Oracle DBA

Skills

4-year college degree in Computer Science Math Engineering or related field OR 3+ years IT related experience Self-learner with desire to solve difficult problems. 2+ years' experience SQL and PL/SQL or T-SQL programming 2+ years' experience with Unix shell Perl or OS scripting language 2+ years' experience with performance tuning Strong knowledge of operating systems (i.e. Windows Linux) Excellent oral and written communication skills Experience doing database backup and recovery. Available to work outside normal business hours including weekends and be on-call (7 days x 24 hours) Effectively use Microsoft tools including Outlook Word Excel Visio and PowerPoint

Description

Currently hiring for a Contract-to-Hire Oracle Database Administrator. This role develops solutions within HealthPartners predefined database architecture. This position works closely with application developers to identify needs and set up appropriate pipelines to maintain the effectiveness and efficiency of the database. The engineer is responsible for functions and automation that pertain to development, analysis, performance tuning, and modeling of data.

Responsibilities

• 2+ years' experience with DevOps or database administration
• Experience creating DevOps and Automation (i.e., Ansible, Jenkins, Git) solutions.
• Experience with OpenShift
• Experience with Liquibase
• Experience with Azure Public Cloud
• Experience working in an agile/scrum environment.
• Administration of Oracle Exadata appliance.
• Oracle Certified Professional - OCP DBA Professional
• Experience with MySQL and Microsoft SQL Databases

Educational Requirements

• Automates the creation and maintenance of databases for all environments.
• Provides primary DB support for implementing, upgrading, and maintaining the DBMS (Oracle) environments.
• Develops modern technologies and techniques to optimize database stability, resilience, and security.
• Monitors and resolve application connectivity and DB interface issues; proactively working with other support teams to ensure that application problems do not adversely affect production operations.
• Collaborates with application developers and vendors to report and resolve problems.
• Implements and tests database backup and recovery technology / procedures for database environments.
• Mentors and educates HealthPartners technical staff, DB users and vendors in techniques to optimize query performance.
• Ensures compliance of all DB security standards in collaboration with IS&T Security Management.
• Debugs problematic database issues, provide analysis for future enhancements and development; proactively maintaining effective and efficient database structures and system processing.
• Forecasts and analyzes future capacity needs and develops tools and utilities to mitigate future capacity issues.