Production DBA – AbeBooks.com

At AbeBooks.com, our mission is to help people find & buy any book from any bookseller anywhere. We are the world’s largest online marketplace for books with more than 110 million new, used, rare, & out-of-print books listed for sale by more than 13,500 independent booksellers in 53 countries.

As a Production DBA with AbeBooks your will be a key Member of the Systems Database Group responsible for providing overall database development and support. You will be responsible for providing day-to-day support and maintenance for key Oracle databases and services of our enterprise application platform.

Responsibilites:

• Responsible for investigating potential database related issues; some urgent occurrences may require you to be available via a blackberry when needed
• Monitor database events and proactively optimize system performance
• Work with the db and operations teams to automate reactive procedures where possible, and to promote rapid response to known db related issues
• Work with other teams to promote changes to production and other environments
• Accountable for maintaining database configurations in compliance with established best practices
• Oversee data fixes for business issues or to address application issues
• Accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures
• Work in conjunction with other operations, application development, and business groups to understand functionality, scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements from the database perspective
• Develop and maintain an in depth understanding of the database architecture and the general application functionality used to maintain data integrity.

Please send your resume to hr@abebooks.com or fax to 250-475-6014. For more information please visit our website at www.abebooks.com.