Oracle DBA (Performance and Tuning)

Oracle DBA - Performance and Tuning

Madison Ave, NY and Jersey City, NJ

4 days a week onsite work mandatory (Local candidates ONLY)

Contract to hire - No work visa sponsorship at this time

Financial Industry experience is a MUST

Education

• Bachelor's or higher degree from an accredited college in the US

Skills Requirement

• 10+ years experience in working in an IT services organization.
• At least 8+ years of Oracle Database experience
• Knowledge and understanding of the ITIL process.
• In client-facing roles (s) for at least 3 years.
• Excellent documentation skills in MS SharePoint 2010 /2013

Mandatory skills Oracle administration required skills.

• Performance tuning on Oracle databases.
• Oracle DBA with experience in large and critical environments.
• Exceptional Knowledge of performance tuning at both server level and query level. Candidate must have knowledge of OEM, AWR Reports, and TKProf.
• Good Knowledge of Oracle internals.
• Good Knowledge of Oracle partitioning.
• Must have automation experience. Good knowledge of scripting. Ability to write PL-SQL scripts, Shell.
• Firsthand experience with RAC.

Good to have skills

• Experience with Golden Gate
• Experience with OUD, Database Vault, and Database Encryption in transit and at rest

Certifications Desired

• Oracle certifications

High-Level Role Responsibilities and Interpersonal skills needed for this role

• Ability to think about a problem, identify what we have, and implement solutions to solve the problem independently.
• Work with the onsite client team / Application owners in the US / UK to tune Oracle databases.
• Need to be able to work with application groups and independently of the database group.
• Proactively tune databases.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to think in and out of the box. Produce service improvement ideas and innovative solutions.
• Initiative-taking, conscientious individual who works equally well independently or as a team member.
• Must be willing to take responsibility and ownership of work.
• Enable and support the team in resolving day-to-day production issues.
• Work on Change implementations during UK and US business hours & weekends as per the change management process
• Documentation & Operational performance reporting
• Own Service Improvements
• Execute on-demand IT projects.
• Drive compliance with client and organization processes and policies
• Ensure the Quality of deliverables
• The above is not a comprehensive list and could change based on business requirements