Location: Fort Washington, Pa (near Philadelphia)
Length: 12+ months
MUST FACE TO FACE
Responsibilities
· Experience with data management and data processing flowcharting techniques
· Research and provide architectural solutions for contemporary problems around Database design.
· Must be prepared to design a multi data center, multi platform, RDBMS from the ground up.
· Prepare and maintain up to date documentation detailing configuration of deployed solutions.
· Research and provide architectural solutions for contemporary problems around DB features, security, connectivity.
· Mentor junior DBAs as they implement your designs.
· Provide guidance on escalated operational issues involving RDBMS infrastructure.
· Liaison with RDBMS software vendors throughout for purchasing, operation and support processes
Qualifications
· BS Degree OR the equivalent combination of education, technical training, and work experience.
· Minimum 10 years experience supporting RDBMS in an enterprise environment.
· Experience in designing complex, highly available RDBMS systems.
· Expertise with large scale MS SQL, Oracle systems.
· Expertise with communications protocols such as SQLNET, JDBC, ODBC.
· Expertise with automated failover and cluster based systems
· Experience with Disaster Recovery planning and execution
· Expertise with stored procedures, views, subqueries, data modeling.
· Solid knowledge about TCP/IP, IP routing, VPN, Firewall, Security, data center design.
· Solid understanding of Storage and Operating Systems.
· Experience running large database systems (> 20TB) on SAN and NAS systems.
Desired Traits
· Familiarity with MySQL or Postgres or NoSQL systems
· Familiarity with NetApp storage
· Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups.
· Flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities. The ability to socialize ideas, make recommendations and gather team consensus to move forward.
· Must be able to effectively communicate both orally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels in the organization; develop procedural documentation; develop and conduct effective presentations; and effectively demonstrate products and solutions.
· Ability to connect new technology initiatives to cost savings and ROI calculations.
· Familiar with technical project management.