Database - Access & Security Specialist

About the Company: 

Hiring for one of the largest diversified family business groups in the Middle East.

Role Overview – Senior Manager -Infrastructure Service Assurance

PURPOSE:

This role involves overseeing the administration, management, security, and optimization of our enterprise databases, ensuring data integrity, performance, and compliance. Maintain and administration of:

1.OCI - Tenancy Operations and Management include setup, integrations and cost management
2. Oracle EBS - Apps DBA
3. Oracle Cloud FCCS/ Hyperion - (On-prem and SaaS services)
4. HCM
5. PaaS and SaaS Application management on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
6. Core DBA skills on Unix/ Linux Platforms
The role is also accountable for supporting designing and implementing Oracle / SQL related products both in on premise and cloud.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Strategic:

• Supporting the team in delivery of high-quality products within committed time frames.

• Working with Oracle primarily and Microsoft support on security releases with the help of technical team and ensuring all objects are implemented together.

• Providing operational reports, including current usage of licenses, plan for code optimization, system utilization reports.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Consult with IT and security staff to ensure that security is factored into the evaluation and configuration of system.
• Coordinate the implementation of technical controls to support and enforce defined security policies.
• Design recommend or plan the implementation of new or updated information and analyze its impact on the existing environment.
• Provide technical expertise for the maintenance and administration of Database related security tools.
• Ensuring Database security through user permissions and access controls.

Operational:

• Work and ensuring all deliverables are completed
• Ensure complete understanding of the security and license estimate and project scope
• Collaborate on the creation of application requirements and fit/gap analysis.

• Work on security, access and administration of various Oracle / SQL Server environments across different applications.
• Ensure security access and integration delivery at program level.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all resources, system key processes, reviewing system and application logs and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Perform regular monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
• Support and coordinate operational components of incident management, including detection, response, and reporting.
• Provide after-hours support for database related emergencies as well as occasional weekend maintenance.
• Develop and implement security and access related plans, risk assessments and contingency plans.



JOB DESCRIPTION:

People Management:

• Co-ordinate with development and functional teams to ensure the deployments are done as per standards.
• Work with security administrator on upcoming additional features and guiding with best practices on Oracle/SQL related application.
• Maintain a KDB comprising a technical reference library, security advisories and alerts, information on security trends and practices.
• Work with management on Oracle / SQL related projects and provide high quality solutions for other IT projects.
• Ability to manage a team of Database administrators and techno-functional consultants.

Product & Process Improvement:

• Design the solution by following best practices and ensuring a good quality of customization delivery.
• Fully utilizes Oracle Technology and additional tools.
• Support and work with management to automated approach for system administration tasks.

• Identify opportunities for effective hosting of business applications to provide scalable system capable of supporting geographically diverse workforce.
• Support on day-to-day activities of threat and vulnerability management, identify risk tolerances, recommend treatment plans, and communicate information about residual risk.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science
• Bachelor's Degree in Any field or Diploma in Computer Science

Knowledge & Skills:

• Excellent knowledge of ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE including creation, operations and management, backup, cost optimization, support of the environment.
• Excellent DBA skills and experience on Oracle Autonomous Database, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms and on prem environments on Unix.
• Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle FCCS/ Hyperion Application.
• Understand and implement oracle related databases and applications. Security configurations and control.
• Ability to organize, prioritize estimate and deliver tasks meeting deadline.
• Evaluate and advise the right tools and system for any future development.
• Deploying and managing Oracle databases and services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to address complex database issues.
• Waterfall, Agile methodologies.



Other Details:

• Experience: 10-20 years
• Location: Islamabad (On-site)
• Compensation: Market-competitive Salary + Benefits

Work Location: In person