The Senior Database Administrator manages database technologies, resolves issues, implements standards, and develops scripts, primarily focusing on Oracle databases.
The Senior Database Administrator is responsible for designing, developing and implementing new technologies, as required, to support the technical capabilities at Cox Automotive. To be successful in this role one must be able to work effectively in a fluid, fast-paced environment. This role requires good communication skills, both with team members and business contacts. In addition, the successful Database Administrator must be able to work with minimal supervision on multiple concurrent projects.
Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
Qualifications:
Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
- Participate in functional test planning and testing for the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)
- Participate in problem solving and troubleshooting for the assigned application(s), functional area(s) or project(s)
- Share knowledge by effectively documenting work
- Respond quickly and effectively to production issues and taking responsibility for seeing those issues through resolution.
- Resolve database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other distributed data issues.
- Install and maintain database software.
- Manage backup and recovery of databases using RMAN and/or Network Appliance Snapshots.
- Manage security of database structures and corporate data held within databases.
- Develop database procedures, triggers and SQL scripts for development teams.
- Assist in the definition and implementation of database standards.
- Review scripts submitted by the Development team to ensure that all standards are met.
- Monitor databases for errors and perform problem determination when necessary.
- Design and implement highly available production systems using the following technologies: Active Data Guard, Oracle Goldengate, Advanced Queuing, Real Application Cluster (RAC) and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
- Develop Ansible playbooks to provision and manage Database infrastructure.
- Participate in on-call rotations
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
- 10 + years of experience in Oracle database technologies
- Prior experience writing PL/SQL triggers and/or procedures.
- Experience with Database SQL and Database tuning.
- Experience with setting up and maintaining data replication using Oracle GoldenGate is a must.
- Experience developing ansible playbooks is a plus.
- Experience supporting Database infrastructure in AWS is a must.
- Experience supporting Amazon RDS, EC2, S3, VPC, Subnets infrastructure in AWS is a plus.
- Experience Supporting MySQL/PostgreSQL is a big plus.
- Ability to work with minimal direction, yet also able to work in team environment.
- Working knowledge of LINUX and shell scripting.
- Experience configuring database network connectivity.
- Understanding of database backup and recovery techniques using RMAN and Network Appliance filers.
- Experience with high volume websites that use multi-tier architectures a significant plus.
- Hand on experience using Oracle Real Application Cluster's and implementation best-practices. (3 years)
- Ability to analyze existing systems and make recommendations on which technology best suits the business requirement for high availability, Disaster Recovery or high performance.
- Experience setting up and Managing OEM 13c is a plus.
Top Skills
Ansible
AWS
Goldengate
Linux
MySQL
Oracle
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Pl/Sql
Postgres
Rman
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