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Position Title: Sr. Database Administrator
Position Location: Alexandria, Virginia
Reports to: Director, Infrastructure
Supervisory Responsibility: none
Term: (permanent, fixed term contract, temporary) Permanent
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Date Prepared: 12.8.09
About Agentrics
Agentrics was founded by the world’s largest, most successful retailers to provide solutions for more effective sourcing and supply chain collaborations. Over the years, we expanded our services to support retailer growth initiatives in private label product development, data sharing, performance analytics, food safety and business intelligence. Today, Agentrics is a trusted partner to more than half of the world’s top 25 retailers and hundreds of other merchants and trading partners.
Agentrics has one of the industry’s most active customer communities, as we facilitate user- and executive-level interactions so customers can share innovative practices, address global issues and influence industry standards. More information is available at www.agentrics.com.
Position Summary
The primary role of this position will be to design, maintain, and support both production and development databases in a 24x7 environment. The DBA is responsible for the overall health, availability, recoverability and performance of these databases. The DBA will work very closely with the DataArchitect, ETL and Application development team.
Responsibilities:
· Participate in 24x7 operational on-call rotation scheme for production support
· Provide operational support to maintain production databases (e.g. Backup/Recovery,tuning,etc)
· Provide development and design support of Oracle databases to dev teams involved in application development, testing and implementation.
· Prepare status reports to accurately communicate progress; provide early notification of problems that could affect schedules, or the integrity or availability of data.
Travel Requirements:
1-5% (as needed to remote locations, would be rare if ever)
Skills and Expertise:
Essential:
· Experience handling large RDBMS
· Oracle DBA experience including:
o Backup and recovery utilizing RMAN
o Data Guard configuration, Replication, Streams and AQs
o Advanced SQL optimization and Database Tuning
o Upgrade and migrate databases across various versions and platforms
o Grid Console, DB console setup and administration
· Experience with a data modeling tools
· Knowledge of ETL and reporting tools (e.g. Microstrategy, Pentaho, etc)
· Excellent programming and scripting skills (PL/SQL, Shell, Perl)
· Knowledge of Java platforms and middleware (e.g. JDBC,Jboss,Weblogic,Toplink,etc)
· Experience using Microsoft SQL Server (Backup/Restore/etc)
· Excellent oral and written communications skills
· Strong conceptual and analytic skills
Education and Experience:
Essential:
· 5+ years experience in managing relational database systems with at least 4 years supporting Oracle platforms
· 3+ years experience with Solaris & Linux Operating systems
Accommodations:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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