Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Job Description

Its fun to work at a company where people truly believe in what they are doing!Summary:The position of Senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) provides expert database knowledge and support in both development and operational phases of the software development life cycle. This includes but is not limited to providing outstanding customer service, senior-level technical knowledge, and accurate and timely deliverables. The Senior Oracle DBA tunes the RDBMS and PL-SQL, performs database backup and recovery, supports database installations, performs advanced troubleshooting, designs databases using advanced normalization techniques, defines and enforces best practices for RDBMS technologies, and supports all database related technologies like Oracle RAC and Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Text, OEM/Cloud Control, and LINUX operating systems with minimal needed supervision.Primary responsibility will be to support client facing production systems with aggressive uptime requirement of 99.925% while adhering to industry best practices and organization standards.Position requires self-motivated player who can manage projects independently in some cases and to work together as a team for some projects as directed by the Team Lead.Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of geographically distributed DBA team, supporting multiple data centers around the world.
• Assist the team lead with the design and implementation of new enterprise systems
• Provide expert knowledge and support for Oracle 11gR2, 12c, 19c Grid Infrastructure and RAC
• Maintain database backups using RMAN and support RMAN repository
• Review, evaluate, develop, document, implement, and maintain databases
• Administer and support Oracle Text constructs
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide weekend and off-hours support.
• Perform proactive database monitoring using OEM/Cloud Control
• Patch/upgrade Oracle environments as required
• Provide expert PL-SQL knowledge and support a team of developers in the development of stored procedures, triggers, functions, and other advanced constructs
• Monitor databases to ensure optimal performance, acting quickly to mitigate issues
• Perform schema and database level database recoveries of multiple terabyte databases
• Take complete ownership of the projects assigned, contribute to the overall success of the project and escalate to the team lead, if necessary.
• Adherence to industry best-practices, company standards, policies and procedures.
• Design and configure servers for Disaster Recovery (DR) and business continuity.
• Work effectively with end users to perform thorough analysis of business operations and procedures with an eye towards efficiency and productivity.
• Assist with fine tuning of large, multi-terabyte databases in a SAAS environment.
• Recommend, develop, document, and enforce Oracle best practices, including disaster recovery
• Provide detailed technical support for all databases; identify and analyze queries and stored procedures for optimization
• Perform shell scripting as needed
• Identify, review and optimize poorly written queries.
• Review, identify and automate repeatable processes.
• Follow ITIL best practices including change, incident and problem management.
• Assist with audits and certification and maintain compliance with requirements.

Qualifications:

• Degree in one of the following subject areas: Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Technology/
• 15 years IT operation with strong understanding of database structures, RDBMS concepts, theories, principles, and practices
• 10 years Oracle database administration experience, preferably in a hosting and/or corporate 24x7 highly available environment.
• Solid understanding of best practices for Oracle administration.
• Relevant knowledge of computer hardware including servers, networks, SANs and RAID configurations.

#LI-RE1If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, youll enjoy your career with us!It is Epiq s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.,

Keyskills :
operating systemsoracle databaseasmrmantechnical supportstored procedurescomputer hardwarecustomer servicecomputer sciencedisaster recoverydatabase administrationdatabasesshell scriptingleadership skillsrac