Senior Database Administrator

Akkodis is seeking a Senior Database Administrator contract job with a client in Rochester, NY. Must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Software Development, Information Systems, or Computer Science to be considered. Will be responsible for working on a project to upgrade Oracle 19c to Oracle 26ai. Will also maintain an accurate inventory of all database infrastructure.

Rate Range: $50/hr. to $58/hr. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Senior Database Administrator responsibilities include:

• Install, maintain, patch, and upgrade database software.
• Maintain development, test, QA and production database environments.
• Maintain Oracle Data Guard and other high availability and fault tolerant solutions.
• Monitor and manage database backups, logs, and journals and restore or recover data as required.
• Design, develop and maintain high availability and disaster recovery strategies for database environments.
• Monitor and maintain database security.
• Monitor databases to optimize performance and infrastructure compute resource consumption.
• Assist with the migration of data between disparate databases, integration activities, data replication, data modeling, data conversions, capacity planning issues, query tuning, and new application deployments.
• Perform SQL query analysis and tuning.
• Design and develop databases in conjunction with application teams.
• Provide advice to application programmers in the effective use of database languages; assist with troubleshooting and support miscellaneous other data management issues.
• Create procedures and maintain various database, application and system related documents and programs such as scripts, solution designs and run books.
• Participate in proof-of-concept initiatives as assigned.
• Maintain monitoring solutions including KPI tuning, capacity threshold tuning, alert management, run books, scheduled job success/failure/performance, query performance, etc.
• Perform and/or assist with disaster recovery tests.
• Provide 24-hour on-call support when scheduled.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Development, Information Systems, or Computer Science is required.
• Minimum Five years related experience.
• Must have experience in PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL
• Must have experience in Oracle Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle ASM, Oracle Grid, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Experience in Performance Analyzer, SQL Tuning Adviser, and writing scripts to assist with routine database tasks, such as patching, extracting data for reporting, etc.
• Must be willing to work on call after hours which averages one week per month

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at 585-490-8656 or gina.manioci@akkodis.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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