Oracle DBA

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.
With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.
Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy
Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

Oracle DBA

- On behalf on our client in the Oil and Gas sector, Procom Services is looking for one Oracle DBA for a long term contract in Houston TX.

Oracle DBA Job Details

• Database Administration for Oracle 10g, 11g or 12c.
• Monitor and manage database and file system backups, logging and archiving, database users and security, database storage, and database performance.
• Perform performance tuning; implement performance improvements; investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production database incidents.
• Support multiple Oracle and SQL application systems databases in installation, maintenance, upgrades, and day-to-day administration capacities.
• Identify, monitor, recommend and implement changes to database applications that insure a satisfactory end-user response time and reliability in database connectivity.
• Provide expertise and recommendations for physical database design, systems architecture, testing, performance tuning, and implementation, including table and server operating system maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Prepare and/or review database activity, progress and performance reports; keep accurate documentation.
• Perform SQL monitoring, debugging and tuning including query performance. Provide recommendations for enhancements and implement configuration changes.
• Optimize the database environment with respect to data access methods, data integrity, system performance and system availability.
• Participate in the evaluation, installation, support and on-going system administration and maintenance of monitoring tools and technologies.
• Design, implement, and maintain complex and highly available databases (production and non-production), translate logical data models into physical designs.
• Ensure detailed physical design of data structures and databases comply with enterprise standards, guidelines, procedures, and processes and are successfully implemented.
• Improve database recover-ability time by creating, maintaining and updating recovery and restore processes.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning and testing.
• Provide after-hours enterprise database and general system on-call support.
• Designs and deploys best practices for new technologies and implementations as well as knowledge transfer and mentoring to other team members.

Oracle DBA Mandatory Skills

• Experience with multiple Oracle and SQL application systems databases in installation, maintenance, upgrades, and day-to-day administration capacities.
• BS Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline and/or equivalent work experience required.
• Minimum of 5 years of Oracle DBA experience with Oracle 10g, 11g, or 12c.

Oracle DBA Nice to Have Skills

Oracle database certifications/experience preferred

Oracle DBA Start Date

January 2016

Oracle DBA Assignment Length

12 month + contract

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