Oracle Database Administrator

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REPORTS TO: Manager, Network & Infrastructure

SUPERVISES: None

AUTHORITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement and administer Oracle environment and ensure operational integrity.
• Establish performance benchmarks, monitor and analyze system bottlenecks and propose solutions to eliminate them.
• Participate in continuity of programs (COOP) and disaster recovery exercises and perform database backup, restoration, and recovery.
• Designs, develops and integrates highly complex database systems.
• Creates, documents and implements standards and/or complex modeling to monitor and enhance the capacity and performance of the database.
• Participates in project meeting(s) for highly complex project definition, needs assessment and design review.
• Remains abreast of and analyzes new and emerging technologies and tools for applicability to the field.
• Plan, design, and implement database replication.
• Be familiar with Oracle standard management tools and licensing.
• Provides work guidance to less experienced personnel.

QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Four years of directly related professional IT work experience may substitute the degree requirement.

• Five (5) years of experience with Oracle database design, Structure Query Language (SQL), Procedural Language for SQL (PL/SQL) and database query performance tuning.
• Oracle certification (OCA) preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including experience writing procedures for a complex IT/engineering/technical environment, documenting complex technical solutions, and delivering technical presentations to diverse audiences.
• Experience dealing with company- and personal-specific sensitive information.
• Experience working collaboratively with business users and senior-level management users to determine information needs and effective delivery methods.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem solving skills, and the ability to balance multiple tasks with high attention to details.
• Superior teamwork and interpersonal skills and the ability to work both in a team environment and independently.

TOOLS: Oracle standard management tools

DIRECTION EXERCISED: None

DISCRETION EXERCISED: None

LIASES WITH: Austal Leadership, IT Department

ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:

• Candidates must meet the following employment eligibility guidelines to be eligible for employment with Austal USA:
• 18 years or older at time of application
• Able to provide proof of US Person status (permanent resident or citizen)
• No felony convictions of theft/deception or violent crimes within seven years from disposition date
• No felony convictions of drug crimes within three years from disposition date
• Willing to submit to a drug screen
• Willing to submit to a background check

Job Type: Full-time