Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Founded 32 years ago, Allied Consultants is an Austin-based firm and premier provider of technical and business staffing solutions for the State of Texas.

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Oracle Database Administrator to be a key resource on a technical services team for our client, the Texas Health and Human Service Commission (HHSC).

Location of job : Remote. Candidates must reside within Texas.

Responsibilities

The client requires the services of a Database Administrator who meets the general qualification of Database Administrator 3.

The critical duties will be advanced performance tuning on complex processes on multi-terabyte databases with heavy transaction volumes.

Initial duties include installing Oracle Database 19c, Oracle RAC, and Golden Gate to establish a new database tier and capacity planning for the ERP upgrade project.

Core duties include the standard administration and support responsibilities of backup, recovery, monitoring, troubleshooting, tuning, and assisting the upgrade project team as needs arise.

This position requires work outside of standard business hours depending on the project activities and system maintenance schedule to minimize the impact on the project team's productivity.

Must demonstrate and excel in communicating and working with a diverse team with collaboration tools competently in a remote work environment.

Also, the candidate must be able to estimate work, set deadlines, and prioritize work to align with the project schedule.

Enters codes to create production data base. Selects and enters codes of utility program to monitor database performance, such as distribution of records and amount of available memory.

Directs programmers and analysts to make changes to data base management system. Reviews and corrects programs. Answers user questions.

Confers with coworkers to determine impact of data base changes on other systems and staff cost for making changes to data base.

Modifies data base programs to increase processing performance, referred to as performance tuning. Workers typically specialize in one or more types of data base management systems.

Providing assistance in the planning, development, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated database systems, and ensuring that the conceptual and design phases of new applications are consistent with the structural parameters within the database environment.

Evaluates users' requests for new data elements and systems, incorporates them into the existing shared data environment, and provides technical assistance.

Coordinates the use of data to ensure data integrity and control redundancy, loads databases, and reorganizes as needed.

Performs data modeling and prototyping. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models.

Performs security recovery procedures. Determines and implements database search strategies and storage requirements. Maintains data dictionary ensuring uniformity of definitions and sets standards for use of data dictionary.

Monitors database performance and recommends efficiency improvements. Creates test database environment for applications section, including the creation of necessary libraries and procedures.

Executes the procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures within established procedures.

Assists with determining, implementing, and enhancing standards on database security and with monitoring agency disaster recovery procedures and systems.

Assists with the installation of database software and with analyzing, designing, and implementing databases. Assists in benchmarking and threshold testing of databases and with establishing and controlling necessary database security.

Assists in the selection of database management software. Experience in computer systems analysis or computer programming work.

• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of computer programming and systems design; of computer operations, systems, and procedures;
• of project control and cost estimating techniques; of computer programming languages; of data processing flowcharting techniques;

of database structures and theories; and of current database technologies. Has working knowledge of EIR Accessibility standards and assistive technologies.

Ensures that user interfaces for database administration and inputting, viewing, outputting data (via reports) are compliant with accessibility standards.

Provides support to users in obtaining data / information when EIR Accessibility issues arise.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements :

• 8 years of Oracle Database 12c or higher
• 8 years of Oracle RAC
• 8 years of Golden Gate
• 8 years advanced SQL
• 8 years of shell scripting
• 8 years supporting multi-terabyte database
• 8 years advanced performance tuning
• 8 years at least 4 years experience with Microsoft O365 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• 8 years or at least 2 years experience with MS Team and Channel communication with a large team

Preferred :

4 years experience working with a public sector organization (Federal, State, or Local Government)

2 years experience with SharePoint

1 year experience with Jira

1 year experience working with the Scrum framework

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 32 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas.

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Oracle Database Administrator to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.

Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law.

Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check

Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.