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OVERVIEW:
Seeking a high-energy, clear-thinking and technically adept Oracle and MS SQL-Server DBA to administer and enhance existing enterprise database solutions while assisting in the deployment of next generation solutions. The successful candidate will assume a 24x7 technical / administrative role in the administration, performance tuning, and maintenance of the Oracle and SQL-Server environments, as well as assist with database administration support for all other production and development Oracle and SQL-Server databases.

The candidate will complement the existing DBA team providing independent, proactive management of the existing Oracle and SQL-Server databases (improvements, tuning, overall administration, etc). Will be expected to take the initiative and proactively identify and suggest/implement solutions to problems before they become systems performance impacting issues. Review user/systems support issues and perform or lead root cause analysis and provide working solutions. The position will require occasional non-standard/off hours maintenance to resolve issues and implement system changes in order to minimize downtime for end users.


JOB REQUIREMENTS:
-      The position requires a minimum of 5-7 years of experience as an Oracle/SQL-Server DBA
-      Effective communication skills are critical, both written and oral, and the capability to work effectively both independently and as a member of a team.
-      Must be clear thinking, fact-based and to the point.
-      Strong customer service skills are required.


SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
Skill requirements include solid knowledge and experience of core DBA duties and day-to-day Oracle and SQL-Server database administration, such as:
-      Responsible for database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, high-availability strategies in a 24x7 production environment.
-      Knowledge of Oracle and SQL-Server architecture, installation, configuration, maintenance, and patching procedures.
-      Strong experience writing T-SQL queries, stored procedures, and triggers
-      Experience with partitioning, replication, multi-level security, clustering, distributed transactions, OLTP, OLAP, and XML.
-      Experience with upgrade from previous versions of SQL-Server.
-      Develop and implement replication, archiving and backup and recovery strategies.
-      Anticipate hardware requirements and storage capacity planning for Development, Testing, QA, Staging, and Production for scalable database growth and performance
-      Proactively monitor production databases and optimize stored procedures for better performance
-      Resolve locking conflicts/blocking and resource utilization
-      Administer, maintain, develop and recommend policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the company's databases and systems
-      Identify and resolve database performance issues, database capacity issues and other distributed data issues
-      Experience with SQL-Server log shipping, replication and clustering
-      Proficient with recent Oracle database versions and features.
-      Experience with managing Oracle systems on UNIX platform a plus (Sun Solaris).
-      Experience with Enterprise Manager and other monitoring tools.
-      SQL & PL/SQL performance tuning
-      User / schema management
-      RMAN backup and recovery
-      Experience with Oracle Application Server, Weblogic a plus
-      Unix shell scripting (sh & ksh required, perl a plus)
-      Database systems documentation
-      Experience with E-Business a plus