ORACLE DBA

Texas  ‐ Onsite
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10 month contract

Houston, TX

50-55/hr

Must be authorized to work in the US for any employer without sponsorship

NO THIRD PARTY RESUMES

local to the Houston area

Major fortune 500 company is seeking an Oracle DBA with systems and applications design, implementation and support experience. Must have experience with VLDB, RAC, Partitioning, Clustering, Data Guard and Golden Gate. Must have extensive experience with RAC and Performance tuning.

  • Designs complex logical and physical databases requiring additional specialized technical knowledge, and coordinates database development. Resolves complex or ambiguous database issues.
  • Analyzes designs, creates and implements multi-faceted and complex database applications in all environments.
  • Administers supports, maintains, optimizes, and monitors complicated database applications in all environments.
  • Plans, installs, and maintains complex DBMS binaries, patches and bug fixes. Designs, tests, and implements specific database structural changes.
  • Implements standard configurations and tools to enable back up operations, analysing of objects, and cleaning of file systems and logs Supports high availability database infrastructure including Oracle RAC and Data Guard technology.
  • Performs database Backup and Recovery in support of business continuity Manages database performance and capacity, provides plans for increases and/or decreases, ensures improvements are successfully implemented and makes tuning adjustments as necessary. Coordinates with users to determine requirements.
  • Assists with the design and enforcement of Best Practices and DB Standards as per industry standards. Investigates and resolves difficult database application problems.
  • Contributes to specification meeting with project team to determine scope and limitations of projects.
  • Maintains database schemas and data documentation.
  • Participates in on-call rotation and provide first line after hours support as needed.

Qualifications

  • Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or similar area of study. Five years of previous experience required.
  • Five years experience in database analysis, design, and maintenance or working with an Oracle server. Knowledge of database analysis, design, and maintenance. UNIX and Linux Operating Systems. Supporting (VLB) Very large database leveraging (Oracle partitioning for data management is a plus).
  • Understands infrastructure elements including performance and tuning considerations. Working knowledge of Shell Scripting for various operating systems.
  • Backup and recovery experience. Knowledge of disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
  • Understanding of TCP/IP Networking environments Oracle 10g or higher.
  • Experience with building and support Real Application Clustering on Linux platform. Configuring and supporting Standby and Data Guard technology.
  • Experience in negotiating issues to resolution. Oracle Data Replication, PL/SQL programming, Korn Shell programming, Oracle RAC, Data Guard.
  • Strong problem solving and communication skills. SQL knowledge a plus.
Start date
n.a
From
Request Technology-Nancy Hammond
Published at
26.12.2013
Project ID:
645023
Contract type
Freelance
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