Database Engineer Specialist

at  Worldpay

Are you ready to write your next chapter?
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.
What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open – winning and failing as one.
We’re looking for a Database Engineer to join our evolving NAP team to help us unleash the potential of every business.
Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Oracle Golden Gate
• Cloud Database Experience
• Experience with scripting/automation – perl/python/bash/Ansible

• Designing/building and documenting large and complex Oracle database environments including Exadata
• Handle the databases capacity planning based on Worldpay business growth and identify ways/new database features to adapt to Worldpay business needs and new technologies.
• Troubleshoot complex database performance and identify solutions to maintain/improve Oracle database performance.
• Consolidate and refine Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture best practices within Worldpay.
• Creating technical plans /implementing complex Oracle database environments upgrade/migrations to new platforms
• Perform environment refreshes with physical and logical database backups.
• Maintain Oracle software lifecycle and install new versions of the Oracle RDBMS and its tools and any other tools that access the Oracle database.
• Creates and maintains all databases required for development, testing and production usage.
• Deliver all solutions with an “automation first” approach that reduces and ultimately removes the need for any manual intervention for builds and deployments – ensuring consistency and speed for all environment delivery and change.
• Take ownership of new initiatives and defining requirements and acceptance criteria for Proof of Concepts and taking suitable solutions into Test and up to Production environments.
• Generating innovative solutions in work situations; applying “out of the box” thinking and challenging the status quo in dealing with work problems and opportunities
• Define, develop and maintain documentation knowledgebase.
• Use your knowledge to mentor and to create training materials and execute trainings for the rest of engineering team/other teams.
• Proactively identify improvements and enhancements to working practices.
• Resolution of production incidents and working alongside with Oracle Support and the business stakeholders to help to build a positive profile of the team that fully supports the Worldpay values.
• Compliance with incident resolution best practice
• Ability to work within an agile environment