Job Title: Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)

Job Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Overview: Abacus Technology provides development, installation, deployment, operations, and maintenance of C4I systems and planned technological advancements to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF).  Currently, Abacus is in need of an Oracle DBA to lead and provide full life cycle database support for an enterprise level environment.  Special transportation, housing, travel, and education benefits and incentive awards are available.

Major Duties & Responsibilities: Install and upgrade the Oracle 9i/10g server and server application tools.  Plan, design, and maintain the logical and physical structure for database systems.  Create primary database physical and logical storage structure and primary objects.  Allocate system storage and plan future storage requirements for the database system.  Monitor, tune, and optimize database performance.  Load, migrate, and connect data from external source into the database.  Design and implement data security measures.  Design and maintain database backup and recovery strategies as well as database security solutions.  Support end users and application developers.  Manage and monitor Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC).  Write PL/SQL packages, procedures, and triggers to modify or implement new programs.  Provide regular status reports to the management team and generate incident reports as necessary.  Interact with management team, application developers, systems operations team, and end-users.

Qualifications: 8+ years experience in enterprise level database administration for Oracle systems.  Bachelor’s degree in a related field.  Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in 9i or 10g preferred.  Experience in system administration/engineering for both Windows and UNIX (HP-UX and Sun Solaris) systems preferred.  Extensive experience with Oracle databases.  Familiar with database design and structure, optimization and performance tuning, as well as security and troubleshooting.  Able to work effectively with all levels of an organization including the end users.

Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.