Role: Oracle DBA
Location - Chicago, IL
Duration - 6+ Months
Top Three Skills
1. Oracle 11g / 12c
2. RAC/ASM
3. Oracle DataGuard
Duties and Key Responsibilities:
• Manage individual workload and deliver to agreed-upon milestones, require minimal supervision to perform job duties.
• Plan, design, and build high performance database systems.
• Work with architect, application and infrastructure teams on implementing customer-servicing application releases and infrastructure projects.
• Analyze database & system response time and determine tuning recommendations to improve performance.
• Effectively manage issue identification and resolution process.
• Participate in, and encourage a knowledge-sharing environment both within, and outside the department.
• Participate in on-call duties.
Experience and Educational Requirements:
• Bachelors degree in related technical / business area is required. Computer Science, Information Services, mathematics, engineering or related field.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to quickly and efficiently pinpoint and resolve problematic system issues.
• 5-10 years experience of UNIX (IBM AIX or Linux) platform, Oracle RAC/ASM, RMAN, OEM, Oracle Partitioning, Shell scripting and/or PL/SQL scripting, Oracle Dataguard and Oracle Net are required
• Must have strong GoldenGate skills
• 3-5 years experience of Exadata, Oracle OVD, Oracle GoldenGate, Microsoft SQL Server and/or Hadoop is highly desirable.
• Strong change management skills; change agent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience supporting mission critical infrastructure in a fast paced environment.