RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage Database Team located in multiple locations
• Handle projects driven by both Offshore & Onshore
• Distribute Work and project tasks
• Track projects and daily tasks
• Manage patch deployments and upgrades following best practices and provide capacity planning expertise
• Provide administration of development database environments including UAT, Processing, Development and QA based Oracle RAC database
• Perform security implementation in both OS and Database level of production servers ensuring several standard policies and compliances (HIPAA, SOX, PHI)
• Support the business to provide logistic support to Analytics, Production Engineers, Project Managers and Developers
• Working with a distributed team of IT and DBA resources to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that Vertica database platforms are highly available, optimally configured and efficiently managed
• Maintain Production servers and minimize downtime and tuning performance of database instances
• Plan for System change and implement
• Provide support to Business during Release process.
• Perform short- and long-term system/database planning and analysis including capacity planning, storage performance, system performance and database performance
• Daily use of SQL, PL/SQL,T-SQL performance tuning
• software installation, configuration, upgrade and maintenance activities
• High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree in CS, IT, software or computer engineering, CIS, or any related field of study
• 15 + years of experience AS DATABASE Administrator in Oracle and MS SQL

MUST HAVE SKILLS

• Implementing and maintaining large scale OLTP and OLAP systems in mission critical environments
• Information security standards including database system hardening, identity management and database access controls
• Should have knowledge of MS SQL & Oracle
• Should have knowledge of Linux and Windows OS.
• Should have experience in SQL  
• Knowledge of Shell, Perl, bash Scripting language
• Administer custom engineered Oracle ExaDATA based Oracle Database software technologies
• Working knowledge of MS SQL Cluster

PREFERABLE SKILLS

• Knowledge of and demonstrable capability in scripting, experience in writing Python/PowerShell or similar scripts
• Experience with Atlassian suite of tools (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Crucible, ITIL)
• Other databases technologies like Vertica.
• Knowledge of Cloud  

SOFT SKILLS

• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Persuasive in both written and verbal communication
• US Healthcare experience would be added value