Senior Database Administrator

For the period of quarantine Kyivstar continues his work and takes care that our clients keep in touch with their relatives and friends, being duly provided with high quality information. Our activity hasn't stopped and most of our employees work remotely. During this complicated period we conduct job interviews online, make job offers and arrange remote working mode for our candidates. 

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We offer

• A unique experience of working for the largest and most beloved mobile operator in Ukraine;
• Real opportunity to ship digital products to millions of customers;
• A competitive salary;
• Annual bonus
• Paid sick leave and vacation
• Financial aid in different life situations
• Possibility to work remotely at regular intervals
• Flexible working hours
• Medical and life insurance;
• Great possibilities for professional development and career growth;
• Friendly & Collaborative Environment.

Job purpose

• The IT Database Administrator administers, and oversees database implementations and design, in this case for on premise for on premise database clusters. DBA is responsible for database administration, performance monitoring and tuning, capacity planning, new database implementation, security, patches and upgrades. He/she troubleshoots problems related to databases, enforces policies and standards for all database activities, ensures all databases including the backups are healthy, monitors as well as maintains and organizes reporting for the databases.
• The database implementation to be maintained shall be linked to Telco Grade BSS applications, which are highly critical to business environment

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for developing, establishing and enforcing policies and standards for all the database activities, to ensure that they are consistent with industry best practices.
• Work to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high resilience and performance tuning. Provide the optimum solution in Server, Storage, Networking and Middle ware services
• Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime Should have strong Knowledge about the architecture and troubleshooting of Database Concepts / Features.
• Good knowledge and experience in troubleshooting Performance Issues and Preparing RCA's.
• Develop stored procedures, triggers, indexes, and views in support of development projects.

Skills

• Domain experience: Database - Cassandra, MariaDB, Oracle, MS SQL, Progress OpenEdge
• Databases installation for Telecom BSS systems in Standalone and In Cluster Servers, Patching, Upgrading them.
• Troubleshooting the Databases Setup Failure Issues. Should be good in troubleshooting Cluster Failover Issues and analyzing the log Files
• Should have knowledge about new features in Databases and implementing them.
• Design and implement DR scenarios and optimize RTOs and RPOs as per Business requirements.

Working at VEON demands a high standard of business ethics and adherence to our legal obligations, our values and our Code of Conduct and supporting compliance policies and procedures. Our pioneering spirit is embodied in our values to be customer obsessed, entrepreneurial, innovative, collaborative, and truthful. Being truthful requires us to act ethically, honestly, and with integrity.