Ethos Technologies is a premium supplier of technology services and consultation. Based in Beijing, Ethos’ global environment brings together solid methodologies and robust talent from all worlds. Its clients benefit from working with a partner that is familiar in its culture and yet different in its contributions.

Like its employees, Ethos’ clients come in all shapes and sizes ranging from the leading news portals seeking a modern facelift to the start-up creating a business to leverage the hottest internet technologies.

In addition, Ethos helps large corporations evolve into global businesses. Consulting and building inroads into China is a core skill and capability of Ethos’ team.

Established in 2005 by 3 founders in a coffee shop, Ethos now encompasses 150 employees in 3 locations: Oslo, Stockholm, and Beijing. Its annual revenue is €3m with clients from over 15 different countries.

While coffee shops have come and gone, the Ethos vision has remained unchanged: to build a company in China founded on strong Western principles and committed to delivering excellent services in software development. Its values were sealed in its name: Ethos.

The Oracle DBA interfaces with multiple members of the technical and support teams. The DBA demonstrates an enterprise view and understanding of systems and technologies. The DBA is responsible for database design, installation, maintenance, monitoring, and upgrades of database systems. This includes documenting systems in accordance with company standards. The DBA serves as a point of escalation and review for issues or concerns identified by the customer or the monitoring system on a 24x7 basis.
The DBA will help develop solutions to improve database environments and enhance server reliability and performance. The DBA is responsible for designing database solutions to best meet customer needs, as well as making and presenting recommendations to improve existing infrastructures.

DBA Skills required:
Designing and implementing database solutions based on development team requests and needs
Presenting the development team with recommendations regarding hardware and software.
Installing database software, maintaining appropriate maintenance levels and tuning.
Evaluating, recommending, installing and configuring database related software to meet customer requirements
Installing and configuring tools for event monitoring, capacity planning, performance monitoring, etc. and making recommendations based on results.
Level 3 troubleshooting and resolution of database problems.
Leading technical projects from start to finish while working within organizational change management and project management guidelines.
Performing database upgrades including planning, scheduling, testing, and coordination with the customer.
Performing database backups and recoveries.
Responding to outages both during normal business hours and in an after-hours, on-call capacity.
Producing documentation for use in configuration, repair and troubleshooting of managed database systems.
Coordinating and interfacing with other department team members, and service providers to resolve issues.
Participating in capacity planning and disaster recovery exercises while producing supporting documentation.
Taking initiative on special projects to improve the overall operation and move the group forward on new technologies, areas of expertise and overall business growth.
Bachelor degree and above is preferred.

DBA Responsibilities Include:
Include Global Logic comparable education requirements
Oracle RDBMS installation, tuning, and version upgrades.
Expertise in Oracle versions 8.0.6 to 10g.
Oracle RDBMS on Solaris and Unix
Extensive experience with Oracle HA Systems such as: 9i and 10g RAC, Oracle Data Guard, and Clustered File Systems like ASM and OCFS implemented on Redhat Linux versions 3.x and 4.x.
Implementing Disaster Recovery and Backup solutions.
PL SQL creation and tuning.
Troubleshooting database and SQL performance issues.
Experience in technical concepts coupled with the ability to communicate complex technical information in straightforward terms.
Experience with and a broad understanding of implementing and managing complex technical projects with the ability to solve technical problems.
Willingness to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic 24X7 environment