Senior Database Administrator
Merative
Join a team dedicated to supporting the crucial mission of improving health outcomes.
At Merative, you can apply your skills – and grow new ones – with colleagues who have deep expertise in health and technology. Merative provides data, analytics and software for the health industry. Our clients include providers, health plans, employers, life sciences companies and governments around the world. With industry-leading products and focused innovation, we help customers improve decision-making and performance so that together, we drive real progress in health. Learn more at merative.com
The successful candidate will leverage their technical knowledge across Oracle database and related technologies and best practices to support databases in Watson Health.The candidate will own the responsibility of design, availability and maintenance of databases that support various critical applications.
Key Responsibilities:
Administer, maintain, tune, and troubleshoot Oracle databases to provide high availability and reliability to the databases and applications running on them.
Administer databases running on RAC in Exadata environments.
Work with application teams, product teams and onshore DBA team to design, provision, maintain and tune Oracle databases.
Adopt and learn new cloud technologies for use in Watson Health solutions.
Automate Manual Tasks and documentation of work.
Primary Skills Required:
7 -10 years of relevant experience and in-depth knowledge of Oracle Database Architecture.
Experience in working with RAC databases.
Experience in working with multi-tenant databases.
Experience with performance tuning.
Experience with database backup, restoration, refresh using Recovery Manager (RMAN)
Experience with database, schema, table level refresh using datapump.
Experience with software Installation and Creation of 12c & 19c Databases on RAC and Non-RAC environments.
Experience with database upgrades.
Experience with cross-platform database migrations.
Experience in working with Exadata machines and databases running on them.
Experience working with ASM storage.
Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c.
Experience in applying database, grid patches as per the organization policies.
Experience with design, set up and maintenance of data guard environments.
Experience in writing shell scripts will be an added advantage.
Experience working with Postgres Databases. Installation, upgrades, tuning and troubleshooting expertise is highly required.
Experience with OCI Cloud Implementation and Management
Good knowledge of ITIL processes.
Preferred Skills:
DB2 administration
Oracle Apps administration
MySQL administration
Oracle ZFS Storage
Experience with databases on Azure
Experience with GitHub
Experience with Service Now
Knowledge of general cloud concepts
Knowledge of Linux Operating system
Knowledge of networking concepts
Knowledge of Python programming language
Experience:
7 -10 years in Oracle database administration.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's/Master’s degree in computer science, system analysis, or equivalent experience.
It is the policy of Merative to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, HIV status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Merative will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.