Senior Database Administrator QAD

Overview

Medline India is hiring an experienced administrator to independently manage the QAD landscape at its Pune, India workplace. The role supports QAD systems and projects alongside other admins and the QAD development team, working both onsite and offshore.

What you'll do

• Ensure the QAD environment, Progress databases and systems operate efficiently and securely.
• Manage core QAD DBA activities across Progress DBA, QAD NetUI, QXTEND and technical issues.
• Monitor the QAD environment and systems proactively to avoid application issues and ensure high availability.
• Understand the working of Database AI and BI files.
• Manage the physical aspects of databases, including DBMS setup, backups, extent addition, AfterImage file management, schema addition and dump load.
• Work with the QAD development team on schema management and suggest schema modifications where needed.
• Install and set up QAD i19 add-on packages, QAD financial patches and add-on tools.
• Upgrade QAD YAB and add-on tools.
• Perform proactive production monitoring and manual monitoring, if any.
• Perform non-production monitoring, database refreshes and other DBA tasks.
• Create performance, DB, table and index analysis reports.
• Work on assigned incidents and tasks and resolve them within defined service level agreements (SLAs).
• Build and implement processes in the QAD landscape.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of QAD (Enterprise Edition (EE)) and Progress products technical experience.
• Well versed in RDBMS concepts.
• Comfortable performing Progress DBA tasks and YAB administration.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in end-to-end management of a QAD landscape.
• Experience with QAD financial patch and add-on tool installation.
• Experience with QAD i19 add-on package installation and setup.
• Experience with QAD YAB and add-on tools upgrade.
• Good knowledge of Unix and Linux.
• Excellent English verbal and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills.
• Ability to work independently on multiple assignments simultaneously.
• A strong let's-do-it attitude.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a four-year graduation degree, or post-graduation in software (MCA / MCS / MCM).

Nice to have

• Experience leading a team.
• Experience with QXTEND and QAD internationalizations.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.
• Work involves both onsite and offshore collaboration with the QAD development team.