DevOps Database Engineer

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work?

The combination of rapid growth on a global scale in an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like you — ambitious and pro-active with an entrepreneurial spirit who creates and seizes opportunities.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, innovative, and successful. And this is your chance to be part of that story.

About Cognizant Oracle Services

Customers seek Oracle partners with the specific skills and experience they need to succeed. Oracle Expertise constitutes proof of competency, demonstrated customer success and continued commitment, whether a partner is building on, selling, or implementing Oracle technology. Expertise in a specific cloud service or product family is attained by completing focused 'Qualifiers' (criteria, such as maintaining several Oracle-certified individuals) which opens doors to targeted go-to-market benefits.

What you bring to the team

• Writing PL-SQL, performance tuning and database administration.
• Enforce best practices, standards and guidelines across the domain.
• Since you will be part of a true DevOps squad, you are also expected to contribute to monitoring & alerting, risk, resilience.
• Expect contribution towards Operations related activities (incident management, standby, release management, change and problem management).
• Also share your knowledge and skills with other engineers in the squad.
• Knowledge of Oracle Apex along with the ability to build some automation testing of front end screens

Hard skills

• Must have experience working with Oracle 12c or greater
• Must be having experience of working on DBA activities. Must be able to identify and implement improvements required in Database
• Must have experience to write and analyze complex PL-SQL, tuning and optimizing queries.
• Must be able to write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata)
• Knowledge of Oracle Apex
• Since you will be part of a true DevOps squad, you are also expected to contribute to monitoring & alerting, risk and resilience.
• Able to write unit tests and functional tests preferably in Cucumber
• Experience with SQL (Oracle)
• Experience with Linux and Windows based machines
• Experience with networking (FTP, XFB, MQ, EMS)
• Experience with using Docker/containers for testing
• Experience with Azure Pipelines

Soft skills

• You have a helicopter view: overseeing a wide domain and any consequences certain (design) decisions have.
• You can remember or research previous decisions and experiences that lead us to where we are now. On the other hand, you are not afraid to 'get your hands dirty' and become involved in complex analysis and implementation questions.
• Good communication skills to collaborate with business users, colleague architects, and squad members.
• Ability to communicate technical solutions in business terms and can influence and persuade others with an open mindset.
• Resourceful, flexible, analytically strong and, when needed, critical.
• Good experience in stakeholder management in an international setting
• Ability to coach peers and stakeholders
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

Diversity And Inclusion At Cognizant

At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as “Women Empowered”, “Embrace LGBTQ+” and “Race Equality Network”.

The Cognizant community:

• Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world.
• We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen.
• We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right.
• We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.

About us:

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Disclaimer:

Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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