The ideal candidate for this position will be a seasoned DBA having a minimum of 2 years experience. This position requires solid experience with installation, administration, design, capacity planning, architecture, tuning and optimization of the database.
Daily Activities include but not limited to:
- Maintain multiple development, test and production oracle databases
- Bash shell scripting.
- Schema design and normalization
- Perform routine DBA tasks such as creating new tablespaces and users, granting privileges, altering init parameters, creating tables and indexes.
- Install, configure and administer Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
- Communicate with hardware vendors for support
Requirements:
- 2 years minimum full-time, progressive experience in relational database design, setup, administration and management using Oracle.
- Firm understanding of Oracle database concepts: SGA, PGA, SPFILE, controlfiles, datafiles, tempfiles, undo, redo, archived logs, flash recovery area, etc.
- Oracle 10g experience.
- PL/SQL and SQL experience.
- 1 year minimum progressive experience with Linux network design, setup, administration and management.
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentation).
- Experience working in a software development environment.
- Computer Science degree or equivalent plus experience
- SQL Server experience is an asset.
Preference will be given to candidates with these additional qualifications:
- DBA Certified Professional designation.
- Red Hat Advanced Server experience.
- SAN familiarity.