Oracle Exadata DBA

The Senior DBA will perform administration and engineering for multiple production databases supporting the mission-critical activities. The Sr. DBA will be responsible for fast-paced, complex distributed database environments supporting both OLTP and OLAP systems across multiple platforms in a shared, SAN-based environment. The Sr. DBA will be leading the migration of the architecture to Exadata.
A strong candidate will be able to rapidly troubleshoot complex technical problems under pressure, implement scalable solutions, all while managing multiple requirements. Deep knowledge of Oracle Database concepts and strong performance tuning skills is a must. Experience and knowledge of Exadata platform is highly desired.
Basic Qualifications
Minimum of 10 years Database Administration experience with administering and supporting multiple Oracle databases for performance critical, highly available systems on UNIX/Linux platform
Experience administering and working on Exadata platform.
Experience in Oracle 11g/12c Architecture, Configuration, and Administration
Experience with backup/restore functionality
Experience managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments
Excellent SQL and DB performance tuning skills
Strong experience using OEM
Experience installing and managing RAC clusters with ASM
Experience supporting applications such as PeopleSoft and other large COTS.
Oracle Certified Professional certification is desired
Experience with Exadata is desired but not required.
Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience as a database machine administrator on Exadata platform.
Experience in planning, building, implementing, administering, and maintaining ORACLE databases to support mission-critical Financial Systems. Build and successfully integrates complex, OLTP and Data Warehousing ORACLE databases with minimal or no supervision. Demonstrated ability to ensure optimal database performance through exhaustive pre-service testing and ongoing real-time monitoring. Troubleshoot issues to resolution.
Experience in creating automation tools for managing relational databases (backup/restore, discovery, schema deployment). Strong experience with OEM 12c Grid control.
Ability to maintain database security and enterprise policy guidelines according to best practices. Ability to recommend new and improved guidelines to ensure high availability and stability
Strong experience in Performance Tuning, and OEM 12c. Strong experience in Backup and Recovery,
Strong knowledge of Oracle RMAN, Oracle Data Guard (physical/logical is a plus) and Grid Control. At least 3 years of Oracle DBA experience in an enterprise environment supporting all aspects of an Oracle Database Server with emphasis on 2-tiered and 3-tiered, redundant and highly available architectures
A minimum of 1 year of ORACLE 10g/11g/12c SQL development including package/ procedure/ trigger/ XML development in a multi-user production environment
Strong experience with RAC and ASM, building and supporting RAC clusters using ASM storage.
Strong experience in monitoring and tuning Oracle databases for optimum performance; assist in capacity planning of Oracle database servers
Experience supporting databases used by large COTS. PeopleSoft is preferred, large ERPs and other COTS is a must.
Experience in maintaining databases residing on SANs. Experience with replication technologies, either SAN-based or Oracle-based (Streams, Golden Gate)
Experience working on clustered solutions, including RAC/ASM or other similar tools.
Excellent UNIX skills and a grasp of fundamental computing concepts such as system calls, memory management and program debugging. Working knowledge of Linux system administration, configuration of storage arrays networks, disk configuration including multipath. A minimum of 3 years experience with the UNIX shell scripting techniques Korn Shell, AWK, SED, and Perl scripting preferably
Ability to function independently and plan, evaluate and design solutions to problems as they occur. Ability to work well in a group environment. Ability to mentor other DBAs in the group.
Experience implementing and supporting security and audit, including demonstrated experience with Oracle Advanced Security.
Provide tasks and timelines to support the creation of project plans with appropriate updates for those tasks throughout the project lifecycle.
Perform On-Call duties as assigned
Environment
Must have the ability to function in a tight knit team environment
Must be willing to challenge yourself with regard to learning new applications as well as new Oracle components that support new platforms on fairly short timelines
Must have strong verbal and written communication skills
Must be able to work independently with accuracy and attention to detail