Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Job Title: Lead Oracle Database Administrator

Location: Melbourne Florida

Duration: 12 months contract to hire

Description:

Job Title: Lead, Data Management

Job Location: Melbourne, FL (100% onsite)

Job Description:

client is searching for a senior technical professional to join the Data Center Operational Support Services (OSS) team as a Lead Oracle Database Administrator. This position requires solid experience in Red Hat Linux, Solaris, and Windows OS. The candidate will support multiple database tasks in a dynamic environment, maintaining and managing databases. The candidate will be the team lead and will have management responsibilities in addition to technical.

• This position is ONSITE and located at Client offices located in Melbourne, Florida. Remote work is not possible.

• This position requires the ability to support On call schedule rotations.

• This position requires the ability to support weekend, evening, and/or overnight maintenance request as needed.

• This position requires travel to disaster recovery site and support as needed.

• This position requires the ABILITY to obtain FAA Public Trust Suitability.

Essential Functions:

• Database management with Oracle RAC, Grid infrastructure (ASM & Clusterware), Data Guard (logical and physical standby), Oracle Enterprise Manager.

• Oracle database backup/recovery, high availability, data replication solutions, and applying quarterly security patches.

• Tuning databases to improve response times of queries.

• Creation of jobs, stored procedures, and other database activities as needed.

• Control of database security systems and how users interact with the data.

• Documentation of database processes.

• Plan and execute implementations of new data related applications and systems.

• Review and implement new database designs based on developer requirements.

• Complete system performance tuning and diagnostic related tasks.

• System health monitoring and proactive correction of issues.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related field, and minimum 8 years related experience; or a Masters’ degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related field, and minimum 6 years related experience.

• Minimum of 6 years of DBA experience.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with Oracle DB technologies, Oracle Enterprise Manager, upgrade/patching including quarterly security patches for RAC, Data Guard Standby, standalone environments.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with Linux Red Hat.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience writing and debugging stored procedures.

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience leading and managing a team.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Proven troubleshooting and problem solving skills.

• Excellent core database administration life cycle skillset from installation to disaster recovery.

• Knowledge and experience with standard SQL Server (version 2012 and later) administration, backup, recovery, refresh databases, performance tuning, HA/DR solutions, upgrade and patching in a virtual environment is an added plus.

• Oracle Multitenant CDB/PDB administration along with migration from non-CDB to PDB is a plus.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $70.00 - $76.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Application Question(s):

• ABILITY to obtain FAA Public Trust Suitability

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• DBA: 6 years (Required)
• Oracle Enterprise Manager: 6 years (Required)
• RAC: 5 years (Required)
• Linux Red Hat: 5 years (Required)
• debugging stored procedures: 5 years (Required)
• Data Guard: 5 years (Required)
• VMWare: 4 years (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Melbourne, FL 32919: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person