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Veterans Staffing

Database Administrator 3-IT

Veterans Staffing, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50319

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Oracle Database Administration

Work with a world class team to provide enterprise-wide Oracle Database Administration support for production systems and provide DBA services to application development teams, including database design, database generation, coding, and database production support. Provide DBA support with a high degree of customer service, technical expertise, and timeliness. Provide accurate and creative solutions to user problems of moderate nature to ensure user productivity. The position requires working with development and support teams, supporting the full life cycle of MySQL databases from implementation, database management and maintenance, troubleshooting, process improvements, and automation to ensure the database infrastructure meets the reliability, scalability, and SLA requirements. This position also requires coaching and mentoring other team members regarding the database administration, migration and support activities. Candidate should have Cloud experience. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experience is a plus. Oracle OCI Autonomous Database (ADB) experience would be a strong plus. Candidate should be open to oncall rotation and be able to work on weekends and after hours as needed. Candidate must be able to work with minimal oversight and be a self starter. Responsibilities include providing production database administration support. This includes installing and configuring the MySQL enterprise databases, migrating the data from other RDBMS to MySQL, database management, routine maintenance, proactive monitoring and corrective actions, reactive troubleshooting and remediation, technical currency - version and patch maintenance, security - password and encryption, defining and implementing standards and best practices, installing and maintaining replication, process improvement ideas and implementation, automating for self healing and reducing manual tasks, and creating documentation. Other responsibilities include performance and tuning of databases, creating documentation, monitor and optimize performance of the database, plan for backup and recovery of the database, and allocate system storage and plan future storage needs. The database administrator will work on both Linux and Windows on-premises and OCI cloud based MySQL databases. The candidate should be able to create database-related scripts and programs, research, evaluate, test, and recommend new or improved MySQL and database tools. The database administrator will be part of oncall rotation, and should be able to work after hours and weekends on an as need basis. The database administrator will also coach and mentor other team members to upskill them on the tools and tasks of the MySQL database administration.