Job Description :
Title: Database Administrator
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Duration: 12+ Months
Interview: Phone and Skype
Start date: Immediate
Must have SQL AND Oracle experience
Job Description: Roles and Responsibilities:
Monitor and tune database management systems.
Manage the database structure, its physical and logical descriptions, standards and tools, security and reorganization and backup/recovery procedures.
Analyze database performance and recommend enhancements as appropriate.
Analyze Database security, including security hardening.
Monitor database growth and provide input to overall system capacity planning.
Proactively review SQL code to ensure efficient database access.
Monitor data usage to ensure correct use by applications and to minimize redundancy.
Proactively provide database related support for application development team.
Assist in the evaluation of application requirements as it relates to the database environment.
Participate in 24 X 7 on call rotation and periodic off hours support.
Implements and maintains the necessary controls and procedures to cost-effectively protect information systems assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure, or destruction. Provides guidance and direction for the protection of information systems assets to other areas as needed.
Position Requirements:
Good written and oral communication skills.
Good organizational skills.
Good analytical skills.
Good customer service skills.
Experience in highly virtualized database environments Self-motivated and directed.
Good technical documentation skills.
Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Ability to communicate technical information in a business friendly manner.
Experience in Microsoft Server environment.
Ability to work independently.
Experience in SQL Server
Experience with Oracle DBMS
Knowledgeable in Systems Development Life Cycle.
Excellent leadership skills
Excellent project management skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills Excellent presentation skills Excellent organizational skills Strategic, conceptual and analytical thinking and decision making skills Negotiating skills within a context of political sensitivity and conflicting interests Extensive knowledge of project management methodology Ability to communicate highly technical information in a manner that the business friendly manner