SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR (SME)

Position Description.
This role is hybrid and requires you to be in our downtown Toronto 2-3 times per week - subject to change at any time.
Your future duties and responsibilities.
• Seeking a talented Senior Oracle DBA.
The ideal candidate must have 7+ years of Oracle DBA and some PL/SQL experience along with good communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills.
• Responsible for ensuring maximum up-time with maximum throughput to meet established service-level agreements (SLAs), ensuring backup integrity, and providing support to development and application support groups as needed.
• Installation, upgrades, daily support, performance tuning (Oracle 12c, 19C), rman backup/recovery/duplication, monitoring primary+standby databases • Monitor database and server performance and identify current and future potential bottle-necks • You will assist in the development of processes, procedures, and jobs to monitor and/or automate tasks required to maintain databases.
Your duties will also include gathering and communicating database performance metrics for internal and external audiences.
• Minimum of 7 years of work experience as a DBA in a team setting, providing 24/7 support to mission-critical applications and databases -Korn shell scripting essential (for DBA-related monitoring) • Experience supporting Oracle, Postgress and Mongo DB in a production environment • Experience/ Working Knowledge of Oracle Exadata and Exadata Resource Management (IORM) • Experience/Working Knowledge about Oracle Encryption Offerings (at Rest, in Transit, Vault Server) • Extensive performance Tuning using OEM/AWR/ADDM/ASHRPT • Backup and recovery and RMAN (Must Have) • Oracle ASM, Grid Infrastructure, RAC (preferred skills) • Upgrades and Patches • Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM 13c) • Strong familiarity with Unix/Linux command line interface • Significant experience with shell scripting on Unix/Linux • Tune database code (packages, procedures, functions, triggers, etc) for the application as required • Provide support to the customers/developers to resolve their technical problems with the data and/or database Good to Have – • Knowledge of 18c,19c & Oracle Cloud • Familiarity with ZFS #LI-GS Required qualifications to be successful in this role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or closely related • Oracle certified Professional Oracle 10 or 11 OCP (preferred) • Extensive experience in database administration, and performance tuning for the following products.
Oracle, Postgress, MongoDB • Oracle certified Professional Oracle 10 or 11 OCP (preferred) Soft Skills.
• Good communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills.
• Able to professionally represent the DBA activities of our product within our organization.
• Capable of formulating policies and procedures for DBA activities.
• Continuously look to improve data management processes.
• Work with minimal supervision.
Other Requirements (e.
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travel, shift work, on-call duty, overtime).
Evening and weekend work is occasionally needed to support the client environments.
Skills.
Database Administration Linux Oracle Exadata Unix What you can expect from us.
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