oracle system engineer

Join our team!

KBC Bank, the parent company of the Hungarian K&H Bank, provides banking services in 5 European countries.
The international IT solutions of the banking group, covering several European countries, takes place with Hungarian and Belgian colleagues in Hungary and Belgium, therefore not only our services are international, but also our teams.
Our responsibilities range from day-to-day operation to application development and its operation.
We are constantly expanding the Hungarian side of the team, which is why we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated new employees with junior, medior or possibly senior work experience.

The Oracle team is responsible for the Management of the Oracle database environment providing the technical oracle database components, maintain the oracle environment in the KBC eco system and provide the necessary Oracle database support to the application teams.

What you can expect working with us:

• You can make sure your future career is steady within our company
• Life-long learning and plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself
• Competitive salary as well as other benefits such as:
• 10% customizable cafeteria,
• annual performance-based reward,
• company phone with mobile internet, that you can use for private purposes as well
• employee discount at the bank
• Your English language skills won’t be worn out as you can use it on a daily basis
• Flexible schedule as we don’t use ‘Clock in Clock out’ system 
• As our focus is on teamwork we consider it important to hang out in the "open office" together, but you have the option to spend 3 days per week from home
• We value your insight and are always open to suggestions
• International environment with a cheerful work atmosphere
• Green office in Millennium Park, equipped with:
• bicycle storage and showers
• restaurant with panoramic views over the Danube and the National Theatre
• free coffee and snacks in our community area where we hang out and play darts, and have many other dining options in the surrounding area

What we expect from You: 

• System engineer unix with oracle knowledge or strong interests to build up strong oracle knowledge.

• You maintain frameworks and scripts, mostly written in Perl. You are also able to adapt them to new oracle versions or new requirements.
• You help the application teams with their oracle issues. This includes investigating performance issues, proposing concrete actions to the application teams, supporting the team to build performant queries. But it can also include changes
• all actions that are necessary to keep the environment up and running (daily checks, proactive actions in case of technical changes in datacenter, …)
• Follow up security recommendations (proactively and reactively) and minimize the operational risk
• maintenance of all Oracle frameworks used to perform Oracle management and are written in Perl.
• dealing with all systems interfacing with the Oracle database, like Centrify, UAC, Cyberark, VMWare, Bladelogic, SNOW.
• responsible for the life cycle management of all Oracle Database products. For Oracle server, this includes building, testing, rollout (using Bladelogic), communications, follow up of version updates. For the end point packages (oracle client, toad, SQL Developer, ..), this means describing the requirements to the end point packaging team, testing and following up package version updates.
• backup and recovery of all data on the Oracle servers managed by the team
• participate in the DRP exercises and do the necessary actions as required by the general DRP scenario.
• all actions necessary to perform capacity management.
• Linux system management for the servers in scope of the database team
• Active Perl knowledge: the ability to read, understand and debug existing code as well as write new code.

• Enough Linux experience to do system management on servers in our management
• It's an added value having knowledge of the following products

• UAC
• Bladelogic
• OUD

What you can expect during the recruitment process:

• After sending your CV in English, expect a two-round interview process, one at our office in Budapest (in Hungarian), and one online in English with the Belgian team leader
• An efficient selection process is important for both of us, so we try to make it as fast as possible, and even if you are not selected we will give you a detailed feedback.