Oracle Database Administrator jobs in Minnesota

• Automates the creation and maintenance of databases for all environments.
• Provides primary DB support for implementing, upgrading, and maintaining the DBMS (Oracle) environments.
• Develops new technologies and techniques to optimize database stability, resilience, and security.
• Monitors and resolve application connectivity and DB interface issues; proactively working with other support teams to ensure that application problems do not adversely affect production operations.
• Collaborates with application developers and vendors to report and resolve problems.
• Implements and tests database backup and recovery technology / procedures for database environments.
• Mentors and educates Client technical staff, DB users and vendors in techniques to optimize query performance.
• Ensures compliance of all DB security standards in collaboration with IS&T Security Management.
• Debugs problematic database issues, provide analysis for future enhancements and development; proactively maintaining effective and efficient database structures and system processing.
• Forecasts and analyzes future capacity needs and develops tools and utilities to mitigate future capacity issues.
  

• 4-year college degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, or related field OR 3 years IS&T related experience
• Self-learner with strong desire to solve hard problems
• 2 years experience with DevOps or database administration
• 2 years experience SQL and PL/SQL or T-SQL programming
• 2 years experience with Unix shell, Perl, or OS scripting language
• 2 years experience with performance tuning
• Strong knowledge of operating systems (i.e., Windows, Linux)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with database backup and recovery
• Available to work outside normal business hours, including weekends and be on-call (7 days x 24 hours)
• Effectively use Microsoft tools, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint
  

• Hands on experience with DevOps and Automation (i.e., Ansible, Jenkins, Git).
• Hands on experience with Openshift
• Hands on experience with Liquibase
• Hands on experience provisioning infrastructure using Terraform
• Hands on experience with Azure Public Cloud
• Experience working in an agile/scrum team.
• Administration of Oracle Exadata appliance.
• Oracle Certified Professional - OCP DBA Professional
• Experience with MySQL and Microsoft SQL Databases

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