Oracle Database Administrator

Company Description

Major Investment Bank

Job Description

Job Title : ORACLE DBA

Job Location : Raleigh (North Carolina)

Responsibilities:

• Timely resolution of system issues/problems while meeting/exceeding business SLAs.
• Work closely with the application development team in advancing their strategic initiatives.
• Build, monitor and continuously develop a high performance database infrastructure.
• Implement and continuously refine operational processes to ensure a stable, robust and highly efficient environment.
• Manage key application development clients, working on major projects and daily production support activities.
• Implement industry-wide best practices and daily health checks within host server and database environments.
• Work closely with internal IT partners on infrastructure strategies, operational readiness, engineering standards and designs.
• Oversee all aspects of assigned projects, ensuring successful delivery against project timelines.


Required Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in Technology Infrastructure.
• 7+ years of experience managing large Oracle database installations is required, preferably in an IT organization within Financial Services.
• Previous experience in working with Engineers and/or architects in the development of new product requirements.
• Previous experience dealing with internal customers and discussing/agreeing on priorities, allocation of resources and deadlines.
• Strong knowledge on the platforms below:
o Windows O.S. and system software, clustering, backups, storage management
o UNIX and Linux O.S. including core system tools such as NIS, DNS and NFS.
o Oracle, SQL and Sybase database technologies
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences or related field is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills
• People skills suitable for contributing as a senior team member with technical staff

Desired Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical ability
• Experience working with resource scheduling tools.
• Excellent negotiation skills when working with executives
• Good knowledge of business initiatives and requirements to facilitate forecasting
• Client focused
• Strong mediation and facilitation skills
• Ability to coordinate local teams and to manage complex logistics
• Teamwork and communication/information sharing
• Performance management expertise

Essential Hard Skills:

• Seven years’ experience as an Oracle DBA ideally including large databases and previous employment with a financial institution.
• 5 years’ experience with RMAN
• 3 years’ experience with Oracle RAC and ASM
• 3 experience in database cloning, refreshes and migration, using transportable tablespaces (TTS), RMAN and Datapump.
• In depth knowledge of Oracle Grid
• In depth knowledge of Oracle Performance and Tuning
• Experience with Oracle 10G and 11G on Solaris and Linux

Desired Hard Skills:

• Knowledge of Oracle Golden Gate
• Knowledge of Oracle PeopleSoft Accounts
• Ability to administer another major database such as DB2 UDB, Sybase ASE, MS SQL Server, etc.
• Working knowledge of a column store database technology such as Sybase IQ, Vertica, etc.
• Working knowledge of a none structured database such as MongoDB, Hadoop, Spectral, etc

Additional Information

My Name is Shawn Spencer with Alpha Technologies USA.

 My contact info: 267-898-0572 Ext. 207

If you are available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please call us or send me updated resume.