Senior Oracle DBA & Banner 9 Expert

University System of Georgia; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced database administrator role with responsibility for Oracle RDBMS, Banner 9, and enterprise systems at the University System of Georgia. Will administer multiple RDBMS environments, support administrative or academic services, and guide teams on production issues in a Unix/Windows environment.

Requires experience with Ellucian Banner 9, WebLogic/Tomcat, ESM, and a strong background in Oracle tuning and disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and at least eight (8) years related IT experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least three years of Information Technology experience working with the installation and maintenance of server based RDBMS software, in a multi-tiered Unix or Windows operating environment.
• Must be able to work within deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work independently as well as in a cross-functional team environment
• Occasional travel.
• Able to work on a schedule that includes nights, weekends or holidays when required for upgrades or resolution of production availability issues.

Responsibilities

• Administers multiple Oracle RDBMS and application server environments on multiple operating systems to support the needs of integrated administrative or academic services.
• Ellucian Banner 9 experience.
• Setup and configuration of Identify Providers
• Proficiency in Oracle 19c or higher RDBMS and Weblogic/Tomcat or higher is required.
• Competence in Banner Student Information System and associated integrated systems.
• Experience with Ellucian Solutions Manager (ESM), JAVA, Jenkins, and Redhat 7.x or higher.
• Maintain releases of Banner 9 applications, troubleshoot and fix errors in existing applications systems.
• Serves on virtual teams, guided by service managers or service directors, as needed to provide database, architectural and technical applications support for the delivery, stability and maintenance of integrated administrative or academic services.
• Serves as service area technical lead for providing production technical support for administrative or academic services to University System campuses technical staff.
• Serves as service area technical lead for new projects or service needs and research related to new and emerging technologies.
• Serves as mentor to lesser-skilled team members in multiple service administrative or academic service areas.
• Working with service managers or directors, serves as team lead for change migration and release management technical tasks.
• Applies update scripts, including but not limited to, database interventions (DBIs) as part of ordered change management and production support for integrated administrative or academic services and other associated integrated systems.
• Independently installs, evaluates, and tests new versions of RDBMS software and tools and ERP upgrades in multiple operating system environments.
• Provides Oracle support as it relates to making recommendations regarding maintaining the integrity, and recovery of Oracle database installations.
• Works with strategic team leaders to manage the coordination of synchronizing versions with the operating systems, utility packages and software applications.
• Provides recommendations for Oracle and other vendors' database tuning and systems maintenance as it relates to management of version upgrades & certification of software applications on new versions.
• Provide guidance as appropriate to application development personnel as it relates to tuning SQL application code.
• Support load testing tools configuration, usage, monitoring and results evaluation related to application testing and tuning.
• Recommends actions and provides analysis & troubleshooting for possible hardware, software, network, process, and system failures.
• Uses a variety of tools to build or implement scheduled, ordered execution of specific tasks to support database and application updates.
• Specifies user accesses and user access levels for database objects.
• Tests and corrects errors, and refines changes to database as it relates to providing availability and stability.
• Assists programmers and analysts to make changes to database management system and services.
• Answers support staff and co-worker's questions.
• This is an on-call position that typically follows a team rotation. After hours work and emergency after hours work is required when needed.

Skills

Oracle RDBMS

Banner

Jenkins

JAVA

Team leadership

Mentoring

SQL tuning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Ellucian Banner 9

Ellucian Solutions Manager (ESM)

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Weblogic/Tomcat

JAVA

Jenkins

Redhat 7.x

Job description

Advanced database administrator role with responsibility for Oracle RDBMS, Banner 9, and enterprise systems at the University System of Georgia. Will administer multiple RDBMS environments, support administrative or academic services, and guide teams on production issues in a Unix/Windows environment.

Requires experience with Ellucian Banner 9, WebLogic/Tomcat, ESM, and a strong background in Oracle tuning and disaster recovery.