Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced database professional who will design, implement, and maintain, our relational database systems for performance and reliability. The ideal candidate must have the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and interface with developers and application owners to improve processes.

Responsibilities include:

Install, configure, and administer Oracle RAC Databases
Perform database upgrades, space management, database security, performance tuning, capacity planning.
Configure Oracle Dataguard and perform database migrations
Install, Configure, troubleshoot, and support Oracle GoldenGate Replication
Design and Implement backup and recovery strategies for production databases using Oracle RMAN incremental backup methods
Perform and produce procedural, knowledge, and troubleshooting documentation
Submit service requests to software vendors and drive to resolution
Collaborate with development team on performance management
Utilize OEM to monitor database health
Conduct thorough research and provide guidance on database design
Review processes and identify areas of improvement
Experience with PLSQL and SQL
Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues
Provide consultation and guidance to development teams
Build tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot and automate our tasks where possible (Ansible, Terraform, Python)
24/7 rotation-based on-call support

Qualifications/Expectations:

5+ years of experience with administration of production databases
Very strong understanding of database theory
Near mastery of a particular DBMS and deep understanding of its internals
Extensive experience in performance tuning of OLTP applications
Advanced UNIX/Linux skills
A passion for ownership over our organization’s most critical asset: data
Experience supporting database infrastructure in an extremely large (25000+ system) environment
Track record of working with very large-scale database deployments
Excellent Communication skills