Principal Database Administrator - 1701601

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Durham, NC
Posted on: February 24, 2017

Job Description:

Duties: Serve as a member of the Database Administration Team, which

provides database administration services for the core databases on Oracle,

MS SQL Server, and Sybase technologies. As an individual contributor will

work within a large scale environment, supporting all environment builds,

including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning, and

ongoing monitoring. Will perform Oracle and SQL Server database

administration activities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to DBAs in critical and complex

database work and champion best practices in the design and development of

database solutions.

• Ensure the efficient utilization of technology by providing

solutions to issues, balancing investment, technology, and customer needs.

• Contribute as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing consultation

across multiple business units and participating in architecture and review

meetings.

• Maintain database architecture standards across major technology

initiatives.

• Perform regular maintenance of the Oracle databases including

backups, restores, data pump, archiving, and review of logs for errors or

potential problems.

• Regularly review space capacity and perform tasks to manage space

usage through archiving or increasing space.

• Perform database monitoring and participate in providing on-call

support.

• Design, evaluate, and perform highly complex database performance

and functionality testing.

• Tactical responsibility for completion and implementation of

multiple major initiatives.

• Advise on risk assessment and risk management strategies.

• Perform advanced troubleshooting and performance tuning on complex

database issues on a critical 24x7 system.

• Research DBMS technology and recommend changes in project

development methods and strategies to architects and management.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in

Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems,

Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of

experience in the job offered or five (5) years of experience in Oracle

database administration; or, alternatively, a Master’s degree (or foreign

education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information

Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related

field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or three (3)

years of experience in Oracle database administration. Candidate must also

possess: Demonstrated Expertise (DE) in database administration of

applications using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Data Guard,

backup using RMAN, replication methods (including Materialized Views and

Golden Gate), and Perl/Unix shell scripting; DE in database

troubleshooting, performance/health monitoring using Oracle Enterprise

Manager (OEM) grid functionality, and plan management; DE in Oracle

administration, including installation, upgrades, patching, cloning, and

data migration; and DE in Sybase and MS SQL data migration.

To apply, visit http://jobs.fidelity.com and search for Job Number 1701601.

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