Sr. Production Database Administrator

Business Intelligence Solutions

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The senior production database administrator will be a critical member of the Advisory Board's Business Intelligence operations team, serving as the "go to" person for all Oracle databases. He or she will be responsible for providing insight into all database environments and advising on Oracle best practices. The Sr. DBA will need to effectively communicate with application teams and management teams, as well as the other DBA team members.

Specific Responsibilites Include:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle administration.
• Exceptional verbal and written English communication skills.
• Proven experience with Oracle Database management, configuration and tuning.
• Serve as primary DBA support for mission-critical databases and own problem resolution from end-to-end.
• Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.
• Responsible for supporting the Oracle databases and ensuring their performance, availability and security.
• Provide 24 x7 on call support, participate in off hours troubleshooting and perform scheduled maintenance activities.
• Responsible for capacity planning and trend analysis.
• Responsible for problem escalation to internal support teams and outside vendors as appropriate.
• Responsible for maintenance of the databases to include patch apply and upgrades.
• Responsible for implementation of database changes related to application release processes.
• Ability to work under pressure and able to work flexible hours as required by business priorities.
• Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service.

Required Skills and Experience:

• A leader that is self-motivated and can motivate others.
• Leadership skills to guide and mentor the work of less experienced personnel.
• Strong decision-making skills, take charge personality, and the ability to drive a plan to completion.
• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical teams and business community.
• Minimum of 3 years experience with Oracle RAC environment including ASM and CRS software.
• Experience building a 2 to 4 node Oracle RAC.
• Solid knowledge of operating system internals such as UNIX, Linux.
• Professional Shell programming experience preferred.
• Familiar with SAN/NETAPP or other storage management software.
• Must be able to create necessary documentation (for example: MS Project, Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Extensive knowledge of RMAN database backup & recovery procedures and options.
• In-depth knowledge with Oracle tools such as Import/Export, Data pump, AWR, ADDM, ASH.
• Knowledge of areas such as indexing, buffer cache, disk I/O optimization, ASM, locking, parallelization, query optimization, materialized views, cubes.
• Ability to proactively look at new and innovative solutions that may improve user experience while increasing performance and scalability.

 Preferred Background:

• Experience in an ASP (Application Service Provider) environment
• Working knowledge of service oriented architectures, data-warehousing architectures and exposure to ETL environments and/or server side development.
• Experience with MicroStrategy and Informatica
• Experience working with industry standards, regulations and guidelines in database warehousing systems
• Oracle Certification
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

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