Description
One of my clients, a top financial firm in Chicago, is looking to bring on an Oracle DBA to their technical team in Chicago. This person should have a mixture between Oracle and SQL background to be successful. Here is a brief overview of the role.Responsibilities:
* Good scripting ability and good working knowledge of Shell Scripts etc.
* Managing large scale Oracle deployments in term of DB size and number of servers
* Solid understanding of Oracle internal architecture
* Performance tuning of Oracle database and SQL is required
* Experience in database software management (installation, patching and version management)
* Experience with database utilities: backup, restore, export and import.
* Enable health performance and configuration monitoring
* Enable event monitoring
* Knowledge of recovery, logging, authentication, and authorizations
* Familiar with a broad range of performance and support tools
* Familiar with Oracle Enterprise Manager and other support tools to manage a database environment
* Understanding Oracle storage options for data (ASM)
* Knowledge of table spaces, indexes, and partitioning capabilities
* Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
* 8 or more years' experience in the database development life cycle
* 6 or more years' experience with Oracle running on a distributed platform
* Limited SQL Server experience preferred
* Experience with Oracle 10g and 11g is required
* Performance tuning experience including extensive experience with explains and system snapshots
* Strong SQL skills including the ability to rewrite complex queries for performance improvements
* Must possess good written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to prioritize, multitask and work with remote teams
If you feel that you are a good fit for this position, please submit your resume highlighting your technical experience as it relates to this description. Please contact Lindsay Haddock at Huxley Associates at with questions
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