Pythian

Database Administrator

• Senior Oracle Database Administrator — India | Multiple time zones available | Remote | Hyderabad.
• Coordination, analysis, design, implementation, and administration of database solutions, including database server configuration and maintenance.
• Analyze customers' infrastructure/processes and recommend best practices to improve operations, uptime, and recoverability.
• Administer backup procedures and disaster recovery plans; provide proactive monitoring, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot operational problems.
• Oversee backup, clustering, mirroring, replication, failover, and restoration; develop and review maintenance, deployment, and upgrade action plans; maintain client documentation.
• Assist Lead Database Consultant with Incident Management, Problem Management, Change and Service Request implementation, and design/implement technical procedures for complex changes.
• Prepare customer status and incident reports; respond to customer requests and maintain alignment with customer operating procedures.
• Maintain customer-specific assets such as soft/hard access tokens and access cards.
• Lead team processes including handovers, documentation, process acknowledgements, and incident reviews.
• Enhance Pythian tools and processes; design/implement monitoring checks, DBA toolkit enhancements, and process improvements.
• Participate in sales support activities such as presales, proposal preparation, and technical calls.
• Contribute to external profile: prepare marketing collateral, present at conferences or user groups, and blog on technology topics.

Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Administration

• Design and deploy a highly available and scalable Zabbix architecture (Server, Proxies, Web Frontend, Database) to support a multi-tenant MSP environment.
• Create, customize, and manage advanced Zabbix templates for a diverse technology stack, including Windows, Linux, VMware, NetApp, EMC, Cisco (Switches, Routers, ASA), databases, and various network appliances using SNMP, IPMI, agents, and API calls.
• Spearhead the migration of over 2000+ hosts and 10000+ services from the existing legacy monitoring environment to Zabbix.
• Develop robust custom monitoring scripts using Python and/or Shell to address unique monitoring requirements.
• Utilize Ansible or Puppet to automate the deployment, configuration, and management of thousands of Zabbix agents across client environments.
• Build, manage, and optimize insightful monitoring dashboards and reports in Grafana for both internal NOC teams and external clients.
• Perform essential administration, performance tuning, and maintenance for the Zabbix backend database (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
• Act as the in-house Zabbix expert, training and mentoring other team members to build their monitoring skills and ensure operational excellence.
• Establish and maintain clear documentation for monitoring standards, configurations, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Senior Zabbix Administrator