Oracle Database Admin

3 days ago

Littleton, CO, United States Saxon Global Full-time
Oracle Database Administrator

Location: Littleton, CO (Onsite)

Contract Length: 6-12 months with option to extend

Responsibilities:

  • Lead all efforts related to the design, maintenance, and administration of multiple classified database technologies
  • Recommend then implement new database solutions, products, and/or standards in support of program goals & operations
  • Evaluate, install and test database management systems (DBMS) upgrades and patches for DBMS software, application software, and other software related to DBMS administration
  • Work with the system administrators for hardware and software installations and configurations, participate in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate hardware and software resources for databases
  • Support program requests - data copies across environments, data cleanup, query tuning, etc.
  • Support projects/initiatives related to data acquisition, processing, and utilization through Big Data Platform
  • Work with end users to identify and resolve issues
  • Analyze current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities
  • Participate in 24/7 on-call support, as needed

Basic Skills:

  • Strong experience administering Oracle database technologies
  • Strong experience with Oracle products
  • Experience applying security patches and upgrades
  • Experience addressing database outages
  • Experience maintaining SQL databases

Desired Skills:

  • Oracle DB Certification
  • Oracle RAC experience
  • Oracle RMAN experience
  • Familiarity with Redis or other key-value stores
  • Familiarity with Java Database interfaces (JDBC, Hibernate)
  • Familiarity with working in Containerized (Docker, Kubernetes) environments
  • Experience with maintaining high availability production databases
  • Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (ex: Ansible)
  • Experience with Database architecture and design
  • Familiarity with migrating on-prem databases to a cloud
  • Experience with tuning and optimizing databases and queries
  • Familiarity with Atlassian tool-suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Demonstrated Agile Development methodology experience
  • Proven experience with database performance tuning techniques, and the ability to effectively communicate solutions with stakeholders, as well as apply them
  • Understanding of Information Security (INFOSEC) and Information Assurance (IA) policies such as ICD503 to ensure system security and data integrity
  • Experience with database scripting languages
  • Experience with general scripting languages