Oracle Database Administrator

Company Description

We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.

Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.

Our people are the real jet stars!

Job Description

• Join the Airline Operations team in Jetstar!
• Full time permanent role based at our head office in Collingwood (hybrid working options available) 
• Staff Travel Benefits from Day One 

The Oracle Database Administrator is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and repair of the company's Oracle database systems. This includes ensuring the performance, availability, and security of the databases, as well as the integrity and confidentiality of the data they contain.

A substantial portion of this role will involve collaboration and teamwork with other team members. As such this role is based in the Melbourne office to be able to leverage the facilities and tools required to support this kind of work while also providing flexibility to work remotely with offshore teams who work in different time zones.

Key Responsibilities:

• Respond to and resolve incidents, service requests, changes and problems relating to Engineering Oracle database instances
• Monitor and optimize database performance, including tuning queries, creating indexes, and troubleshooting issues
• Manage database security and integrity, availability, backup and restoration activities
• Proactively manage capacity related concerns and respond to alerting identified by monitoring
• Evaluate, recommend and action vulnerability, patching and software upgrade activities.
• Uplift existing systems and management tools
• Identify service delivery improvement opportunities
• Design, implement, and maintain database systems based on business and technical requirements
• Maintain documentation of database systems, including data dictionaries and change management log
• Collaborate with development teams to design and implement database schemas and object structures
• Provide technical input and support for Engineering projects
• Coordination of Oracle database infrastructure resources as needed.
• Make configuration changes to achieve objectives

You'Ll Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related Information Technology discipline (preferred)
• Industry related certification in Oracle and Linux favourable
• ITIL Foundation V4
• 10 plus years Oracle DBA experience
• Working in team environments and to deadlines
• Proficiency in SQL and PL/SQL
• Experience with Oracle Cloud, Oracle RAC, and Oracle Data Guard is a plus
• Familiarity with SQL Server, Red Hat Linux OS, Windows Server OS, Active Directory, Cloud favourable
• Database Sharding and Partitioning:  Skills in distributing data across multiple databases (sharding) and dividing large tables into smaller, more manageable segments (partitioning) for scalability.
• Application-Specific Performance Tuning:  Deep expertise in optimizing performance for applications for high-transaction systems
• Applied understanding of Agile methodologies and ways of working.
• Airline Experience preferred

Applications will close on the 29th of October

Your Life at Jetstar Is Unlike Any Other

Put the craft in aircraft: There’s a new fleet of A321LR NEO’s waiting for your arrival. Beyond Jetstar, our teams get exposure to projects related to the Qantas Group’s A320/1, B787 and A321 Freighters.
 

Live the travel dream: You and your nominated travel companions can takeoff more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount.
 

Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to takeoff together and find ways to help their teammates soar.
 

There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar: For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to takeoff with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.

We’re Jetstar. Let’s takeoff together

We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply now

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