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Job title

SR Oracle DBA Specialist-Plano (19571)

Company Perot Systems
Wage Not specified
Location United States, Texas, Plano
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 9/4/2008
Description
PEROT SYSTEMS CORPORATION is a worldwide provider of information technology services and business solutions to a broad range of clients. It is currently looking for a SR Oracle DBA Specialist to join our team in Plano, TX.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Works closely with the Technical Project Manager, & Enterprise Reporting Team Lead ensuring the Oracle data base is appropriately sized, tuned and modeled for the data reporting & sharing requirements of the organization

  • Understand the Cache database as it relates to the Oracle/Clarity environment

  • Develops and maintains liaison with application specific reporting analysts & programmers as needed to ensure continuity of service to end users

  • Support new project development including system analysis, planning and preparation

  • Create and maintain regular status reports to immediate Team Leader

  • Develop, support and maintain documentation and procedures as needed, provide training to other IT staff and user clients as appropriate

  • Attends weekly team meetings to discuss team and project related activities, issues, change, communications, and updates

  • Completes specific team task activities as documented on the Work Plan

  • Supports all project team members with application and information systems knowledge. Primary resource dedicated to design and configuration of the Oracle database

  • Documents and maintains all required system design and build documents

  • Provides expertise and experience to the development of activation plans, application activation tasks, and production environment readiness

  • Logs, tracks, and resolves issues as well as any software code modifications or enhancements

  • Logs, tracks, analyzes, and coordinates system changes including any software code implementations

  • Daily database monitoring for errors & events

  • Issue fixes and problem resolution for production and development databases

  • Off hours patching and maintenance tasks

  • Logging and executing on support requests with database vendors

  • Performing tests and routine validation of backup and recovery scenarios

  • Documenting issue resolution & providing status reports to key team members

  • Incident response for production systems, including 24x7 on call rotation

  • Frequent phone and email communication with customers and internal resources


    • Required Skills:
  • 5+ years of Oracle database administration experience, with specific expertise in enteprise reporting
  • Business Objects (Crystal Decisions Enterprise)

  • Hands on Data modeling experience

  • Skilled in Database Security

  • 2+ yrs experience using Oracle in a Unix AIX environment

  • 2+ years SQL scripting or programming experience

  • 2+ years working in a Data Warehouse environment

  • 2+ years of database monitoring, performance tuning, backup & recovery

  • Familiarity with industry standard database monitoring tools such as Oracle Enterprise Manager or Sql Server Management Studio


    • Desired Skills:
  • Oracle OCA or OCP certification is a plus

  • Oracle 10g experience

  • Familiarity with EPIC healthcare information management system
  • Solid understanding of current applications and trends in business intelligence and enterprise reporting

  • 3-5 years extensive experience maintaining, installing, configuring an Oracle RDBMS database. SQL Server experience is also a plus

  • Academic Medical Center experience preferred

  • Excellent matrix management skills as a team member

  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and as a member of various teams


    • Minimum Educational Requirements:
  • Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology/Information Systems or relevant experience




    • This position requires after hours and weekend work and will participate in the 24X7 on call rotation


    Perot Systems is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity. It is the policy of Perot Systems Corporation to encourage and support equal employment opportunity for all Associates and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran status.df-tc

    Experience/Skills
    See Above

    Other desired skills:
    oracle DBA
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