Senior DBA Consultant

Job Description

Senior DBA Consultant Remote

Location: Ireland
Department: Professional Services

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Job Summary

We are Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) - the trusted provider of software that enables our customers to develop, deploy, and manage responsible, AI-powered applications and experiences with agility and ease.

Were proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a Senior Database Administrator for our Managed Database Administration Service group and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward.

In this role, you will be helping our customers succeed in their business by providing remote database administration tasks for their production OpenEdge deployments. You will be the expert for our MDBA accounts and their business continuity and high availability policies. Thats a great opportunity to work with the largest and most senior team in the OpenEdge database ecosystem, supporting the largest managed database service in the industry.

In this role, you will:

• Support multiple customer deployments as their Primary Database Administrator
• Support the team with a periodic on-call duty, currently 10 weeks per year
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical OpenEdge database issues as they come in
• Provide monthly reports for your customers
• Deliver backend related project work for Progress customer base, such as:
  • Perform Database Health Checks
  • Implement OpenEdge Database Features like OE Replication, TDE, Auditing, etc
  • Perform Platform migrations and/or upgrades for deployed OpenEdge environments
  • Perform maintenance items like Dump and Load, implementing After Imaging, etc

Your background:

• Minimum 10 years experience with OpenEdge databases
• Experience with both UNIX/Linux and Windows platforms
• Shell Scripting on UNIX/Linux
• Windows Batch scripting and CLI
• JDK/JRE frameworks and Tomcat implementations
• Experience with n-tier environments involving both Progress Classic AppServer and PASOE
• Progress SQL92 and middleware solutions, e.g. DataServers for MSSQL or Oracle
• A passion to help customers resolve technical issues
• Familiar with various problem analysis and troubleshooting methodologies
• Excellent communication skills, both orally and written
• Fluent in English and at least one other additional language, both written and spoken

Additionally, it would be beneficial if you have:

• Experience as a remote OpenEdge database administrator (DBA)
• Experience with project work as an OpenEdge consultant
• Experience with Pro2* Replication product in LAN and WAN environments

If this sounds like you and fits your experience and career goals, wed be happy to chat.

What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and also to enjoy: Compensation:

• Generous remuneration package
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrollment

Vacation, Family, and Health:

• 25 vacation days annually
• Birthday day off
• Community service time off
• International Womens Day March 8 is an official holiday for all employees
• Pension plan
• Group life assurance
• Income protection coverage in case of long-term illness or injury
• Private health insurance
• Hybrid working
• Cycle to Work scheme tax-efficient bike and equipment purchase

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