IT Engineer - Oracle DBA

About Business line/Function: ARVAL Service Lease

Arval is a car renting company with Services, for professional entities and more recently, opened to retail market. Serving 30 countries worldwide with the goal of being the best in class both for customer satisfaction and innovation (Partnership, new technologies, etc.)

Arval IT is the IT department of the company. The IT Production Tribe is a key component of the Arval IT department, focusing on several critical areas to support the company's operations. This tribe is structured into 4 domains :

• Production security domain: Manage the security on Production : Security Monitoring, Advanced Malware Protection, Secure network, Secure Hosting, Security Data Warehouse / Dashboards, DLP Technical, Service Design Validation, Privileged Access Control, Vulnerability Management, Production Security project management, Production Resilience
• Application Production domain: This domain operates daily over 200 business applications that make up Arval's information system. The main goal is to ensure the smooth functioning and support of these applications, addressing any issues that arise and implementing improvements as needed.
• Infrastructure Domain: Manage, Deploy and support Arval infrastructure hosted in BNPP Datacenter. Define and Enrich Infrastructure service catalog, anticipate infrastructure capacity planning and integrate security and compliance requirements. The infrastructure domain consists of 4 teams : Network, Digital Working, Windows, Storage&Virtualisation
• Technical Office Domain: contributes to the preparation and validation of Project Architecture Overview (PAO), drives obsolescence, manage Production Cloud competency center and provide technology expertise (ExaCC, Secure Transport).

The Database Administrator (DBA) designs, manages and administers database management systems.

He/she ensures the consistency, quality, safety and permanent accessibility of information.

Responsibilities

- Administering and maintaining databases in operational condition:

- Guaranteeing data availability and quality

- Defining access permissions and data security issues

- Implementing backup systems to ensure the integrity of all database data

- Ensuring that backups are made in accordance with the strategy defined by each business line

- Ensuring the ability to restore data in the event of an incident or for investigation purposes

- Providing development teams and application support teams with new versions of databases

- Making version changes, managing obsolescence

- Deploying security patches published by database software publishers according to the frequency defined by BNP Paribas

- Implementing the monitoring and alert mechanisms necessary for the proper functioning of the databases (availability and capacity management)

- Updating documentation on database structure and operating procedures

- Ensuring technological monitoring in order to maintain the suitability of performance and database specificities for meeting needs

- Implement automation procedures to manage reoccurring events or updates to the databases system.

Providing technical support to users

- Providing support to developers and application support teams

- Intervening in the event of incidents which limit the performance of databases or access to information

- Active participation in post-mortems for major and/or recurring database incidents

- Incident contribution. Assist the incident management team and be first point of contact for Arval network related incident.

• Be autonomous on his asset (Senior to expert level) and motivated on the daily tasks.
• Be an active member of the squad (often multi-technologies).
• Be proactive by raising alerts when its flagged, try to understand the global context and suggest how to solve an issue (without focusing only on his subpart). it will also help to understand better the rest of the team (who will not necessarily work on the same tool)
• Have proper communication with the Business (English language)
• Have some knowledge regarding monitoring tools (Dynatrace, )
• Provide his/her technical expertise to suggest optimization and technical enhancements

Specific Technical skills required for this role:

Database Systems : Oracle, MySQL, PostGre

Knowledge of the resilience procedures of IT production: DRP

Skills Referential

BehaviouralSkills:

• Communication skills - oral & written
• Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
• Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving
• Attention to detail / rigor

Transversal Skills:

• Analytical Ability
• Ability to develop and adapt a process
• Ability to set up relevant performance indicators
• Ability to understand, explain and support change
• Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Education Level:

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years