Ingres DBA (Any UK base)
Capgemini is one of the leading Application Services providers globally and is a major player in the UK across all key sectors such as Government, Aerospace & Defence, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Retail, Energy and Utilities.
The Application Services Practice focusses on major UK clients, on a global basis, to support, maintain and enhance their Application & Infrastructure landscapes. We support some of the largest installations of Business Applications such as SAP & Oracle as well as some of the most agile platforms on Salesforce.com or a plethora of Open Source applications.
Our Application Service exploits some of the latest market technologies & methods around Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration, Process Mining, DevOps, Agile, etc. and you will be part of the team that helps customers to keep one step ahead of their competition.
The UK AMS Delivery capability is globally renowned for sustained client service and delivery excellence. It is recognised by global advisory firms ISG and HfS as a market leader in the provision of next generation Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) services to help clients deliver their Digital Transformation strategies.
The focus of your role
The role will involve providing DBA operational support and minor enhancements. You may be expected to lead more junior resources and provide all aspects of technical systems support including setting up support procedures and implementing support best practices.
The candidate is expected to be able to work independently and as part of a team, being able to demonstrate an ability to develop other colleagues.
Providing operational DBA support and technical consultancy in areas including, but not restricted to, the following:
• Supporting the operation of the client’s multiple Ingres database instances, including minor enhancements and ensuring production database changes are reflected in DEV/UAT databases
• Providing KT/assistance to 2nd line support team on database issues
• Supporting the custom database data distribution solution
• Taking part in a 24x7 3-person 3rd line on-call support rota
• Linux shell scripting Bash/Korn and maintain applications/scripts written in Bash/Bourne shell
• Providing 3rd line support for the client’s application universe
• Supporting universe application running on HPUX then on Linux following a platform migration
• C development of enhancements to the universe application
• Ingres development of enhancements to the universe ABF Screens
• Strong Ingres, Linux and C background
• At least 5 years’ experience of Ingres DBA support
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Client-facing experience
• Excellent all-round general IT skills
• Experience of working in a ITIL compliant Support environment
• A positive, can-do attitude
• Able to travel to client locations
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Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
We work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions. Working for Capgemini you get to be at the forefront of designing future experiences, which truly impact our clients and wider society for the better.
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