I Have a New Job

The last six years I was working as an Oracle & SQL Server DBA for the public administration of canton Lucerne in the heart of Switzerland. Besides the DBA role I was also maintaining a few database centric .NET applications. The public administration of canton Luzern committed to Microsoft products with an enterprise agreement. That means no more Oracle databases in the long term. I was offered to do Microsoft MOSS (Share Point) instead. But somehow I feel at home with Oracle products more than with Microsoft products. That’s why I decided not to take the chance and go for MOSS but started looking for a new job.

In my old job I was working with a wide range of products. Too wide to delve deeply into all of them. I want to narrow this range and focus on something. In the past I already put most of my learning efforts into Oracle technology. And I want to focus even more on Oracle. It’s what I like most and do best. Preferably my new job shouldn’t be in-house IT but at a managed services provider. The company I was looking for should not be a pure managed services provider but also do software development. Perhaps I could use my developer skills too at some point.

I didn’t have to look far. These days it’s easy to find a new job because there are lots of opportunities for database administrators. Starting on February 1st I will work as an Oracle DBA for Abraxas Informatik AG in Zurich. Abraxas’ activities is divided into three areas:

• Business Process Integration
• Software Development
• Managed Services

I count the days…