Database Administrator (DBA) - New York, NY - Georgia IT Inc.
New York, NY
About the Job
Job Title : Database Administrator (DBA)
Location : New York, NY
Position Type : Contract
Rate : DOE (W2/1099)
US Citizen, Green Card and GC EAD Preferred
Skills
College degree in computer science or a related discipline, or an equivalent level of technical knowledge required.
9+ years of experience in administering databases on Unix based platforms, with at least 3 years of experience in supporting 10 TB+ data warehouses (applicable for data warehousing) or work experience in environments getting over a billion rows of data daily and on data platforms such as Netezza, Greenplum, Oracle Exadata or Hadoop ecosystem is strongly preferred. In lieu of the college degree, a total of 15 years of experience is required.
Any experience with Hadoop ecosystem and technologies such as Impala, hdfs, Kafka, Spark is required.
6+ years' experience in Oracle RDBMS with 3 years' experience in using RAC is required. 3+ years of experience working directly on Oracle RAC and Data Guard preferably on Exadata.
Solid knowledge of Linux / UNIX operating systems and shell programming is required
Understanding of system architecture and system administration tasks is a plus.
3+ years production experience in programming languages such as Python, Scala, Java, C/C++ is preferred
1+ years of experience working directly on PostgreSQL or Cassandra databases will be a plus
Experience with web logic, GRC, RMB applications will be a plus.
Effective communication skills with ability to maintain good relations with users, developers, operations and information security teams.
The person must have the ability to work in a fast-paced business environment. The person must have the aptitude to work with application and business data and must have the mind-set, ability to learn/support multiple data platform technologies.
Key database administration responsibilities
o Installing & upgrading database software and resolving database software problems.
o Performing evaluations of potential tools & utilities.
o Automating database tasks via scripting or through the use of tools.
o Updating, migrating, and refreshing database environments.
o Configuring monitoring and proactively reviewing statistics for errors, capacity and performance issues.
o Tuning and troubleshooting software & database performance issues.
Ensuring database recoverability within the constraints of any application, project and other
Requirements
Oversight for creation, maintenance, and testing of database infrastructure processes and technologies deployed in the organization.
Take a lead role as appropriate in procedural development for both disaster recovery and operational Readiness
Prior experience or exposure to application design/data modeling is highly desired
Location : New York, NY
Position Type : Contract
Rate : DOE (W2/1099)
US Citizen, Green Card and GC EAD Preferred
Skills
College degree in computer science or a related discipline, or an equivalent level of technical knowledge required.
9+ years of experience in administering databases on Unix based platforms, with at least 3 years of experience in supporting 10 TB+ data warehouses (applicable for data warehousing) or work experience in environments getting over a billion rows of data daily and on data platforms such as Netezza, Greenplum, Oracle Exadata or Hadoop ecosystem is strongly preferred. In lieu of the college degree, a total of 15 years of experience is required.
Any experience with Hadoop ecosystem and technologies such as Impala, hdfs, Kafka, Spark is required.
6+ years' experience in Oracle RDBMS with 3 years' experience in using RAC is required. 3+ years of experience working directly on Oracle RAC and Data Guard preferably on Exadata.
Solid knowledge of Linux / UNIX operating systems and shell programming is required
Understanding of system architecture and system administration tasks is a plus.
3+ years production experience in programming languages such as Python, Scala, Java, C/C++ is preferred
1+ years of experience working directly on PostgreSQL or Cassandra databases will be a plus
Experience with web logic, GRC, RMB applications will be a plus.
Effective communication skills with ability to maintain good relations with users, developers, operations and information security teams.
The person must have the ability to work in a fast-paced business environment. The person must have the aptitude to work with application and business data and must have the mind-set, ability to learn/support multiple data platform technologies.
Key database administration responsibilities
o Installing & upgrading database software and resolving database software problems.
o Performing evaluations of potential tools & utilities.
o Automating database tasks via scripting or through the use of tools.
o Updating, migrating, and refreshing database environments.
o Configuring monitoring and proactively reviewing statistics for errors, capacity and performance issues.
o Tuning and troubleshooting software & database performance issues.
Ensuring database recoverability within the constraints of any application, project and other
Requirements
Oversight for creation, maintenance, and testing of database infrastructure processes and technologies deployed in the organization.
Take a lead role as appropriate in procedural development for both disaster recovery and operational Readiness
Prior experience or exposure to application design/data modeling is highly desired
Source : Georgia IT Inc.
