Database Administrator to join our team.
The most competitive candidate is a hands-on Oracle Database Administrator with experience supporting both standalone Oracle environments and databases integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite.
Technical Scope:- Oracle EBS architecture and administration
- WebLogic administration
- Patching and upgrade strategies
- Performance tuning and optimization
- Backup and recovery planning
- High-availability and failover configurations
How This Role Operates:- Works independently in production environments with sound judgment
- Evaluates risk, impact, and rollback strategy before executing changes
- Leads root-cause analysis and drives issues to resolution
- Documents solutions and shares knowledge to strengthen team capability
What Success Looks Like:- Consistent, reliable support of critical systems
- Clear decision-making in complex or unfamiliar situations
- Ownership of outcomes, not just tasks
- Contribution to a stable, sustainable operating environment
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:- Assume responsibility for services and activities that directly relate to relational databases (RDBMS) and associated systems.
- Develop and implement technical plans for the construction and evolution of database systems.
- Assist in establishing data integrity and security policies and procedures for user accounts, data creation, data manipulation, and data storage.
- Perform a key role in the establishment of effective RDBMS and systems backup, recovery, and restart procedures.
- Mitigate cross-organizational issues associated with physical data storage, access, security, and database structure.
- Participate in the development of RDBMS standards and database connectivity strategies to support an open database architecture; participate in the development of operating systems and programming standards.
- Monitor and tune databases for optimal performance; recommend hardware and system configuration changes to optimize database and systems performance.
- Support application development by providing assistance in database architecture and design techniques; review proposed changes to RDBMS structures; review data security, data validation, and data integrity controls.
- Participate in the development and implementation of department goals, objectives, policies, and priorities for assigned programs.
- Provide leadership and oversight of assigned teams.
- Participate in the development and administration of annual budgets; forecast funds needed for equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Prepare and present staff reports and other necessary correspondence.
- Attend and participate in professional group meetings; stay abreast of new trends and innovations in information technology.
- Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.
Minimum Qualifications:- 3+ years of increasingly responsible relational database administration experience, including two years of direct administration of Oracle or MS SQL databases in a client-server environment.
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a closely related field. A combination of formal education and directly related work experience may substitute for the degree.
- Completion of specialized training in Oracle Database Management and Oracle financial application software is highly desirable.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Oracle database architecture and features.
- Microsoft SQL Server database architecture and features.
- Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Data Guard (DG), and Recovery Manager (RMAN).
- Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
- Relational database management systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.
- Database administration and management techniques in a client-server environment.
- Structured Query Language (SQL).
- Report writing, query tools, and data integration tools such as Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud (DIPC), SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, and Power BI.
- Principles of relational database design, development and administration, data integration, data security, data quality, data warehouse/ETL/ELT, and BI analytics reporting.
- Linux and Windows operating systems, networking concepts, and computer security.
- Physical database design, backup and recovery strategies, performance monitoring, and tuning.
- Principles of supervision, training, performance evaluation, and effective team building.
Must Be Able To:- Perform capacity planning of databases.
- Perform performance tuning and optimization activities of databases.
- Analyze programs, policies, and operational needs.
- Assess problems, identify alternative solutions, project consequences of proposed actions, and implement recommendations in support of goals.
- Research, analyze, and evaluate new administration methods and techniques.
- Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
