ORACLE DBA -- Western Suburbs of Chicago

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OPERATIONAL  ORACLE  DBA


Position Description:
This position will report to the Manager of Systems Services.  The 
DBA will work in the Oracle environment and help manage a complex 
production and development environment.  This person will interact 
with many constituencies to develop database solutions to business 
problems.  This person will assist Development DBAs with the design 
of tables, relationships, stored procedures and triggers.  This 
person will work independently to ensure that the database is 
operating efficiently and to ensure that proper backup and disaster 
recovery methods are maintained.

Position Qualifications:
q	Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent.
q	Minimum of 5 years' experience in database administration or 
development, with a minimum of 3 years' of Oracle DBA experience.
q	Experience in Oracle 11i Applications (ERP, CRM, etc.)
q	Experience in Oracle Portal environment a plus.
q	Experience with Oracle Discoverer.
q	Experience with OID and LDAP.  Active Director integration 
experience a plus.
q	Proven track record in managing and tuning large volume 
Oracle databases.
q	Experience in UNIX environment required – SUN SOLARIS 
preferred.
q	Excellent communications skills.
q	Experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery 
process/scenarios.

Position Characteristics:
q	Plan and coordinate the activities related to running 
production Oracle Applications environments.
q	Plan and coordinate the development, test and training 
environments in support of the production environment.
q	Plan and design database physical structure to accommodate 
large transaction and high availability.
q	Perform database and application monitoring and tuning to 
ensure databases run at peak performance.  Troubleshooting of 
performance issues.
q	Assist in the design and implementation of security policy.
q	Work with development DBA (Database Developer) to implement 
the logical database design in physical environment.  Provide 
solutions for database sizing/capacity, server requirements and space 
requirements.
q	Work with Operation group to design, implement and test 
enterprise backup and recovery solution, including Disaster Recovery 
initiatives.
q	Work with the Systems and Networks groups to 
implement/integrate OID with Active Directory, LDAP and/or DHCP 
solutions.
q	Work with the Networks and Systems groups to ensure the 
platforms are robust enough to support the needs of the database.
q	Review new database programs, functions, procedures, and 
packages before they are loaded to production database.
q	Install, configure, trouble-shoot Oracle/SQL database and 
Oracle Application system (including Portal, Single-Signon, 
Discoverer and third party application system) in all servers.  
Upgrade/Patching database and system based on Development/Operations 
request.
q	Support data loading, conversion and batch job operation and 
do trouble-shooting of development/production system.
q	Do database sizing, capacity planning and implement system 
security.

SALARY RANGE:  $90's.

Please forward your resume / c.v. :

Bil Norris
Diamond Consulting Inc.
630-586-0000 x19
specmark at aol.com