Oracle DBA

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Join a team of Savvy technical professionals. Our client is a internationally respected financial institution seeking a Oracle DBA for a six month contract at $59 per hour and then convert to full time in the $95K range. Excellent full time benefit package when full time including health, dental,matching 401K, stock option plan, and even paid holiday time off as a consultant. This position can be or located in Dallas, TX, Herndon, Virginia, Richmond Virginia or East Rutherford NJ.
This position is 70% database administration and 30% application database support.
? Must have 7-10 years experience supporting Oracle databases preferably 11g
? Must be strong in day to day database administration support
? Highly knowledgeable at performance tuning databases
? Able to diagnose from C
? Must have strong verbal and written communication skills
? DB security and audit experience.
? Experience with Siebel.
General Description:
This is an E-Commerce operations support position located in a Web hosting co-location production operations environment. This position is 70% database administration and 30% application database support. The database administrator will provide technical support in a production operations environment, and have thorough knowledge of Oracle database application development and operation suppor. This person will perform complex operational tasks that include support of various types of applications used in a web infrastructure, analysis of the root cause of any problem issues, resolution of any application problems, and escalation of any irresolvable issues to the vendor as necessary. This work is in a 7X24X365 data center. On-call and weekend work is expected.
Typical Duties:
Provide database administration support
Comfortable communicating with customer facing activities
Responsible for database backups, recoveries, patches, upgrades, design, development, testing, and performance tuning
Participation in client meetings will be required
Contractor must be willing to work flexible hours including weekends and nights
Responsible for sharing 24 x 7 on call rotation duties with other team members
Required Skills and/or Product Knowledge:
Minimum of 7-10 years of experience working with ORACLE database systems on UNIX
Oracle 10g/11g DBA experience in application development and operational support
Candidate must have experience in Oracle 10g/11g database architecture, automation, installs, , backup & recovery, monitoring, and database and query tuning
RMAN experience in Oracle 10g or higher
Strong performance and tuning skill set
Shell scripting skill is required.
Database partitioning, patching, and cloning experience
Oracle support in Java environment
Experience with PostgreSQL and Seibel
Proficiency in PL/SQL
Strong verbal and written communication skills Ability to work effectively in a team, and with clients
The following skills and experience are preferred:
Oracle High Availability using Veritas preferred
Experience with Sun Solaris is strongly preferred
Experience in highly available web based OLTP systems strongly preferred
Oracle certified professional ( OCP ) is plus Prefer experience in an ITIL environment
Travel requirements:
Travel requirements to client locations are estimated at 5%.
General requirements include extensive use of Microsoft Word; along with potential use of Excel, Access, and/or PowerPoint if applicable. Superior verbal and written communication; attention to detail; and strong organizational skills.
Experience in an ITIL environment is preferred.
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