Description
Job Title: Oracle Database Engineer
Location: Berkeley Heights NJ 07922
Schedule: On-site (5 days)
Position: Contract to Hire
Duration: 9 month
Employment Type: W2Job Responsibilities
The Senior Database Administrator designs, installs, maintains and upgrades the enterprises production databases. Provides technical expertise in the use of database technology. Accountable for the overall performance of the enterprises database environment. Works closely with clients, business analysts, systems programmers, and application developers to define and resolve information flow and content issues---helping to transform business requirements into environment specific databases. Monitors and analyzes performance metrics and allocates database resources to achieve optimum database performance. Performs additional job duties as required.
Job Functions
• Analyze business requirements and provide server and database sizing
• Identify database bottlenecks and provide remediation steps
• Implement database backup solutions
• Perform database restore actions
• Design, implement, and test enterprise level disaster recovery solutions
• Design, implement, and test high availability database solutions including clustering
• Perform user provisioning
• Design and implement security configuration including grants, roles, and profiles
• Perform database security monitoring
• Perform database auditing and implementing security standards
• Perform database tuning related tasks
• Design, size, and implement enterprise level database systems
• Install and configure database software
• Perform database upgrade and patching
• Complete database migrations from legacy to new hardware
• UNIX shell scripting
• Perform OS troubleshooting
• Server capacity planning and resource analysis
• Design and implement logical database schemas including ERD diagraming
• Perform database schema change management
• Control and execute code deployments to upper database environments
• Execute database data movement to satisfy ETL, backup/recover, and other business needs
• Administer and maintain ETL tools including Informatica
• Implement and support enterprise level database backup solutions
• Configure monitoring across all enterprise databases
Experience Requirements
• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Deep understanding or experience supporting databases on Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) or ExaData/ExaCC/ExaCS
• Hands-on experience working with Oracle 12.1 through 19c.
• Database installation, upgrading, migrating, patching, disaster recovery, high availability, monitoring, assessing, and providing resolution.
• Experience with Oracle OEM for database monitoring, and problem diagnosis
• Experience with backup and restore using RMAN
• Knowledge and experience with database capacity planning
• Experience monitoring and analysis of performance metrics and allocation of database resources to achieve optimum database performance
• Familiarity with fail-over testing and participation in DR exercises
• In-depth knowledge of Goldengate or Data Guard replication
• Knowledge of other open source database platforms
• Working with Python, Shell, and PowerShell scripting.
• Designing automated deployments.
• Experience with Unix (AIX), and Linux operating system.
• Experience with Informatica.
• Experience with change management tools including Service Now.