Tuesday, July 01, 2008

TriZetto - Sr. Oracle DBA

Area Code: 303
Tax Term: FULLTIME
Pay Rate: DOE
Length:
Position ID: IRC4427
Dice ID: 10115492
Travel Required: none
Telecommute: no
Date: 7-1-2008
Description:
Are you looking for a winning company with a culture of empowerment? Do you want to use your skills to make a difference in a fast-paced environment? TriZetto is the largest company dedicated to providing information technology for the health insurance payer industry. We re an innovative industry leader, helping our customers respond to fast-moving trends and dynamics such as consumer-directed healthcare and the growing Medicare and Medicaid markets. Touching more than 35% of the U.S. insured population, TriZetto provides a broad array of premier information technology solutions that enhance our customers revenue growth, drive their administrative efficiency, and improve the cost and quality of care for their members.

We recognize that our employees are our greatest assets and want each one to have a long, successful career at TriZetto. Therefore, we offer a variety of training programs and career development opportunities, and believe in a healthy work-life balance. TriZetto offers paid vacation and sick time, personal days, and holiday time. Additional company benefits include medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, and a 401(k) plan.

The Senior Oracle DBA will be responsible for supporting Hosted Oracle database environments.

Responsibilities:
- Installation, configuration, patching and administration of Hosted Oracle databases.
- Monitoring systems for performance, stability and capacity.
- Backup and recovery of hosted Oracle databases.
- Performing Database refreshes.
- Upgrading of existing Oracle databases to newer releases of the software.
- Requesting SAN and NAS iscsi LUNs when appropriate.
- Supporting some custom pl/sql code.
- Working and assisting others on incident resolution.
- Supporting a number of production, test and development databases. Supporting users, application administrators and developers for Oracle databases.
- After hours on-call support. Monthly maintenance weekend support.

Requirements:
- Bachelors degree and OCP certification.
- 7+ years of Oracle DBA with at least 5 years of production DBA support and 2 years as a development DBA.
- Knowledge of installing and administering Oracle on the UNIX platform; AIX 5 experience a plus.
- Experience with both Oracle 9i and 10G.
- Experience with terabyte plus environments including large partitioned tables.
- Strong database and SQL tuning skills.
- Exceptional troubleshooting skills.
- Strong backup and recovery skills. Experience with configuring, scripting and administrating RMAN. Experience using Dataguard and log miner.
- Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager event system.
- Experienced with SQL, pl/sql and UNIX shell scripting; SQL loader; stored Java a plus.
- Working knowledge of storage including SAN, NAS, volume managers, disk stripping and mirroring.