US-MN- Santa Fe: Oracle DBA

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Date: 12-Mar-2008

Oracle DBA

Responsibilities:

*Perform day to day Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server and/or UNIX database administration in large, complex environment. *Responsible for participating in the design and modeling of the database architecture (s) in use within the environment. *Expected to assist in the development and coding of SQL (both P/L and T) for stored procedures, triggers and other database artifacts in support of application development, application integration and systems integration. *Responsible for the assisting with the overall performance, tuning, and backup/recovery of databases and optimization of underlying operating systems and hardware architectures for managed database service clients. *Maintain database in high availability (HA) solutions to meet reliability and high client service level standards. *Support mission critical systems in 24X7 environments. *Plan and implement database upgrades as needed. *Install, configure and upgrade SQL Server and/or Oracle software and related products as needed. *Work with IT clients, external consultants and multiple vendors to design and implement scalable architectures. Display ability to support Oracle technologies supporting replication to include but not limited to Streams. *Develop and maintain best practice services in support of databases. *Write custom scripts to automate various daily DBA operations. *Document and improve existing processes and operations.

Candidate Requirements:

*Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four year college or university in computer science, IT, engineering or equivalent experience. *Five or more years of experience as both a database administrator AND either a Linux administrator OR a Windows 2003 server administrator. *Must possess strong knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP), applications and systems. *Requires a high degree of self-management in area of tracking, documentation and vendor / service management. *Experience working with fast paced environment and engineer teams. *Motivated self-starter personality; must be able to work independently of supervision but be a willing and contributing participant on cross-functional team. *Three or more years of experience in data architecture, requirements analysis, and data modeling. *Must have strong written and verbal skills communication skills, and strong problem solving abilities. *Must be able to perform effectively in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment while maintaining a high level of service. *Experience in designing, implementing, testing and maintaining data replication services, as well as database backup, security and recovery strategies. *Strong familiarity with database clustering & log shipping. *Experience in installing and administering database instances in design, development, test and production environment. *Experience with Shell scripting. *Experience in SQL software and client / server configuration in a Windows and/or Linux environment; in at least two of Oracle 10g, MSSQL with additional requirements as below for each.

*Experience supporting Oracle 10g Production Databases. *Experience with MS SQL Server 2005 / 2000. *Strong proficiency with Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Microsoft IIS, SQL Server, Microsoft Enterprise Windows Clustering. *Experience writing T-SQL stored procedures. *Experience with supporting databases in environments using the following technologies: Microsoft IIS, ASP, ASP.Net, ODBC. *Experience supporting 100+ GB databases at 10,000 * 50,000 SQL transactions/sec. *Experience with DBCC trace flags to trouble-shoot performance and resolve deadlock issues. *Proficient in SQL Server Replication technologies with experience in DTS, log shipping, database mirroring, and other high level data management techniques in a 24x7.

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