Summary:

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking for a long term opportunity, growth, flexible work environment with decent salary and great benefits. In this capacity, the professional will:

• Support the organization in developing, operating and managing large and sophisticated enterprise database environments. 
• Lead a team of database administrators to ensure integrity, performance and reliability of all enterprise database systems. 
• Coordinate activities performed by the team, track and report on team activities, define and document team processes, troubleshoot escalated issues and will be hands-on in operational DBA tasks which involves database monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, installation, maintenance, and disaster recovery. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reporting to management on the Oracle DBA team activities.
• Defining, documenting and maintaining Oracle DBA team processes.
• Responsible for upgrades, performance monitoring, installations, managing replications, diagnosing system problems, disaster recovery testing and maintaining user accessibility.
• Resolving complex issues involving: database performance, database capacity, resiliency, stability, replication, and other key aspects of distributed database technology.
• Providing Oracle 10g/11g/12c database administration, database security and production support, primarily in a UNIX environment
• Managing physical database design and implementation, database security implementation and monitoring.
• Provides hands on technical expertise, provides senior level technical guidance to staff, project leaders and other teams as necessary.
• Researching and recommending solutions that best meet business needs and enterprise operational requirements
• Work closely with multiple application development team(s) to implement and support data-oriented development efforts.

Required Skills:

• Extensive experience in database administration with at least 5 years in a senior/lead/management role.
• 5+ years of direct DBA experience working with Oracle Enterprise
• 3+ years of direct IT experience supporting database environments on a UNIX platform
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Management Information Systems, Computer Sciences, Information Technology or other Information Technology related major.
• Must have prior experience successfully leading or managing a team of technical IT resources with demonstrated progression of increased scope and complexity.
• The ability to successfully manage and deliver multiple projects/tasks simultaneously.

Desired Skills:

• Master’s degree in a related field, such as Computer Science, Data Processing, Information Systems or equivalent experience 
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) desirable.
• Experience with features such as Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), ASM and Active Data Guard.
• Customer focused, business driven, and strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong networks.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment to encourage collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Job Location:         Memphis, TN
• Job Type:                Full-Time
  
• Security Clearance: Clearable to Public Trust
  
• Pay Rate:                Up to $120K / year (Depends on Experience)