US Citizenship is Required - Ability to pass enhanced background screen (criminal, financial, drug) for Public Trust clearance.
Description:
This position requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience. Must have strong Oracle Database administration support skills in UNIX (AIX / Solaris), Linux (Red Hat), strong communication, and documentation skills. Be able to implement and support specialized business and technical information technology solutions. On-Call and weekend support expected.
Technical Skills and product knowledge requirements:
Actual development skills are needed. Candidates must be able to articulate examples of code/scripts they developed. It is not sufficient to describe modifying code/scripts developed by others. Experience creating scripts/API with XML, Java, Python or YAML is a plus.
Strong Oracle Database administration experience, preferably with 19c and above.
Data Warehouse, OLAP, DSS, and OLTP experience.
Strong performance and tuning skill set.
Experience with Oracle installation, backup & recovery, monitoring, patching, and upgrades.
Experience with RMAN, Data Pump, and other forms of backups and recovery.
Strong multi-tenant and multi-node Real Application Cluster database experience.
Strong in-place and fleet maintenance patching experience.
Strong Cloud Control / Oracle Enterprise Manager experience.
Experience with Data Guard configuration and failover/switchover and recovery scenarios.
Experience with implementation of Data At Rest (DAR) encryption, including creating/configuring wallets.
Experience with implementation of Data In Transit (DIT) encryption.
Experience with Linux/UNIX shell scripting.
Basic understanding of networking.
Strong Proficiency in PL/SQL.
Quals/Responsibilities:
Qualified applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related area or a minimum of 10 - 15 years’ experience working with Oracle database systems on UNIX (AIX/Solaris) and Linux (Red Hat).
Perform change management (CM) role on the components and implement change requests based on CM processes.
Perform break/fix activities following incident management process.
Maintain, Install, Upgrade Oracle Database throughout the lifecycle of the product.
Ability to manage own projects including communications to customers as well as work as part of a larger operational team.
Strong diplomacy, assertiveness, influencing skills with commitment and ability to work in a dynamic cross-organizational team environment.
Good interpersonal, communication, organizational, and customer service skills.
Must be willing to work off hours, weekends, and on-call support.
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is a plus.
ITIL / Agile awareness is a plus.
Provide database application performance tuning and operational database support.
Well-spoken and comfortable communicating with customer facing activities.
Responsible for database backups, recoveries, patches, upgrades, design, development, testing, and performance tuning.
Participation in client meetings will be required.
Contractor must be willing to work flexible hours including weekends and nights.
Strong verbal and written communication skill.
Ability to work effectively in a team, with other internal teams, and directly with the clients.
Responsible for sharing 24 x 7 on call rotation duties with other team members.