Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life's other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation. For more information, please visit solera.com.

The Role

This position is responsible for acting as a primary technical resource for the support and administration of Oracle Servers in both large scale production and development environments across multiple products. This position continually evaluates the entire Oracle Server topology to identify and create plans to address performance issues, architectural shortcomings, and other opportunities for improvement. The fundamental goal is to ensure the production environment is always operational and performing optimally. This position requires strong organizational and collaboration skills and partnering with numerous distributed teams is a must for success. This position is a key resource contributing to the technical growth and development of the Oracle DBA team through mentoring and training of other team members.

What You'll Do

• Ensure production Oracle Servers maintain the company's requirements for HA/DR, Security, and RPO/RTO
• Provide on-call support (as part of a rotation) for production alerts or issues both during and outside normal working hours.
• Provide support during maintenance windows or deployment/release activities.
• Join war-room calls to triage and troubleshoot outages as they occur, including after-hours and weekends.
• Build and improve automation around configuring and administering Oracle Servers
• Optimize performance of Oracle Servers and determine the most effective ways to increase performance including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changes.
• Continuous evaluation and implementation of proactive measures to improve performance and stability of Oracle Server
• Create and maintain procedural and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with other teams in enterprise level projects and provide support / guidance as needed.
• Lead assigned quarterly projects from initial concept and drive to successful completion.
• Identify technical developmental opportunities and provide guidance to Mid and Junior Level DBA team members.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field or related experience
• Intrinsic drive to improve processes and workflows
• Keen intellect and willingness to work on a global team

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company's needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.