Computing Engineer Job in , , Switzerland

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Computing Engineer Job Description

As a Database Engineer in the Database Services (DB) Group, your main activities will consist of:

• Database administration of production databases (Oracle RAC, other technologies) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Configuration and support of database platforms: architecture, evolution, migration, upgrades and patches, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability and security.
• Consultancy, assistance and advice to end users, including database design.
• Development of software modules following IT-DB guidelines and projects needs.
• Sharing domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and training to peers.

• Operation of large scale production database environments.
• Technical and troubleshooting skills with relational Oracle databases.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, replication techniques, clustering, partitioning and security issues.
• Backups, restores, recovery.

• • Experience on different DBMS (PostgreSQL and MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases.
  • Knowledge of SAN and NAS storage.
  • Database operations experience in an Agile development environment - Exposure to puppet configuration management.

Computing Engineer Job Requirements

Master's degree or PhD or equivalent relevant experience in the fields of computing science or a science discipline (e.g. physics) with significant computing content.

The technical competencies required for this post are:

• Database administration: familiarity with large-scale and high-availability database environments.
• System software administration: knowledge of Linux, knowledge of enterprise storage management (SAN or NAS) would be an asset.
• Programming/software development: SQL knowledge is required. Unix shell script, Perl, or Python programming would be an advantage.
• Requirements definition and management: ability to collect the needs of users and to manage the different phases of a project.
• Technical advice and guidance: ability to work with users to design and improve database applications .

Computing Engineer Application Information

This vacancy will be filled as soon as possible, and applications should normally reach us no later than 14.01.2018.

These functions require:

• Participation in a regular stand-by duty, including nights, Sundays and public holidays.
• Work during nights, Sundays and public holidays.
• Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.
• Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

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