrades.
* Oracle backups and restores.
* Oracle performance tuning.
* Oracle Golden gate replication.
* Oracle Exadata.
- Managing wide variety databases, particularly must be highly experienced in database backup and recovery, performance tuning, and high availability configuration. Database technologies include (but are not limited to): Oracle, PostgreSQL, NoSQL (added advantage). The ideal candidate should have experience in more than one database technology.
- Forward thinking infrastructure automation and scripting skills.
- Leads in managing client's expectations and communicates proactively.
- Requires little supervision while identifying tasks associated with responsibilities
- Collaborates with other DBAs, participates in internal projects and leads some initiatives.
- Provide DBA suggestions and input on direction for database domain strategy.
- Guides and provides direction for use of best practices and application database solutions to Mastercard's development teams.
- Reviews new tools and products that assist in providing database support and services.
- Plans and coordinates data migrations between systems.
Education (preferred):
Bachelor's Degree in Information systems or equivalent experience.
Knowledge/Experience (preferred):
- In-depth knowledge of database management (Installation, creation of new instances, space management, database reorganization and internals, backup and recovery, replication, performance monitoring and troubleshooting, identification of bottlenecks in locks, waits).
- Strong working knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases with relevant certifications
- Good understanding of security standards and best practices around database platforms.
- Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.
- Intermediate knowledge of Oracle replication implementation (Golden Gate/DataGuard).
- Intermediate knowledge of Oracle internals.
- Intermediate knowledge of Oracle middleware (OEM).
- Intermediate knowledge of Oracle physical database tuning.
- Intermediate knowledge of SQL tuning background.
- Working knowledge of backup/recovery using RMAN for Oracle.
- Working PL/SQL coding background.
- Intermediate implementation knowledge of partitioning and/or sharding concepts.
- Working knowledge of Oracle RAC, Cluster Resource software and Oracle features.
- Knowledge of multiple database technologies (including but not limited to): Oracle, PostgreSQL, NoSQL. The ideal candidate should have experience in more than one database technology.
- Understanding of CAP theorem and its implementation in NoSQL Technologies.
- Understanding of logical and physical data models on structured and unstructured data patterns.
- Demonstrates an understanding of Database Engineering's role in supporting business processes.
- Demonstrates the ability to participate in cross functional teams for estimating, application designs, and implementation strategies.
Skills/Abilities:
- Uses strong verbal and written communication skills to build awareness and to proactively promote DBA's position in support of sound database structures, data governance and other Corporate strategies.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize efforts.
- Ability to pick up new technologies at a quick pace.
- Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies
- Displays excellent collaborative skills with cross-functional teams.
- Provide positive customer service to internal business partners.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Senior Oracle Database Administrator
The Database Engineer plays a critical role within the Processing Service Delivery organization. This individual will lead large initiatives, be responsible for gathering requirements through feature requests from our development partners, perform analysis and implementation of database designs, provide consulting, and drive the best practice, governance, and standards of Database Engineering in Mastercard
Overview
The Processing Service Delivery team is looking for a candidate who can help us solve problems, build and maintain our databases, and lead Mastercard in Database automation and best practices.
- Are you a born problem solver who loves to figure out how something works?
- Do you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?
- Are you interested in leading the database realm for a high-functioning Engineering team?
- Have you worked in global teams across differing geographies?
- Do you an entrepreneurial spirit and embrace critical questioning, innovation, customer service and continuous improvement?
Database Engineering (DE) supports Mastercard Business Systems and Operations across the globe. As part of Technology Operations, DE drives the database engineering best practice, governance and standards in Mastercard. As a Sr. Engineer part of the Processing Service Delivery team, you will leverage your knowledge and skills to deploy and manage various database technologies in Test and Production environments for global products ranging from Developer APIs to Digital Checkout to Card Tokenization.
Major Accountabilities for this role:
* Oracle database administrator with RAC.
* Oracle data guard.
* Oracle OEM.
* Oracle patching and upgrades.
* Oracle backups and restores.
* Oracle performance tuning.
* Oracle Golden gate replication.
* Oracle Exadata.
- Managing wide variety databases, particularly must be highly experienced in database backup and recovery, performance tuning, and high availability configuration. Database technologies include (but are not limited to): Oracle, PostgreSQL, NoSQL (added advantage). The ideal candidate should have experience in more than one database technology.
- Forward thinking infrastructure automation and scripting skills.
- Leads in managing client's expectations and communicates proactively.
- Requires little supervision while identifying tasks associated with responsibilities
- Collaborates with other DBAs, participates in internal projects and leads some initiatives.
- Provide DBA suggestions and input on direction for database domain strategy.
- Guides and provides direction for use of best practices and application database solutions to Mastercard's development teams.
- Reviews new tools and products that assist in providing database support and services.
- Plans and coordinates data migrations between systems.
Education (preferred):
Bachelor's Degree in Information systems or equivalent experience.
Knowledge/Experience (preferred):
- In-depth knowledge of database management (Installation, creation of new instances, space management, database reorganization and internals, backup and recovery, replication, performance monitoring and troubleshooting, identification of bottlenecks in locks, waits).
- Strong working knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases with relevant certifications
- Good understanding of security standards and best practices around database platforms.
- Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.
- Intermediate knowledge of Oracle replication implementation (Golden Gate/DataGuard).
- Intermediate knowledge of Oracle internals.
- Intermediate knowledge of Oracle middleware (OEM).
- Intermediate knowledge of Oracle physical database tuning.
- Intermediate knowledge of SQL tuning background.
- Working knowledge of backup/recovery using RMAN for Oracle.
- Working PL/SQL coding background.
- Intermediate implementation knowledge of partitioning and/or sharding concepts.
- Working knowledge of Oracle RAC, Cluster Resource software and Oracle features.
- Knowledge of multiple database technologies (including but not limited to): Oracle, PostgreSQL, NoSQL. The ideal candidate should have experience in more than one database technology.
- Understanding of CAP theorem and its implementation in NoSQL Technologies.
- Understanding of logical and physical data models on structured and unstructured data patterns.
- Demonstrates an understanding of Database Engineering's role in supporting business processes.
- Demonstrates the ability to participate in cross functional teams for estimating, application designs, and implementation strategies.
Skills/Abilities:
- Uses strong verbal and written communication skills to build awareness and to proactively promote DBA's position in support of sound database structures, data governance and other Corporate strategies.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize efforts.
- Ability to pick up new technologies at a quick pace.
- Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies
- Displays excellent collaborative skills with cross-functional teams.
- Provide positive customer service to internal business partners.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
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