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Cognizant Senior Database Administrator - PostgresSQL in Amsterdam, AM - Schiphol, Netherlands
Senior Database Administrator
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, innovative, and successful. This is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for IT Support Engineer to join our Infrastructure Services Team.
About Cognizant Infrastructure Services
Today’s customers want seamless, intuitive, and personalized experiences while they’re using products and services. The digital era is forcing companies like yours to transform through technology to stay relevant. Your business must be always on and your infrastructure must predict change before it happens, to act fast and put a smile on the faces of users.
Cognizant is helping you prepare for the digital era, with infrastructure services that are transforming the face of enterprises. We can help your business maximize the potential of automation and a software-defined data center (SDDC), by delivering services through a business-aligned Catalog model.
More information? Please visit
https://www.cognizant.com/cognizant-digital-systems-technology/infrastructure-services
About Role:
This position will work together with the database services team, which supports our client systems. The role is responsible for database management of the clearing applications utilising Oracle, PostGres and/or MS-SQL DB technologies including performing administration, configuration, installation, maintenance, tuning, and support of the database environments.
Job Description:
Responsible for ensuring the availability and performance of the Clearing database environment.
Manage non-production, production and disaster recovery database environments.
Works closely with support team colleagues to ensure that the associated hardware resources for the database environment are configured for optimum performance and availability.
Proactively monitors database environment to ensure minimum downtime.
Provides regular trend analysis to track database performance and throughput, for capacity planning purposes.
Responsible for enhancements, maintenance and upgrades to the database environment.
Works with business, architecture, development and technical colleagues to manage and implement changes.
Carries out analysis of potential hardware problems prior to contacting third-party support.
Escalates problems to third-party support when necessary – acting as a point of contact.
Analyses and resolves problems when they arise providing details of the resolution in the call logging system.
Liaises with users to ensure fast and satisfactory problems resolution.
Develops automated housekeeping and monitoring/alerting tasks to reduce the need for manual intervention.
Investigates and develops methods for performance optimisation and the prevention of recurring problems.
Maintains system documentation.
Ensures all system and application changes are approved via the appropriate Change Control methods.
Develop and maintain runbooks for High Availability and Disaster Recovery tests and is responsible for planning and running these tests.
Handle the implementation of the bank clearing’s business applications running in development, test and production environments. This will include installation of applications, releases and patch management as well as upgrades.
Work with the architecture team to provide technical expertise to define and implement a global infrastructure to support existing and future projects.
Provide database expertise to the development team (internal and external) regarding development around database technology, covering deployment best practise and configuration for AAC Clearing applications.
Experience of implementing and supporting high availability solutions.
What do you bring?
Experience at a Senior level specifically with Postgres database, must have enough experience to operate proactively and efficiently within the team and wider organization.
Expert Postgres Enterprise and/or community knowledge (installation, ideally automation including Red Hat Cluster experience, preferred in use of PostGres Databases
Strong Postgresql performance tuning and troubleshooting experience.
Experience with Linux and an understanding of networks/storage is highly valued.
Understanding of cluster file systems and storage (ACFS/NFS/GPFS) required including Some understanding of firewalls, network protocols, interfaces and routing required. Ability to diagnose OS level problems within Linux highly desirable
Knowledge of bash/awk/sed and other common Linux scripting/text manipulation tools desirable
Nice to have:
Postgres Partitioning, Foreign data Wrappers knowledge and experience would be an advantage
Experience with Oracle is a bonus (Exadata and ODA machine administration, OEM administration, patching, upgrades, architecture, Migration and upgrade experience
Strong automation skills, preferably with good SQL skills would be highly desirable
What we offer
A competitive salary based on your qualities and experience.
Access to Udemy, Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning.
NS business card to cover your commute expenses.
25 days of paid holiday per year.
A laptop and a smartphone.
A pension scheme.
Organization driven by technology – we have a tremendous technology backbone.
Open, ‘can do’ team spirit and international environment that encourages making your ideas reality.
Studies show that women and underrepresented groups tend to apply for jobs only when they fulfil 100% of the requirements. If this sounds like you, we would like to encourage you to reconsider and apply. The requirements listed above are guidelines and we welcome applications from candidates who may not meet all of them but are keen to develop their skills. We look forward to receiving your application.
Diversity And Inclusion At Cognizant
At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as “Women Empowered”, “Embrace LGBTQ+” and “Race Equality Network”. For more information, see https://careers.cognizant.com/global/en/diversity-and-inclusion
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.