Oracle DBA

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada. With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company. Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include: • Application Development • Project Management • Quality Assurance • Business/Systems Analysis • Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence • Infrastructure & Network Services • Risk Management & Compliance • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery • Security & Privacy Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation) • Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation) • ICAP (Contractor Payroll) • Flextrack (Vendor Management System) Oracle DBA - On behalf on our client in the Oil and Gas sector, Procom Services is looking for one Oracle DBA for a long term contract in Houston TX. Oracle DBA Job Details Database Administration for Oracle 10g, 11g or 12c. Monitor and manage database and file system backups, logging and archiving, database users and security, database storage, and database performance. Perform performance tuning; implement performance improvements; investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production database incidents. Support multiple Oracle and SQL application systems databases in installation, maintenance, upgrades, and day-to-day administration capacities. Identify, monitor, recommend and implement changes to database applications that insure a satisfactory end-user response time and reliability in database connectivity. Provide expertise and recommendations for physical database design, systems architecture, testing, performance tuning, and implementation, including table and server operating system maintenance and troubleshooting. Prepare and/or review database activity, progress and performance reports; keep accurate documentation. Perform SQL monitoring, debugging and tuning including query performance. Provide recommendations for enhancements and implement configuration changes. Optimize the database environment with respect to data access methods, data integrity, system performance and system availability. Participate in the evaluation, installation, support and on-going system administration and maintenance of monitoring tools and technologies. Design, implement, and maintain complex and highly available databases (production and non-production), translate logical data models into physical designs. Ensure detailed physical design of data structures and databases comply with enterprise standards, guidelines, procedures, and processes and are successfully implemented. Improve database recover-ability time by creating, maintaining and updating recovery and restore processes. Participate in Disaster Recovery planning and testing. Provide after-hours enterprise database and general system on-call support. Designs and deploys best practices for new technologies and implementations as well as knowledge transfer and mentoring to other team members. Oracle DBA Mandatory Skills Experience with multiple Oracle and SQL application systems databases in installation, maintenance, upgrades, and day-to-day administration capacities. BS Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline and/or equivalent work experience required. Minimum of 5 years of Oracle DBA experience with Oracle 10g, 11g, or 12c. Oracle DBA Nice to Have Skills Oracle database certifications/experience preferred Oracle DBA Start Date January 2016 Oracle DBA Assignment Length 12 month + contract All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.