Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Database Administrator in New York, NY

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
One of SGA's major financial clients is seeking a for a contract position in New York, NY. This individual will share responsibility for RDBMS support and infrastructure projects. This position involves the coordination of testing and deployment of such changes in the UAT, Production, and DR environments. The individual will be responsible for performance tuning of the server and of queries, physical design and support of AD implementations. Additionally, the individual will be expected to work weekends and be on call as required. Ideal candidate has excellent problem solving skills, interested in working within a team structure, positive attitude, and thrives in a dynamic business / technical environment that values change. The person must be able to design, build and maintain Sybase and Oracle databases. College degree in a technical discipline or equivalent work experiences a must.
Essential Skills:

Clear Communication skills
Significant experience in Sybase/Oracle

Physical design
Logical design
Performance and Tuning Experience
Query Writing/Tuning
Sybase Repserver Experience
Perl and/or OO Perl
Strong solaris/linux skills
MS SQL Server a plus
System Administration skills on solaris/linux a plus
Sybase DCO experience a plus
Oracle OLAP experience a plus
A strong understand of Oracle or Sybase internals
Understand of various storage technologies ( SAN/NAS/VVM/HP Storage Array)
Primary activities will include:

Physical Database design
Logical database design
Performance Monitoring of Oracle/Sybase system
Recommend and Implement improvements to various aspects of CIO s production environment
Provide and support production, UAT and development environments for CIO, ensuring that applications meet high availability deployment patterns.
Ensure that CIO's production environment is available during all critical processing time periods.
Ensure that CIO's production environment is fully redundant and fault tolerant and meets the Firm's requirements for Disaster Recovery.
Ensure that CIO's production, UAT and development environments are in compliance with the Firm's Information Risk Management policies.
Identify and take advantage of opportunities to make the environment more efficient or productive

(SYBASE over 2.0 year(s) ) AND (DBA over 2.0 year(s) OR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR over 2.0 year(s) ) AND(LINUX over 1.0 year(s) ) AND (ORACLE over 1.0 year(s) )
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