Oracle Database Administrator

About the role

The primary work location(s) will be at 701 W. 51st, Austin, Texas 78751. This position is 3 days remote with 2 days (Mon & Fri) required to be onsite at the location listed above. Interviews will be conducted in person.

Responsibilities

• Enters codes to create production databases.
• Selects and enters codes of utility programs to monitor database performance.
• Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system.
• Reviews and corrects programs.
• Answers user questions.
• Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base.
• Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance.
• Performs data modeling and prototyping.
• Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models.
• Performs security recovery procedures.
• Determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements.
• Maintains data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary.
• Maintains database performance and recommends efficiency improvements.
• Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures.
• Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures.
• Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems.
• Assists with the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and implementing databases.
• Assists in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security.
• Assists in the selection of database management software.
• Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming work.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies.
• Has working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies.
• Ensures that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data(via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards.
• Provides support to users in obtaining data / information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.

Qualifications

• Years Required/Preferred Experience: 10 Required
• Database experience: 8 Required
• Experience with Oracle, Microsoft SQL: 8 Required
• Experience with Relational Database Administration: 8 Required
• Experience in database design, analysis and performance tuning: 8 Required
• Experience in database structures, data analysis, performance tuning: 8 Required
• Experience designing enterprise applications and/or services: 8 Required
• Experience creating technical and functional design documentation: 8 Required
• Experience within software development Life Cycle using Agile methodology: 8 Required
• Experience with multi-tier system/application development: 8 Required
• Experience with large volume databases, high availability, and disaster recovery infrastructure: 6 Preferred
• Experience with Azure: 6 Preferred
• Ability to Extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources into Azure SQL: 3 Preferred
• Experience in DevOps technology including CI/CD pipeline and build and deployment tools such as Git: 3 Preferred
• Experience in Java/J2EE Enterprise Development: 1 Preferred
• Azure certification is preferred: 1 Preferred
• DBA Associate certifications are preferred: 1 Preferred