Oracle DBA

Description

Description Senior Oracle DBA position on the Oracle DBA Team at Duke Energy. The Oracle DBA team is responsible for the 24x7 availability of mission critical databases in production environment and User Acceptance, Development, and Test environments for fastpaced delivery. There is a high expectation in availability, performance and scalability to support the tremendous growth of various applications within the company. The DBA team is responsible for the design, build, ongoing maintenance, failure avoidance, detection and repair of the Oracle database instances associated with the applications. Required Skills Proven Oracle Database Administration experience in production and development environments (6+ years) including installing, patching, and upgrading Oracle Databases Strong Data Warehousing DBA experience (3+ years) Strong handson experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service and optimum storage capability including query optimization, initialization parameters, etc. The day to day responsibilities of a Senior Oracle DBA include Implementation and support of Oracle Database Systems on enterprise and dedicated UNIX servers to support Duke Energy applications Design, install, tune, maintain and monitor Oracle databases, products and services; including, but not limited to, storage management, DB performance tuning, DB software debugging, backup and recovery, and change/configuration maintenance Works closely with technical and client management to design and implement Oracle databases, associated support tools and processes in support of complex business application development requirements and processes Performs problem resolution and root cause analysis along with recommending and implementing preventive techniques. Ensure standardization of systems implementation, support techniques, and adherence to formal processes, change control, best practices, and total quality practices in all activities. Serve as project manager for medium to large scale project assignments Participate in 24 X 7 Oncall support rotation for Oracle database systems, products and services Ensure effective communications to internal IM customers along with customers outside of the department