Database Administrator (Oracle - MS-SQL)

Database Administrator (Oracle - MS-SQL)

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or relevant subjects

Experience:

• 2+ years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Perform data modeling, database design, master data management, and data profiling in a large-scale OLTP and OLAP database environments
• Identify strategies to meet application availability, scalability and performance requirements and areas of opportunity for optimizing the Oracle, MSSQL and Vertica environment
• Conduct performance trending and backups across multiple Database instances and create new accounts as required
• Manage patch deployments and upgrades following best practices and provide capacity planning expertise using Oracle's OEM Cloud Control
• Provide administration of development database environments including UAT, Processing, Development and QA based Oracle RAC database
• Perform security implementation in both OS and Database level of production servers ensuring several standard policies and compliances (HIPAA, SOX, PHI)
• Support the business to provide logistic support to Analytics, Production Engineers, Project Managers and Developers
• Working with a distributed team of IT and DBA resources to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that all the database platforms are highly available, optimally configured and efficiently managed
• Maintain Production servers and minimize downtime and tuning performance of database instances
• Perform short and long-term system/database planning and analysis including capacity planning, storage performance, system performance and database performance using RMAN backup and recovery, Oracle 11gR2 and RAC production environments.
• Daily use of SQL, PL/SQL and T-SQL,Performance tuning of Oracle and MS SQL along with installation, configuration, upgrade and maintenance activities
• Maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) of database systems.

MUST HAVE SKILLS

• MSSQL 2008 R2/2012/2014 Database administration including installation and configuration including High Availability (HA) with always on availability clusters
• Backup Practice with minimum data loss in case of disaster and Point in Time Recovery
• Strong knowledge of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) with MDX, DMX and XMLA queries
• Knowledge of MSSQL Reporting services and Integration Services along with BIDS tools
• Strong knowledge of T-SQL with performance tuning and optimization
• HIPAA regulations and PCI standards within the U.S. healthcare data management industry
• Knowledge of Oracle 10g/11g/12c, ASM, Oracle RAC, Oracle Grid Control, Data Pump, Data Guard, Oracle Streams, Oracle Directory Services, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Cloud Control, PL/SQL
• Should have knowledge of Linux and Windows OS.
• Knowledge of Shell, Perl, bash, PowerShell and batch Scripting language
• Familiarity with Hadoop and its components YARN, MapReduce, and HDFS with knowledge of HBase and Hive databases, security administration,cluster administrationand troubleshooting.

PREFERABLE SKILLS

• Knowledge and demonstrable capability in scripting, experience in writing Python/PowerShell/Bash and similar scripts; knowledge in Java is a plus.
• Experience with Atlassian suite of tools (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Crucible)
• Administer custom engineered Oracle EXADATA based Oracle Database software technologies

SOFT SKILLS

• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Experience of working in SCRUM/Agile team would be added value
• Persuasive in both written and verbal communication
• Strong Analytical Skills
• US Healthcare experience would be added value

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