Oracle Database Administrator - Allied Consultants, Inc.

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 32 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Oracle Dtabase Administrator to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law.  Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background checkAllied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.

Responsibilities

Enters codes to create production data base. Selects and enters codes of utility program to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory. Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system. Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions. Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base. Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning. Workers typically specialize in one or more types of data base management systems. Providing assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems, and ensuring that the conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with the structural parameters within the database environment. Evaluates users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance. Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganizes as needed. Performs data modeling and prototyping. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models. Performs security recovery procedures. Determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements. Maintains data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary. Monitors database performance and recommends efficiency improvements. Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures. Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures. Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems. Assists with the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and implementing databases. Assists in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security. Assists in the selection of database management software. Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming work. Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures; of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques; of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies. Has working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies. Ensures that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data(via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards. Provides support to users in obtaining data / information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.

TIERS project has increased demand due to Cloud Migration efforts. The increase in demand requires additional support with code releases in all environments, development, test, production, training and disaster recovery. Support is also required for improving the disaster recovery process to reduce the workload required to support Disaster Recovery. Duties include maintain grid and database software, performance tuning, ASM/storage management, and administrating user/db security. This position will support Oracle database on Oracle Exadata systems. This position will also provide additional support for MSSQL Server Enterprise for a critical application in TIERS and this expertise does not exist on the team. The position is required to provide on weekends during a release and/or maintenance. The position is required to be Oncall. This position will also support for PSR Team including analyzing, troubleshooting, and executing data corrections production databases.  

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

8

Required

In-depth knowledge of Oracle internal views, shell & SQL and PL/SQL scripting.

8

Required

Experience managing Oracle databases versions on Linux systems including shell scripting and tuning.

8

Required

Solid experience in managing Oracle version 19 databases, Real Application Clusters (RAC), and Active Data Guard.

8

Required

Experience developing tools to administer large numbers of test & development database environments.

8

Required

Experience with on-call and providing 24x7 coverage for supporting Production & Development database systems.

8

Required

Experience designing, installing & maintaining large size databases.

8

Required

Thorough knowledge and working experience in setting up infrastructure for databases in datacenters at multiple sites including cloud infrastructure.

8

Required

Working experience in moving live production, development and testing database and applications hosted in different physical sites.

8

Required

Experience with administration of Oracle database on Oracle Exadata database machine including configuration and patching.

8

Required

Experience with administration of MSSQL Server, EDB PostgreSQL Enterprise databases.

8

Required

Experience with migration, configuration and support of Oracle databases on AWS cloud infrastructure (others considered).

8

Required

Experience perform Database refreshes/clones and provide support for building development and testing databases.

8

Required

Experience troubleshooting the database software and its infrastructure and where necessary engage and support the software vendor with problem analysis and resolution.

8

Preferred

Experience using Remedy, ITSM, PPM and ServiceNow.