Database Administrator - Only Local to Michigan
Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
Contract
4 days ago
Key skills
Oracle
About this role
Required Qualifications:
Job Responsibilities:
- Evaluate impacts of change and new technology, recommend solutions to persistent problems, and serve as Agency Services liaison to external consultants.
- Follow and enforce database standards, policies & procedures. Research and draft guidelines within the boundaries of current policies and standards.
- Monitor space allocation across databases, perform adjustments in test and development environments as necessary and as prescribed by predefined standards/guidelines.
- Calculate disk space requirements for existing and/or new installations of existing business needs
- Modify DBMS parameters based on capacity changes.
- Configure and execute database integrity checks.
- Monitor for database integrity checks
- Install database base management software for development and test environments.
- Install database patches and service packs for development and test environments.
- Implement the strategy to release unused space or repair fragmentation in test and development environments.
- Execute (run) scripts provided by Systems Analysts or Database Architect/Designer for creating and modifying database objects (tables, views, constraints, indexes, etc.)
- Monitor database jobs and scheduled processes in development, test and production environments. Participate in troubleshooting.
- Monitor database environments (using alert logs, trace files, alert mechanisms, and other tools) for issues and problems with database functionality, connectivity, or downtime.
- Follow standards and guidelines for database space allocation based on best practices and implementation considerations based on business requirements.
- 15+ years of Database administration specifically on Oracle 18c and upwards
- 5+ years of experience creating, updating and maintaining systems documentation
- Experience with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) database solutions
- Experience supporting database replication and backup environments
- Experience supporting clustered database environments
- Experience monitoring production database environments and troubleshooting outages