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Rabobank Australia is the world’s leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. We are structured as a cooperative. Our purpose is clear: we enable our clients to feed the world sustainably. True to our cooperative origins, our focus lies with our clients and our employees, not shareholders, so we always put people first. Our great working conditions, broad training programs and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working with Rabobank.
About the role
Rabobank has an opening for a SQL Server Database Administrator on a fixed term contract. You will join a highly engaged team centralised in Sydney to support the Asia Pacific region who work in a hybrid mix of working from home and the Rabobank CBD office. In this role you will support the Bank’s database systems
If you’re looking for a great work culture, great work life balance and flexible working, opportunities to continuously learn - this is the role for you!
Top Role Accountabilities:
- Providing primary support to the bank's MS SQL Database landscape
- Ongoing monitoring, evaluation & analysis of the database environments to provide optimum performance
- Ensuring ongoing performance tuning & optimisation to the bank's Database infrastructure
- Providing regular review, analysis & reporting of current database capacity & forecast medium-long term growth
- Ensuring the database environment is maintained at the latest patch level & make recommendations for enhancements & version upgrades
- Defining & implementing Backup & recovery procedures & ensure regular review, analysis & reporting of system availability
- Identify areas for automation enhancements through scripting & scheduling of tasks
- Ensure that all reported issues are tracked through to closure, liaising with development teams and management as necessary
- Ensure IT Infrastructure is insulated from unauthorised access, virus infection or any security vulnerabilities and conforms to Rabobank Standards and Policies
- Create and maintain technical documentation for new installations and systems changes as required
To be successful in the role, you will have:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a SQL Server DBA
- MS SQL Server (2014, 2016, 2019, 2022) experience
- Capable in Database replication technologies (Always On, Database Mirroring, Log Shipping)
- Proficient in SQL tuning, PL/SQL, Unix, Shell Scripting
- Proven performance tuning skills (especially in a data warehouse environment)
- Shell / batch / Perl / PowerShell scripting knowledge
- Linux & Microsoft Windows basic System Administration
- Oracle (11g, 12c) &/or Oracle Exadata experience is desirable
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to be a team player
- Ability to identify priorities & work successfully to deadlines
- Ability to work autonomously & with conflicting priorities
*Note - You must be available to work outside normal working hours as required & be part of the On-Call roster.
Rabobank is committed to a culture where diversity and inclusion is valued, respected & encouraged. We welcome applicants from diverse cultures, faith and sexual orientation.
If you’d like to discuss how we can make our opportunities more accessible to you, please let a member of the Talent Acquisition team know.
Applicants must hold valid work rights for this role.
