Sr. Oracle DBA

About the role

Assist the Database team with various ongoing tasks, including but not limited to database installation, configuration and hardening, backup validation, performance tuning and general database monitoring. Provide support to Application Development staff.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Database team with various ongoing tasks, including but not limited to database installation, configuration and hardening, backup validation, performance tuning and general database monitoring, as well as recommend best practices and procedures
• Install, upgrade and maintain Oracle databases on AIX, including backup and recovery
• Allocate storage and plan future storage requirements for the database system
• Work with teams of application programmers, system architects to create solutions to meet business goals
• Perform off-hours (evening or weekend work) as needed for emergency or maintenance tasks
• Provide support for internal users and external data exchange partners
• Perform optimization and tuning activities, including capacity planning, tracking historical usage, trending future resource needs, and modifying resource allocations as needed
• Provide recommendations on technical architecture
• Provide recommendations on Oracle Advance Security including TDE, Oracle Wallet and remote authentication
• Provide hands-on training and mentoring for other database administrative staff
• Provide support to Application Development staff
• Perform root cause analysis and recommend remediation for issues that arise
• Handle Requests and Incidents submitted through ITSM tickets

Requirements

12+ years of experience using specialized software to store and organize data, including capacity planning, installation, configuration, database design, migration, performance monitoring, security, troubleshooting, backup and data recovery.

• 84 months of experience as an Oracle DBA in AIX/Unix environment, including database implementations, upgrades, conversions, and consolidations; database compliance, security, and auditing, including Oracle Advanced Security, remote authentication, and Oracle Wallet configuration
• 60 months of experience installing/maintaining/tuning databases that support OBIEE and Oracle Business Intelligence Application software
• 84 months of experience with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System, Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Database Security
• 84 months of experience with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), including Backup and Repository Configuration & Maintenance as well as Implementation of RMAN Backup & Recovery using Commvault
• 84 months of experience installing, upgrading, patching and using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) to monitor and analyze database issues and find solutions to correct the problems
• 24 months of experience maintaining Oracle databases on AIX that support SAP Business Object Info View, and applications that use Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Schedule

100% onsite.