Senior Cip Applications Engineer

Job Title: Senior CIP Applications Engineer
Rate: $52.41 per hour. The conversion salary would be 107,000 with benefits - 401k, vacation, sick leave, medial, etc.
Employment Type: Temp to Hire Resource, W2.
Duration: 11/1/23 – 10/1/24
Location: Hybrid position with 2 days on site (Tuesday and Wednesday) in Hammond, IN

Scope of Services:

As a Senior CIP Applications Engineer, your role revolves around database management, optimization, and security, including capacity planning, installation, evaluation of releases, backup, and recovery. You'll provide technical support, troubleshoot issues, and evaluate vendors. Your qualifications include OSI system experience, Oracle expertise, strategic planning, project management, and strong relationship-building skills. You'll actively contribute to a safe work environment, participate in an on-call rotation, and be available for occasional travel and emergencies.

Roles, Responsibilities and Deliverables:

• Creates, maintains, and tunes all databases (including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures) required for development, testing, education and production usage
• Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the databases.
• Install new and maintain existing versions of the DBMS engines on distributed servers.
• Evaluates releases of the database and its tools, and third party products to ensure that the site is running the products that are most appropriate. Planning is also performed by the DBA, along with the application developers and Systems engineers to ensure that any new product usage or release upgrade takes place with minimal impact
• Plans and implements backup and recovery of the database
• Implements and enforces security for all of the databases
• Monitors databases for problems and performs preventative maintenance
• Performs tuning of application code as it relates to database performance
• Provides technical support and consulting to the application development teams
• Troubleshoots problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools
• Participates in disaster recovery events
• Evaluate vendor responses to RFP, RFQ, RFI and support vendor selection process.

Qualifications:

• Candidate must have OSI system experience.
• Prefer Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent and two or more years of experience with Oracle.
• Demonstrates most characteristics of L1, L2 and L3.
• Requires minimum direction.
• Has mastered skills related to specific job responsibilities.
• Demonstrates ability to perform some strategic planning.
• Demonstrated ability to manage medium sized projects.
• Consistently prioritizes workload without management intervention.
• Demonstrated ability to review and contribute to functional and/or technical specifications regarding business requirements.
• Considered by peers and leadership to be SME in the working group.
• Proactive in identifying business/enterprise technical needs.
• Contributes to a safe work environment.
• History of developing strong working relationships with peers, leadership and customers.
• Consistently demonstrates high ethical standards and serves as a role model for peers.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to train/coach others.
• Demonstrates ownership of systems and processes.
• Participates in business and technical direction setting.
• Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively.
• Ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
• Ability to positively represent company in industry events.
• Able to interpret compliance standards as applicable to job role.
• Occasional travel, including air travel.
• The ability to perform duties effectively under emergency situations.
• Must be available to participate in weekly 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Ability to work overtime and weekends, when needed.
• Advanced degree

To apply, please submit a resume outlining your relevant experience and approach to being a Senior CIP Applications Engineer. Short-listed candidates will be expected to complete a Blue Star Partners Bio.