Staff, Database Administration

Location: Alpharetta, GA, USA
Job ID: IRC73570
Post Date: 01/24/2014
Detailed Description
THE COMPANY
E*TRADE Financial Corporation, the online investing & trading pioneer, with 4.5 million accounts and over $200 billion in customer assets, is continuing to reinvent the online trading industry. Our unique culture of innovation creates an environment where you will be continually learning and challenged to develop your career.

SUMMARY
Provide 24x7x365 operational, and related infrastructure and administration services for mission-critical databases in a fast-paced environment for brokerage, banking, and related financial and other business/enterprise applications. This is a Staff DBA with primary solid skills in supporting a large Oracle/MS SQL Server environment. This position will report to Database Engineering Manager within the Data Services Infrastructure Group, and will require strong team interaction with Data Services staff/peers, other engineering and operations group members within the IT organization, as well as with application and business development teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES
● Provide database administration and management with Linux/UNIX/Microsoft platforms/environments/tools (including operational and monitoring features).
● Monitor the daily performance of the production environment.
● Provide a support on any kind of Infrastructure changes affecting the Oracle/MS SQL Server databases.
● Perform operational aspects of high availability (clustering and related, including replication) solutions, and database security related concepts and designs (SOX compliance), are essential.

REQUIREMENTS
MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE
● 2-4 years of experience with Linux/UNIX and/or Windows environment.
● Willingness to work in Database Operations Shift rotations in a 24×7 environment, and expected to handle day to day database operational as well as preventive measures responsibilities.
● Hands on operational experience with at least Oracle 10g/11g, and/or MSSQL Server 2005/2008/2012.
● 1-2 years as a DBA with major responsibilities in a large/challenging database environment.
DESIRED EXPERIENCE
● Basic administration skills in UNIX, Linux, and Windows system administration skills as relates to RDBMS are a plus.
● Prior experience in a real-time transaction processing (preferably financial brokerage/banking and/or ecommerce) industry is highly desirable.
EDUCATION, TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
● BS or MS in Computer Science or related field highly desirable.
● Oracle/Microsoft Certifications and Training or equivalent experience is a plus.

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We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Please visithttps://career.etrade.com/why-work-at-etrade/employee-benefits to learn more about the opportunities.
E*TRADE Financial is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER