Title: Senior Oracle Database Administrator, Sr. DBA
Location: Emeryville, CA

The Senior Database Administrator is a member of a team collaborating on the backend design and implementation of Gracenote database services including traditional OLAP, DW and big-data solutions.
The Senior DBA role requires the blending of administrating and development activities with both SQL and No-SQL based systems. A willingness to experiment with new database technologies is a must. The candidate will work with other team members in maintenance of development and production systems, development of data models and implementation of those models in everything from application databases to production data warehouses.
Candidate needs to have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be a team player, interoperating with multiple teams across global time zones. The candidate may be on call 24/7 during scheduled periods to support escalated issues.
Responsibilities:
Partner with application developers in data modeling based on business requirements
Participate and recommend new strategies for installation, upgrade, configuration, and patching of new and existing RDBMS infrastructure, from oracle 11g to 12c
Implement and tune queries used by other members of the development team
Work with QA teams in testing and verification of solutions
Participate in planning and design of the database architecture for large scale, production quality services
Work in pre-production environments to come with strategies and architectures for high availability, monitoring, database security, backup and recovery for large scale databases
Day to day management activities of production databases for online system operations: monitoring, troubleshooting, backup, restore, change management, and storage management
Help set database and data warehouse technical direction and drive changes to improve operations, performance and scalability
Desired Skills and Experience
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent is preferred
At least eight years’ experience in database administration and development work
Experience developing and maintaining scalable and complex distributed systems using DataGuard, Oracle RAC, GoldenGate
Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g, configuring and monitoring.
Storage planning and management, using ASM on NetApps appliances
Proficiency with Oracle RMAN for backup and recovery for vey large databases (up to 200TB)
Tuning and Performance experience using tools like AWR, ASH, and ADDN reports
Knowledge and experience with Unix. Linux, and/or Solaris is required
No-SQL database including document and key-value store databases including Mongo, MapR and WS based platforms
Scripting language skills: Perl, PL/SQL, is a strong plus
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 experience is a big plus



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