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Database Management Support

Education: BS Minimum

Location: Baltimore

Hours: Personnel shall work an eight-hour day (normal business hours, but actual work hours to be changed), Monday through Friday

Personnel may be required to work past this time, on evenings, overnight, weekends, or Holidays as the work dictates.

Salary: 41 to $51/Hour

Minimum Requirement

The candidate shall:

·               Have at least 5 years of practical experience as a database management resource.

·               Have a minimum of 5 years managing Oracle databases including, oracle databases on windows and Linux platform with Oracle 10g and 11g with, installation, configuration, deploying, migrating, backup and recovery, including oracle architectures  replication/Streams; Oracle connection manger installation and configuration; experience with PL/SQL programming using SQL developer, Toad; experience in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 database management; experience in working in virtualization environment with Oracle and VMware infrastructure.

·               Possess five (5) years of expertise in at least one the following types of systems:

o      Financial Management Systems

o      Management Reporting

o      Document Management

o      Business Process/Workflow Automation

o      Human Resource Systems

o      Law Enforcement Systems

Duties and Responsibilities of the Database Support Candidate

The work to be accomplished shall include but not limited to the following subtasks:

a.       Propose and implement database management policies, procedures and standards.

b.      Provide database monitoring and statistical reports using Oracle Enterprise manager Grid control 11g. Monitor alerts, schedule daily, weekly, and monthly backups.

c.       Coordinate the installation and implementation of database management system software and related software tools with vendors, other data processing staff and systems users.

d.      Maintain security and integrity of data access policies, standards, and method, by establishing recovery plans to minimize data losses and system downtime and by performing back up routines for the database management system software and for the stored data.

e.       Monitor database performance and make modifications and adjustments to database architecture, storage methods and management system software to fine tune the database.

f.       Monitor database capacity and allocate space according to overall needs of systems users, available data storage and database management system requirements.

g.       Maintain and hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly test backup and recovery process for Disaster Recovery readiness using Oracle RMAN, data pump and cold & hot backups.

h.      Provide knowledge of using MAXIID TWIC card reader devices, configuration and develop interface program between MAXID handheld device and existing Oracle database systems.

i.        Provide hands on working experience in Oracle streams configuration, implementation and conflict resolutions for data replication.

j.        Monitor streams capture, propagation and apply jobs and fix the errors encountered if any.

k.      Perform periodic database refreshes, cloning from Production to Development and Test environments.

l.        Provide database support during full development cycle of application from design to testing and implementation, on-call production, test and development support.

m.    Proactively research the latest database technologies and perform lab tests as needed/requested, document and make recommendations by performing return on investment analysis for higher management. 

n.      Create new Oracle databases using DBCA, as per the standards, and upgrade existing 10g databases to 11g; apply the latest Oracle Security patches.

o.      Upgrade existing Oracle 10g application to 11g application server with Oracle web logic server.

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