| Duties & Responsibilites : | -The position is on a permanent basis for a large company in the Baltimore Metro area.
-The Sr. Database Administrator is responsible for all aspects of database administration, monitoring and deployment cycle via development, QA, and production databases.
-The successful candidate must possess Oracle RAC and 11g experience, and strong SQL knowledge.
-A candidate with strong leadership ability is highly preferred.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Plan and design effective database strategies
- Create scripts, stored procedures, triggers, or data transformation/sync packages as required
- Monitor databases for performance and perform tuning
- Upgrading, Installing, configuring, and regular database system maintenance
- Database health monitoring
- Schedule batch jobs and backups
- Production schema management
- Provide design recommendations for software/database architecture
- Partner with IT team members to ensure a reliable database environment
- Plan database security across multiple databases, servers, and applications
- Manage clustered database configuration
REQUIRED Skills:
- Knowledge of database design principles and when trade-offs are important
- Experience deploying full life-cycle enterprise-wide solutions
- Good SQL programming techniques and tuning/tracing
- Experience in writing scripts and procedures
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and techniques
- Experience with data replication (GoldenGate, Data Guard)
- Experience in production administration of business critical database systems
- Experience in design, testing, and implementation
- Experience in managing database schema, security, storage and data in production environment
- Experience in installation and upgrades of database systems
- Hands-on experience with database performance tuning and optimization for mission-critical production systems
- Strong development experience including data modeling and database schema design
- Strong skills in writing and optimizing SQL stored procedures, functions and triggers
- Solid experience with database replication, synchronization, and transformation
- Knowledge of OLAP and Data Warehousing technologies
- Good understanding of the best industry practices and standards related to database administration
PREFERRED:
.NET or C# programming experience |
