Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Senior Oracle DBA

Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC; Chicago, IL

Hybrid-Remote (1 day/week on-site)

9-Month Contract-to-Hire

Our Fortune 250 Energy client is looking for an Oracle DBA to join their growing, innovative team! As a Database Administrator you will be responsible for the designing, implementing, maintaining, security and repairs of the organization’s database. At our client, you will have the opportunity to work with a talented group of DBA’s using many Oracle technologies such as Exadata, database v. 19c, CDB/PDB, Transparent Data Encryption, SSL encryption in transit, Centrally Managed Users, OID and OEM as well as both the Azure and Oracle Cloud.

In addition to maintaining the database support tools, database tables and dictionaries, recovery and back up procedures you will also be instrumental in the transition to a new server. You will interact daily with the technical operations, finance, and marketing teams. We are currently hiring to help with projects such as Load Forecasting, GIS Convergence, OpenText Upgrade and many others! If you feel the below job description fits your qualifications or are interested in learning more, we encourage you to apply!

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline 8+ years hands-on experience with Oracle RDBMS or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Broad technical expertise with deep technical knowledge in Oracle RDBMS 11.2, 12c and 19c.
• Advanced level knowledge: General RDBMS, Database Statistics, Database upgrades, Data Guard
• Solid working level knowledge: RAC (Real Application Clusters), Exadata (X6-X9am), ASM, Grid Infrastructure, RMAN, working in a Unix shell, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle database compliance framework, vi editor, working with Oracle Databases on Unix (Solaris) and RedHat/Oracle Linux
• Understanding of change management principles associated with new technology implementations.
• Understands and applies project management principles when leading and directing work.
• Maintains deep knowledge of database technology and its application across our client.
• Participates in technological innovation to drive new business opportunities and solve complex business problems.
• Understands commands used to list nodes in a cluster, commands to get overall status of resources, what kind of storage voting disks/OCR is stored, what a SCAN listener does, how to do rolling patching in a database with JVM installed, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recent Oracle Certified Professional Certification
• Experience with Oracle Database in Oracle Cloud or Azure
• GoldenGate experience
• Kornshell scripting
• Multi-tenancy database architecture (CDB & PDB)

Job Responsibilities:

• Undertakes complex database projects requiring specialized technical knowledge.
• Provides Oracle DBA expertise to our client’s emerging project list; including but not limited to: Load Forecasting, GIS Convergence, and OpenText Upgrade.
• Makes well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous database issues.
• Provide technical database expertise and/or solution delivery support for maintaining performance and reliability of database solutions.
• Maintain and enhance engagement with business and IT partners to determine requirements in support of service levels and project commitments.
• Establishes partner relationships with clients, internal and external.
• Build and maintains knowledge of new technologies or technology opportunities and assists in development of analysis for business and/or IT clients.
• Participate in relevant IT Architecture Domain Groups to appropriately review and plan the introduction of new database technologies.
• Ensures appropriate implementation of technology both within the production and the development environments.
• Establishes and communicates common technical goals/direction for team.
• Promotes and encourages Diversity & Inclusion

What’s in it for you?

• A welcoming, team environment where you will be provided an opportunity to work with a Fortune 250 company in Baltimore, MD.
• Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.