Senior Oracle Database Engineer

job summary:
Our client is hiring for an Senior Oracle Database Engineer to work out of their NJ or Nebraska office 5 days a week on site.

location: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
job type: Contract
salary: $70.00 - 74.84 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:
Job Functions

- Analyze business requirements and provide server and database sizing

- Identify database bottlenecks and provide remediation steps

- Implement database backup solutions

- Perform database restore actions

- Design, implement, and test enterprise level disaster recovery solutions

- Design, implement, and test high availability database solutions including clustering

- Perform user provisioning

- Design and implement security configuration including grants, roles, and profiles

- Perform database security monitoring

- Perform database auditing and implementing security standards

- Perform database tuning related tasks

- Design, size, and implement enterprise level database systems

- Install and configure database software

- Perform database upgrade and patching

- Complete database migrations from legacy to new hardware

- UNIX shell scripting

- Perform OS troubleshooting

- Server capacity planning and resource analysis

- Design and implement logical database schemas including ERD diagraming

- Perform database schema change management

- Control and execute code deployments to upper database environments

- Execute database data movement to satisfy ETL, backup/recover, and other business needs

- Administer and maintain ETL tools including Informatica

- Implement and support enterprise level database backup solutions

- Configure monitoring across all enterprise databases

qualifications:
Experience Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

- Deep understanding or experience supporting databases on Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) or ExaData/ExaCC/ExaCS

- Hands-on experience working with Oracle 12.1 through 19c.

- Database installation, upgrading, migrating, patching, disaster recovery, high availability, monitoring, assessing, and providing resolution.

- Experience with Oracle OEM for database monitoring, and problem diagnosis

- Experience with backup and restore using RMAN

- Knowledge and experience with database capacity planning

- Experience monitoring and analysis of performance metrics and allocation of database resources to achieve optimum database performance

- Familiarity with fail-over testing and participation in DR exercises

- In-depth knowledge of Goldengate or Data Guard replication

- Knowledge of other open source database platforms

- Working with Python, Shell, and PowerShell scripting.

- Designing automated deployments.

- Experience with Unix (AIX), and Linux operating system.

- Experience with Informatica.

- Experience with change management tools including Service Now.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [email protected].


Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.