Oracle Database Administrator

Description

Farmington Hills, MI - 2 days a week on site, (Tuesday/Wednesday)

Our client is currently recruiting for an Oracle & Cloud Database Administrator to support our Farmington Hills Headquarters. This role can sit remotely and is a new role within the company. This is a great opportunity to make this role your own. The ideal candidate will also possess the following skill set.

Summary Statement

Provides expertise to build and manage high performing application and reporting database environments in collaboration with application development teams. Supports existing database environments to maintain high scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.

Essential Tasks/Major Duties

• Support the release and change management processes by migrating/deploying database management system (DBMS) objects and code through the software development life cycle (SDLC), in collaboration with application development teams.

• Collaborate with development teams to design and build database structures that support business and technical requirements using Agile Methodologies.

• Assist with the organization's migration to cloud-native technologies like Amazon RDS.

• Proactively evaluate database, application and overall system performance and make recommendations for improvements while working with cross-functional teams on implementation.

• Provide input to the development organization on the creation of high performing database design and software code.

• Plan and coordinate database migrations between environments.

• Participate in production database support; work with application and other technical teams to resolve incidents in a timely manner.

• Assist in the development of database practices and standards supporting application programming and database implementation.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Bachelor's degree in information systems or related field, or equivalent years of experience.

• 5+ years of working technical experience installing, configuring, and supporting database management systems; including Oracle Exadata.

• 2+ years working knowledge of GoldenGate configuration, maintenance, and support.

• Exposure to at least one of the following cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, others. Certification is a plus.

• Experience working with automation technologies like Cloud Formation and/or Terraform is a plus.

• Cloud data migration experience is a plus.

• Experience with Oracle 12c or higher, Oracle Advanced Security, and Oracle Enterprise Manager, Grid Infrastructure, Linux scripting, etc.

• Experience with SQL queries and performance tuning.

• Exposure to agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban is a plus.

• Good written and oral communication skills and technical documentation skills.

• Ability to conduct research into database issues, standards, and products as required.

• Demonstrated successful ability to build positive partnerships and work collaboratively with cross-functional business teams.

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Skills

Business analysis, Requirements gathering, Business requirements, Data, Jira, Business process, Data analysis, guidewire, Cloud, Devops, Automation, Terraform, Python, Architecture, Infrastructure, Jenkins, Scripting, Linux, Aws

Top Skills Details

Business analysis,Requirements gathering,Business requirements,Data,Jira,Business process,Data analysis,guidewire,Cloud,Devops,Automation,Terraform,Python,Architecture,Infrastructure

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

The candidate needs to be local and able to come on site 2 days per week in Farmington Hills, MI.

Notes from call

Onsite role, Oracle specific. As deep as they can get. Oracle talent, some oracle cloud, OCI, Oracle tooling- golden gate, OEM, Exadata. Migrating to exaCS. Exadata cloud services is exaCS. Nice to haves, leading CSP is AWS. Going into lakehouse (don't need to have that). Legacy DBA skills. Will be on 19.c. 1 year contract to hire

Two staff DBA's, one moved on. Onboarded some offshore assistants through Deloitte. Pod of people, small team of mid-level oracle DBA's.

Experience Level

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.