Senior Database Engineer - Oracle

Location
Overland Park, Kansas

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building architecture and lifecycle models and strategies for the on-premises Oracle environments.
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain/administer oracle clusters.
• Work with service consumers to coordinate periodic DB management operations and upgrades.
• Provide recommendations and execute planned adjustments for optimizing performance on all Oracle database instances.
• manage monitoring of the Oracle footprint using Oracle Enterprise Monitoring.
• manage replication administration and monitoring for the Oracle footprint.
• Act as subject matter expert for troubleshooting and resolving Oracle service and performance issues.
• Perform on call rotations, serving as Oracle SME and initial contact for other DB platforms.
• Perform administrative tasks in the Oracle environment including but not limited to user administration, permissions, schema and instance creation, security adjustments, storage administration, backup and recovery, and service tickets.
• Collaborate with service consumers to optimize database design and queries.
• Create basic automation scripts (shell, Perl, python).
• Jenkins experience is a plus.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by manager.
• Some travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Proactive and thorough communication skills with teammates, service consumers, and management are required for continued success in this role.
• 5+ years supporting, maintaining, and administering Oracle clusters in an enterprise environment.
• Strong experience with Oracle DBMS, GoldenGate, DataGuard, and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• Strong experience with Oracle hardware platforms ( , Exadata, ODA, etc.)
• Strong experience with RedHat Linux (or derivatives) is desired.
• Experience scripting in Bash, Perl, and/or Python is desired.
• Experience with MySQL or its derivatives is a plus.
• Must be able to participate in on-call rotation.
• Must have experience and be able to support operational tasks such as patching and administration.
• Should have experience in a 24x7x365 enterprise environment meeting uptime SLAs of 99.99% or greater.

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