Oracle DBA

Minnesota  ‐ Onsite
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Oracle DBA

Minnetonka, MN

6 Plus Month (potential contract to hire!)

Company and Project Information:

This position is for a Production and Non-Production Database Administrator (DBA) within IT within the DBA teams for global database operations support.

Position Mandates:

This is an industry standard Production DBA role within a group of larger DBA teams.

Preference would be given to those who also can immerse in database data to establish essential business knowledge for SQL reporting beyond the typical Oracle DBA role.

Minimum of 40 hours per week plus On-Call responsibilities involving after-hours nights, weekends, holidays, vacations and sick coverage for other DBAs.

The Production Oracle DBA.must* live and.work* in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area during and after the interview process. This is not a telecommuting position and relocation is not available.

Prior working knowledge of the travel business is a plus.

This is intended as a 6-month contract with possible renewal. Hiring options or extension options may be considered anywhere from 3 to 6 months or beyond.

Key Responsibilities

The Oracle DBA will provide substantial Oracle 12c, Oracle 11g and Oracle 10g support skills toward overall Oracle production and non-production database support activities including installations, configurations, upgrades, performance, tuning, backups and DR, regular maintenance jobs, encryption and troubleshooting.

This Production Oracle DBA position will also encompass some degree of testing in pre-production environments. This DBA position will require participation in a Production DBA after-hours on-call rotation schedule. This job will require the ability to upgrade from several levels of back versions of Oracle. Linux/Solaris Admin knowledge is an additional preferred asset.

The successful Production Oracle DBA candidate should also be able to strategize, collaborate, and participate in various monitoring, performance, and analysis tasks with the goal of performance optimizations and retention of the corresponding historical monitoring metrics and statistics.

As part of performance improvements, the Oracle DBA will also review SQL queries written by software developers for performance enhancements.

Required Qualifications

Requirements Summary:
This is dominantly an Oracle Production DBA position and requires a minimum of 4 years Production Oracle database administration experience. Although not a Development DBA position, the successful candidate must have an extensive working knowledge of UNIX and Oracle Jobs, along with automation. SQL programming background is very valuable. Due to acquisitions and consolidations, Data Management practices will be part of the Production DBA role. The ideal candidate would also have travel business knowledge. SQL Query background is an additional asset. In addition to all of the above expertise, preference may be given to those DBA candidates who also possess proven PL/SQL and Reporting skills.

Experience:
The Oracle DBA must have had direct previous hands-on production DBA role for Oracle within the last four years on UNIX/Linux/Solaris (not Windows and no Mainframe)

The top three skills are

1) Oracle skills

2) Linux/Solaris skills

3) Technical and Interpersonal skills

Start date
n.a
From
Azule Staffing
Published at
10.12.2014
Project ID:
821157
Contract type
Freelance
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