Oracle DBA

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for an Oracle DBA for a 6 month contract opportunity.  The position is located in Toronto.

Job Description:

As an experienced Senior Database Administrator you will be assigned to a large Business Intelligence (BI) Program that is currently underway at our client.  You will be responsible for the design, deployment, technical support, security administration and ongoing maintenance of our client’s development and production, Oracle DBMS environments – which support this Program. The BI program is leveraging Netezza appliance technology.   Ideally you will have experience with Data warehousing concepts; working with staging, landing areas, and Datamarts. You will support the design, installation, testing, and implementation of the various Datamarts for several projects within the BI program.  You will be called upon on a regular basis to participate in the planning process (providing technical assessments, recommending possible solutions, providing effort estimates) for DBA duties.

Responsibilities:

Provide expert Oracle as well as Netezza technical support, database design and consulting services to the overall “Business Intelligence” Provide on-call project database support for our client’s Oracle and Netezza test and production database environments for the projects that are implemented within this BI Program Monitor, maintain, administer and tune our client’s production databases that are related to this Program Ensure proper backup and recoverability of our client’s production Oracle and Netezza DBMS environments and databases. Design, Build/configure, implement test and production Oracle and Netezza database instances as required.  Maintain backup / recovery strategies to ensure recoverability of production Oracle and Netezza databases in the event of failure, Provide on-call project database support on a rotating basis for the BI Program.  Install, configure, patch Oracle and Netezza DBMS software as required, regularly monitor and tune our client’s production BI Oracle and Netezza databases to ensure their optimal performance.  Contribute to database protection ensuring appropriate access, Research and report Oracle software bugs to Oracle; Netezza bugs to Netezza.

 Qualified Candidates will have:

-  3-5 years working as an Oracle DBA with the following in a UNIX environment:

-  Oracle 11gR2

-  Understanding of Data warehousing concepts including staging, landing areas, Datamarts

-  UNIX shell scripting experience

-  Solid understanding of data modeling and database design

-  Experience designing and implementing backup and recovery strategies; performance monitoring and tuning

-  Excellent verbal and written communication skills

-  Excellent organizational skills; particularly the ability to manage time well and juggle multiple project activities and priorities

Nice to Have:

-  RMAN, Grid Control, Performance monitoring concepts, Partitioning concepts

-  Netezza (Twinfin v. 6)

Experience with one or more of the following:

-   Assyst change management software; ESP Job Scheduling package; IBM's IMS High Performance Utility Tools

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