As the world's largest healthcare services company with more than $80 billion in annual sales, McKesson Corporation (McKesson) is a Fortune 16 Corporation that provides pharmaceutical supply management and information technologies across the entire continuum of healthcare.

This opportunity is within the McKesson Health Solutions, Medical Management Group (MMG). The MMG offers a comprehensive suite of medical management products and services to help providers and payers better manage the cost and quality of care. Its CareEnhanceSM and InterQual solutions include: disease management, nurse triage, care management, utilization management, decision support criteria, and software that helps manage workflow, resources, and regulatory reporting processes.

Current Need

The Senior DBA will perform the duties for daily maintenance, monitoring, performance analysis, trouble shooting, problem resolution, and user assistance required of Oracle database environments.

In this position the candidate will be responsible for various database administration tasks in the development, QA, and production environments. Candidates for this position should have an understanding of database concepts and technologies and experience in UNIX/Linux, administering Oracle 9i/10G database instances, Oracle 10G RAC and DataGuard.

This person will work with a cross-section of internal IT organizations, including other DBA's, systems analysts, developers and the management team. Must be available for rotating on-call pager.

- Install, configure and upgrade Oracle server software and related products in a UNIX environment.

- Create and implement Oracle backup and recovery methods and disaster recovery methods using RMAN.

- Database tuning for optimal performance to meet Business SLA*s.

- Design, test and implement Oracle high availability solutions.

- Establish effective database performance monitoring procedures.

- Control and monitor user access to databases and maintain database security.

- Allocate systems storage and develop plans for future storage requirements.(Capacity planning)

- Set up and maintain documentation and standards.

- Resolving development and QA database requests, and troubleshooting various database issues.

- Provides technical assistance and mentoring to staff.

- Rotational On-call Pager

- Must have the ability and willingness to be on-call for live coverage and to cover live weekend events. The positions requires about 10% travel.

Additional Knowledge & Skills

- Strong experience in Oracle 9i and 10g installations, administration, design and development.

- Strong experience with Linux/UNIX

- Minimum of a year working experience with Oracle 10g.

- Strong knowledge of Oracle High Availability solutions: Oracle 10G DataGuard and RAC.

- Strong knowledge of Oracle RMAN.

- Strong UNIX shell scripting experience.

- Extensive experience in SQL tuning and Oracle database performance tuning.

- Proven diagnostic problem solving and solution development capabilities required

Minimum Requirements

6+ years experience in database administration

Education

4-year degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience

Physical Requirements

General Office Demands

Company Statement

McKesson offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.



McKesson is everywhere in healthcare. We offer a wealth of opportunity for individuals with a desire to make a difference in providing industry-leading, integrated healthcare services and solutions. Individuals with the passion to be a part of our entire continuum of patient-focused care. It's you and McKesson - empowering healthcare. Visit www.mckesson.com/careers for more information.



As an equal opportunity employer, McKesson Corporation unites the talents and contributions of all to advance the power of healthcare.

Agency Statement

No agencies please.