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Who are we?
Techwave is a leading global IT and engineering services and solutions company revolutionizing digital transformations. We believe in enabling clients to maximize the potential and achieve a greater market with a wide array of technology services, including, but not limited to, Enterprise Resource Planning, Application Development, Analytics, Digital, and the Internet of things (IoT).
Founded in 2004, headquartered in Houston, TX, USA, Techwave leverages its expertise in Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications, and Engineering Services to enable businesses accelerate their growth.
Plus, we're a team of dreamers and doers who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
And we want YOU to be a part of it.
Job Description
Microsoft SQL Server
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL Server versions 2008 through 2022 including installation, configuration, and performance tuning.
- Experience with SQL Server High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions:
- Failover Cluster Instances (FCI)
- Always On Availability Groups (multi-node setups)
- Transactional log shipping, database mirroring, and replication
- Administration of Azure SQL PaaS services (Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instances).
- Managing SQL Server on Azure IaaS (VM-based) deployments.
- Performing database refreshes from Production to Development/Test environments.
- Database migrations between IaaS and PaaS environments.
- User and access management.
- Backup & Recovery Strategy: Designing and validating backup/restore strategies (full, differential, log backups).
- Security & Compliance: Managing encryption (TDE), auditing, and security hardening.
- Monitoring & Alerts: Setting up and managing SQL Server monitoring tools (native or third-party).
- Capacity Planning: Monitoring storage and performance trends for proactive scaling.
- Maintaining detailed SOPs, runbooks, and configuration documentation
- Automating routine DBA tasks to reduce manual effort
- Working closely with application and infrastructure teams to support releases, schema changes, and performance testing
- Handling Sev1/Sev2 incidents with root cause analysis and reporting
Oracle Database
- Installation and administration of Oracle 19c or higher (Grid Infrastructure and RDBMS) on RHEL 9 or later.
- Configuring and managing ASM (Automatic Storage Management) on raw storage with redundancy and multipathing (using udev rules or ASMLib).
- Setting up and maintaining Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) with ASM on raw storage.
- Configuring and managing RMAN backups using RMAN catalog integrated with OEM 13c.
- Installing, configuring, and administering Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 13c, including agents and OMS Middleware.
- Managing OEM incident rules, notification setup, and alerting.
- Regular patching of OEM OMS & agents.
- Quarterly patching of Oracle environments (Grid Infrastructure and RDBMS homes).
- Troubleshooting Oracle performance issues including:
- Application slowness
- Disk latency
- SQL query tuning & index optimization
- Identifying fragmentation
- Memory tuning (SGA/PGA)
- Performing upgrades of Oracle GI, RDBMS, and OEM OMS/agents to latest versions.
- Managing Oracle schema refreshes, users, roles, and profiles.
- User access management.
- Security & Compliance: Implementing auditing, encryption, and database hardening best practices.
- Monitoring & Health Checks: Regular database health monitoring (using OEM or scripts).
- Storage & Capacity Planning: Proactive space management for ASM disk groups and tablespaces, forecasting growth for scalability.
- Backup & Recovery Drills: Performing and validating disaster recovery exercises.
- Maintaining detailed SOPs, runbooks, and configuration documentation
- Automating routine DBA tasks to reduce manual effort.
- Working closely with application and infrastructure teams to support releases, schema changes, and performance testing
- Handling Sev1/Sev2 incidents with root cause analysis and reporting
DevOps & Automation
- Experience with version control and CI/CD tools:
- Git
- Ansible
- Puppet
- Terraform (Azure and On-Premises)
- Scripting and automation:
Operating Systems
- Windows Server 2012 and later
- Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
