[Remote] Sr. Database Administrator

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is a leading company in the scientific sector, and they are seeking a Sr. Database Administrator. This role involves providing comprehensive Oracle database support, collaborating with teams to implement complex database solutions, and ensuring optimal database performance and compliance with audit standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive Oracle database support in a high-performance, highly available environment
• Collaborate with application and business support teams to analyze, design, and implement complex database solutions
• Install, configure, and manage Oracle database environments on Unix, Linux, and Windows operating systems
• Implement, configure, and support high-availability solutions for Oracle databases
• Perform Oracle database patching and upgrades in a heterogeneous landscape, including Exadata, RAC, virtual machine, Veritas active/passive clustering, Data Guard, and Golden Gate
• Ensure optimal Oracle database efficiency by performing database tuning, SQL and PL/SQL tuning, and hardware/operating system consulting related to database performance
• Ensure database compliance with strict audit standards including SOX, PCI, FDA, FISMA, and HIPAA
• Ensure adherence to change control policies
• Manage database security at all levels
• Perform database backup, recovery, and cloning
• Automate and maintain automation for routine database tasks
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in a highly dynamic environment

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field of study
• 10 years of Oracle DBA experience on Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms, or related experience
• Installation, configuration, and management of Oracle databases, including standalone databases, and clustered databases using RAC, Oracle Exadata, Veritas active/passive clustering, virtual machine, Oracle Data Guard, and Oracle Golden Gate
• Oracle Exadata, including configuration, installation, patching, and routine support
• Engaging and managing Oracle support and Oracle Platinum support teams
• Analyzing and tuning Oracle database environments, including configuring databases for optimal performance and tuning problematic SQL and PL/SQL
• Oracle Golden Gate and data replication, including installation and deployment of Golden Gate locally and hub installations, instantiation of replication, and replication troubleshooting
• Creating and maintaining automation scripts for routine database administration tasks
• Unix/Linux shell scripting required or equivalent experience with Powershell, Perl, and Java
• Ensuring database audit compliance, including SOX, PCI, FDA, FISMA, and HIPAA controls
• Oracle database backup, recovery, and cloning using Oracle Rman, Veeam, EMC disk cloning, Data Domain, NFS, and Oracle ZFS backup technologies
• Database physical and logical design for transactional and data warehouse systems
• Managing databases in Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud deployments including RDS, EC2, and ATP installations, including resizing, patching, security, and maintenance
• Analyzing, implementing, managing, and testing large heterogenous Database Disaster Recovery implementations
• Database security including patching, user creation, password rotation, privilege management, profile management, and database encryption
• Supporting large ERP systems including SAP, JD Edwards Enterprise One, ecommerce, and large data warehouses
• Implementing and maintaining PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redshift databases
• Dissemination of information to both technical team members and leadership, documenting and maintaining documentation for critical processes and SOPs

Benefits

• Variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy
• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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