Senior Database Administrator QAD

Job Summary

Medline India is looking to hire an experienced Administrator who can independently manage QAD landscape for its place of work, located in Pune, India. The candidate will effectively be working on the QAD support & projects working closely with other Admins and a team of QAD Dev team based out of both onsite & offshore.

The person will be responsible for ensuring QAD environment, progress databases & systems operate efficiently and securely by managing the core QAD DBA activities with Progress DBA, QAD NetUI, QXTEND & Technical issue. In addition, the person is expected to have good understanding of Database AI & BI files working and has to be pro-active in monitoring QAD environment & system to avoid issues from application ensuring high availability.

Required Skills: 

• 8+years of QAD (Enterprise Edition (EE)) and Progress products technical experience which includes being well versed with RDBMS concepts, comfortable performing Progress DBA tasks and YAB Administration. 

• Min 5 yrs of hands-on experience in end-end management of QAD Landscape. 

• QAD Financial patch & add-on tool installation. 

• QAD i19 add-on package installation & setup. 

• QAD YAB & add-on tools upgrade. 

• Good Knowledge of Unix, Linux 

• Manage physical aspects of database such as DBMS setup, backups, extent addition, AfterImage file management, Schema addition, Dump load. 

• Working with QAD Development team in Schema management, suggesting schema modification if any. 

• Ensure progress databases systems operate efficiently and securely. 

• Proactive production monitoring & manual monitoring, if any. 

• Non-Production Monitoring 

• Perform database refreshes and other DBA tasks 

• Create performance, DB, Table & index analysis reports. 

• Working on assigned Incidents & tasks and resolving them as per defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs). 

  

Additional skills: 

• Building & implementing process in QAD landscape. 

• Experience leading a team would be a plus. 

• Experience with Qxtend, QAD internationalizations is a plus 

• A strong let’s-do-it attitude 

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills. 

• Likes working independently, on multiple assignments simultaneously 

• Pro-active attitude and proposing improvements where applicable 

• Excellent English verbal and communication skills 

 

Educational Qualification: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science / Four year Graduation degree or Post graduation in Software (MCA / MCS / MCM) 

 

Benefits : 

• Opportunity to work on QAD 2017 EE    

• Exposure beyond just QAD systems, like TMS. 

• This role is best suited for someone with zest and intrapreneurial spirit.

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Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits please click here. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and the Employee Service Corp.

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