Oracle Database Admin

Job Title: Oracle Database Administrator


Location: Littleton, CO (Onsite)


Contract Length: 6-12 months with option to extend


Requirements:

• Candidates must be able to obtain and/or maintain a Department of Defense TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance as a condition and continuation of employment
• Security+ Certification

Overview

As the DB Administrator, you will be responsible for the administration of program ops and non-ops Oracle database. DB administration includes facilitating creation of databases, providing database tuning, and monitoring database security, performance, and utilization. This position must proactively monitor the database systems, recognize issues, and provide solutions that prevent or minimize customer impact. These issues are often difficult and complex and may require innovative solutions such as design and development of scripts, tools, and utilities to ensure operational credibility. You will perform the process of database security in compliance with the client's policies, translating these policies into database settings.

DB Administrator responsibilities include performing all necessary procedures for the program. Specific development, test, and ops responsibilities include:

• Lead all efforts related to the design, maintenance, and administration of multiple classified database technologies
• Recommend then implement new database solutions, products, and/or standards in support of program goals & operations
• Evaluate, install and test database management systems (DBMS) upgrades and patches for DBMS software, application software, and other software related to DBMS administration
• Work with the system administrators for hardware and software installations and configurations, participate in the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate hardware and software resources for databases
• Support program requests - data copies across environments, data cleanup, query tuning, etc.
• Support projects/initiatives related to data acquisition, processing, and utilization through Big Data Platform
• Work with end users to identify and resolve issues
• Analyze current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities
• Participate in 24/7 on-call support, as needed

Basic Skills

• Strong experience administering Oracle database technologies
• Strong experience with Oracle products
• Experience applying security patches and upgrades
• Experience with addressing database outages
• Experience maintaining SQL databases

Desired Skills

• Oracle DB Certification
• Oracle RAC experience
• Orcale RMAN experience
• Familiarity with Redis or other key-value stores
• Familiarity with Java Database interfaces (JDBC, Hibernate)
• Familiarity with working in Containerized (Docker, Kubernetes) environments
• Experience with maintaining high availability production databases
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (ex: Ansible)
• Experience with Database architecture and design
• Familiarity with migrating on-prem databases to a cloud
• Experience with tuning and optimizing databases and queries
• Familiarity with Atlassian tool-suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrated Agile Development methodology experience
• Proven experience with database performance tuning techniques, and the ability to effectively communicate solutions with stakeholders, as well as apply them
• Understanding of Information Security (INFOSEC) and Information Assurance (IA) policies such as ICD503 to ensure system security and data integrity
• Experience with database scripting languages
• Experience with general scripting languages
• Proficiency with multiple operating systems (Unix, Linux, Windows)

EEO Employer

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