What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a Desk Side Support to join our CIS DWP Digital support\DSS Team.
What will you be doing
As part of a DevOps team you will be building, supporting, migrating and automating the Oracle environment on Exadata Cloud at Customer(ExaCC). Products supported within that environment include Oracle databases, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Key Vault and ExaCC.
You engineer the solution to build ExaCC platform to be complaint to regulatory requirements. You will be extensively working on Oracle Database migrations to ExaCC.
A part of the workload will be developing the infrastructure as code to support CI/CD pipeline based on products such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible and Python.
Your day-to-day activities range from actual engineering the Database migrations and coding automation scripts, but also engineering new or adapted solutions for customer organization. As part of the migration delivery team you will also be responsible for configuration of monitoring, maximum availability architecture(MAA) and support during and after the cutover window. Role sometimes will need to work outside office hours .
You work closely together with other teams and the Product Owner.
Who are you
- You are an experienced (at least 5 years) Oracle DBA with Exadata/ExaCC knowledge and like to work in a DevOps team in a complex environment
- You love challenges and really motivated to achieve the project
- You love automation challenges
- You understand that the “Oracle Cloud & Engineered Systems” will be a very large part of any infrastructure solution
- You see the big-picture but like to go in the details to solve complex integration issues
- You are a team player, but also a self-starter/self-organizing and resilient
- You love to give and receive constructive feedback, since continuous improvement is one of your drivers.
What you bring
Required skills:
- Extensive experience of Oracle RDBMS Technology stack products
- Extensive experience in Oracle Database migrations
- Extensive experience of MAA
- Extensive experience of Oracle Exadata and ExaCC
- Extensive experience of Oracle Enterprise Manager
- Extensive experience of Oracle Enterprise Linux and virtualization
- Good experience with CI/CD Pipeline, automation (Ansible, Git, Jenkins and Python)
- Good experience and knowledge on Oracle Performance Tuning
- Good experience and knowledge on Oracle Key Vault
- Good experience of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of SSO Authentication & Authorization, LDAP
- Knowledge of Networking
- Knowledge of Python
And the following competence related qualities:
- Experience with DevOps, Scrum, working in an agile way
- Client focused
- Result-oriented
- Compliancy and standards focused
- Taking Initiative
- Being critical/contentious
- Collaborative attitude
- Willing to work on-site as part of a team sharing knowledge and experience
- You possess good communication skills and are transparent about your work within the team
- English language needs to be at proficient level
- Ready to travel couple of times in a quarter if required.
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
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