Contractor Senior Oracle DBA Consultant

Designation: Senior Oracle DBA

Location: 100% Remote, anywhere in Canada

Type: Contractor

Term: 6 – 12 months

Required Experience and Skills

• Minimum 8 years of production database support.
• Hands-on experience supporting large database environments.
• Proven experience with database replication techniques, complexities, automation, monitoring, and high-availability strategies. Use of 3rd party solutions in these techniques is encouraged.
• Previous experience working with Systems Admins in the areas of storage, backups, and database operations processes preferred.
• Excels in a collaborative environment and is willing to own all database related activities.
• Experience with Oracle Multitenant (CDB/PDB).
• Working experience with Golden Gate, desired.
• Working experience with RAC.
• Working experience with ERP systems on Oracle databases (JDE/E1 desired).
• Experiences in disaster recovery and Data Guard setups.
• Experience working in UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms.
• Public Cloud Oracle database experience with OCI required (OCI certifications desired).
• Public Cloud Oracle database experience with AWS desired (AWS certifications desired).
• Migrate Oracle databases.
• Provision Oracle databases.
• Backup and restore databases.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of cloud databases.
• Understand services consumed by each client’s organization.
• Deep understanding of the value of a client’s data and take appropriate measures to keep this value intact.
• Build and maintain highly distributed data pipelines that are high-performance.
• Explore internal and external threat sources.
• Automate common management tasks.

Essential Functions

• Design, document, and monitor the database servers.
• Develop standards and procedures for maintenance and modification of database platforms.
• Provide systems architecture guidance in creating high availability systems.
• Provide direction in capacity planning, performance improvement, and storage management in partnership with other client and internal resources.
• Plan and support the implementation of major architectural changes.
• Develop back-up and recovery procedures, including testing back-ups and data integrity.
• Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of issues.
• Assist Business functions on delivery of timely business metrics data.
• Assist the company in developing a data driven business culture.

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