Position: Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Location: Broomfield

Description:

Senior DBA System Administrator with experience in Oracle technology. Analytical ability, strong judgment, problem analysis techniques, an in-depth knowledge of database administration, along with a broad knowledge of diverse data administration methodologies, database technologies, tools, and alternatives.

Responsibilities:

- The individual will perform database creation, administration and tuning
to support our customers’ development, test and production databases.

- The individual will be responsible to help establish and adhere to
successful open systems database team standard scalable practices.

- The individual will be expected to display expertise in Oracle RAC and
provide mentoring to other team members in this area.

- The individual will be responsible for day-to-day database maintenance
such as creating backups, editing indexes and performing installations and
upgrades.

- The individual will be called upon to perform a variety of database optimizations that will include general reporting and analysis of the efficiency of the database configuration and periodic review of database performance.

- Expertise and work efforts will focus on the development and support
and/or the customization of new services and support efforts.

- The individual will need to work with vendor personnel to achieve timely
solutions of database problems.

- Participation in on-call responsibilities is required.

* Oracle is supported on all Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms. This
multi-tier experience is a requirement.

Qualifications/Education:

- BA/BS or equivalent work experience.

- Demonstrated ability to respond quickly and effectively to support requests from clients (as a result of software product issues).

- Five years of professional experience in database development, administration and support.

- Oracle Certified Professional certification preferred.

* Experience establishing policies and procedures pertaining to database management, security, maintenance and utilization preferred

- Technical Skills: Extensive experience with the following:

- Building and supporting databases in Oracle.

- Implementing a database schema across multiple database platforms.

- Tuning and optimizing aspects of the database.

- Vendor backup & recovery software (TSM, VERITAS, Legato), Oracle’s RMAN
backup API interfaces.

- Troubleshooting and solving production database issues.

- Scripting languages

- Building and supporting RAC across multiple OS platforms (Windows, Linux, UNIX).

- Building and supporting Oracle OEM/Grid Control

- Building and supporting Oracle Data Guard

- Upgrading major releases of Oracle (i.e. upgrading Oracle 9i to Oracle 11g)

- Strong analytical and design skills.

- Ability to mentor team members in open systems DBA environments.

- Solid understanding of documentation and production support.

* Strong teamwork skills.

· Strong project management and good oral/written communication skills.

Compensation:

$ 85 - 110k+ (depending on years of relevant experience, education, etc.)

Contact:

Should you be interested in this position, please email a clean copy of your
resume (Word format preferred) to jackie AT sorcesolutions DOT com along with 3-5 available times for a telephone prescreening (30 minutes maximum). In order to ensure a response within 48 hours, please be sure to include the position title in the subject line of your response message.

Jacqueline M. Sorce
Owner/President - Sorce Solutions, Inc.
303/321-8952
jackie AT sorcesolutions DOT com
www.sorcesolutions.com