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The Qualys SaaS platform is database centric and relies heavily on Oracle, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, Ceph etc to deliver 24x7 service to our customers worldwide.
We are looking for an individual who is proficient in Oracle databases with multi node RAC databases , high volume production databases. He must be enthusiastic in learning new technologies and automate day-to-day tasks.
This individual is primarily responsible for keeping productions systems running across our many worldwide platforms and is responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of mission-critical Oracle RAC environments. This role leads the design, deployment, and ongoing optimization of clustered database systems, ensuring high availability and resilience. It involves driving performance tuning, capacity planning, and proactive issue prevention, while establishing best practices for automation, monitoring, and incident response. This role also mentors team members, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and provides strategic direction to continuously improve database platform stability and efficiency.
DBRE will be working closely with Development/Engineering, SRE, Infra, Networking, Support teams and Worldwide Customers to provide 24x7 Support for Qualys production applications to improve the service through database optimizations. This position will report to Manager DBRE.
Responsibilities:
- Perform installation, configuration, performance tuning of multi node Oracle RAC databases
- Identifying the bottlenecks and performance tuning.
- Responsible for integrity and security of the database.
- Monitoring performance and managing configuration parameters to provide fast query responses to front-end users.
- Installation and testing of new databases as well as patching of existing live databases.
- Ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly.
- Go extra-mile in understanding business application and suggest / perform necessary database or architecture changes.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 10-15 years of extensive experience managing large oracle RAC databases with multi nodes in high volume environments.
- Should have extensive knowledge of diagnostic, monitoring and troubleshooting tools to identify performance bottlenecks, and take appropriate corrective actions to improve database performance.
- Knowledge of operating interrelationships between databases, business applications and operating systems.
- Understand backup and recovery scenarios and experience in using RMAN
- Problem-solving and good analytical skills.
- Working knowledge on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a plus.
- Must be able to work with multiple groups to resolve data issues.
- Must have experience of working in mid to large size production environment
Experience in nosql technologies like Cassandra, Kafka,opensearch,redis will be a plus
Skills Required
- 10-15 years managing large Oracle RAC databases
- Extensive knowledge of monitoring and troubleshooting tools
- Knowledge of backup and recovery scenarios and RMAN
- Experience in mid to large size production environments
- Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is accessible through company stock plans and an employee stock purchase plan. Compensation packages commonly include equity alongside salary and bonus, which some consider a meaningful part of total rewards.
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Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
