Senior Oracle Infrastructure DBA $1000 Referral Fe

Our client is a Toronto-based leading international financial services company.They have engaged ROSS (www.getROSS.com) to help them recruit a Senior Oracle
Infrastructure Database Administrator.ROSS is a team of People Specialists helping companies align their
People Strategy with their business growth.We provide contingency
recruitment in addition to remote or onsite HR and Recruitment solutions such
as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Recruitment
Augmentation.

Location:
Montreal, Toronto or Waterloo

This role is for a Senior Oracle Infrastructure
Database Administrator supporting Canadian and US requirements.

You will be a member of a team within Data
Management Services (DMS) called Distributed Database Technologies. This
team is responsible for establishing best practices and architecture planning
on new Oracle releases, new Oracle features and renewal delivery. We
ensure that Oracle database technologies, and associated software, stays
current in terms of CPU patching, hardware renewal and infrastructure
upgrades.

The role includes on-call support and off-hour
implementation requirements.

Main Accountabilities:

• Define and implement Oracle database
  architecture best practices;


• Work with Database Administrators and
  Developers to defining requirements;


• Create or maintain clear and concise
  documentation for all supported database related platforms;


• Infrastructure support of Oracle including:
  server/instance installs (stand-alone and clustered), service-pack
  upgrades, hot fixes, client tool installs, readiness programs, new feature
  exploitation, research and development (as needed by Infrastructure
  manager);


• Support Oracle database and other database
  related product upgrades;


• Performance analysis, monitoring,
  troubleshooting and resolution of issues


• Support project development following
  documented standards, policies and procedures (Change Management Process);


• Regular review of database maintenance and
  performance improvement procedures;


• Ensuring the proper setup and validation of
  backup and restore processes


• Participation in a rotational on-call
  schedule;


• Occasional participation in after-hours and
  weekend support of production implementations, infrastructure activities,
  and various disaster recovery exercises;


• Working closely with other team members,
  technical/team leads, management, specialized IT areas and application
  support teams to ensure consistent delivery and quality of database
  services;


• Define, document and implement consistent
  standards and procedures;


• Managing small to medium size infrastructure
  projects and participating in projects through the entire project
  lifecycle;


• Database stability, availability and
  recoverablility;


• Evaluation of functionality and features
  within Oracle and related database support products;


• Contribute ideas for best practice
  improvements, process improvement, and innovative solutions;


• Organizing and monitoring personal workload
  and escalating to manager when issues arise;


• Administrative intake process support.

Qualifications:

• Understand, can describe and can put into
  action, database concepts;


• University level degree in Computer Science or
  related information technology degree/diploma;


• Excellent verbal and written communication
  skills;


• Passion for database administration;


• Willingness to provide on-call support and
  trouble shooting;


• Strong organizational skills with the ability
  to handle several tasks efficiently;


• Ability to contribute solutions that meet or
  exceed business requirements;


• Willingness to share ideas and speak up in
  groups.

Assets:

• Oracle 10g or 11g certification;


• PLSQL skills that include an understanding of
  system tables, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and SQL tuning;


• Experience with Oracle installations and
  patching;


• Oracle database tuning using native Oracle or
  other third-party tools;


• Unix scripting;


• Knowledge of Oracle Enterprise Manager or GRID
  Control;


• Knowledge of RMAN backup and recovery
  strategies;


• Knowledge of Oracle replication, mirroring,
  log shipping, maintenance plans and DR recovery strategies;


• Experience with Sybase Power Designer and
  Embarcadero DBArtisan;


• Experience with Veritas clustering software;


• Some knowledge of data-mapping and logical and
  physical data modeling;


• Experience with Oracle running on various
  operating systems;


• Knowledge or experience with SQL Server.