Oracle Apps DBA

Description

JOB SUMMARY Supports and maintains our corporate ERP internal systems and our various databases for our business applications team. Provides support/administration of internal databases. Provides ERP implementation vendor support and guidance for application and database installation. Provides database technical support primarily for Oracle ERP applications.Provides tuning on various applications database environments.Handles installation, release upgrades, security, validation checks, corrections, production migration support and transports to the database environments.Maintains and provides infrastructure improvements to existing database applications.Conveys to management our longterm requirements for the administration of database applications in accordance with overall information system requirements.Acts as mentor for the development other less senior staff database administrators.Confers with and advises technical peers and managers on the administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities and methods.Assumes principle responsibility for all enterprise database backup and recovery schemes, and database failover strategy.Provides assistance to our internal development community by consulting with and advising users on various development databases.Learns and administer multiple database technologies (e.g. SQL Server, Essbase, etc.) as required to support business applications. Lead or participate in other projects or duties. Knowledge, skills and abilities Ability to design and implement complex databases with respect to access methods, access times, device allocations, validation checks, organization, protection and security, documentation, and statistical methods.Ability to maintain a database dictionaries, overall monitoring of standards and procedures and integration of systems through database design. Ability to apply professional concepts, experience and company objectives in order to perform an indepth analysis of situations or data to resolve complex issues in creative ways.Ability to work without supervision. Wide latitude for independent decision making.Ability to network with key contacts outside own area of expertise.Ability to listen and understand information and communicate the same.Must possess good interpersonal organizational, presentation and facilitation skills.Must be results oriented, customer focused, and exhibit good interpersonal skills.Proficiency in Microsoft Office packages.Sufficient knowledge of business communication, including telephone, voicemail, and email and operations of office machines, such as photocopier, scanner, and fax. EDUCATION, TRAINING and experience BS degree in Computer Science or a related field or computerprogramming certificate from a trade/technical school.10 years experience as an Oracle Database Administrator, including 10 years experience with PLSQL and SQL Plus. 5 years experience managing ERP implementations and upgrades and developing and deploying enterprise Oracle database backup and recovery management practices. 5 years experience working in a Sun Solaris/Unix Oracle Database environment.Experience with ERP Application Server management or Apache server management required Experienced in Unix system administration and Microsoft NT Administration. Perl or Unix Korn Shell scripting is required. Experience developing and managing an enterprise Oracle failover database strategyJava or any other object oriented programming experience is preferred, as is Oracle Parallel Server management and development experience with ERP development tools (forms and reports).Experience working in Oracle 11i and higher strongly preferred.