Location: Englewood, CO
Area Code: 303
Tax Term: FULLTIME
Pay Rate: DOE
Length:
Position ID: IRC18236
Dice ID: echostar
Travel Required: none
Telecommute: no
Title:
Oracle Apps Senior DBA
Skills:
Experience in Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11g. Solid experience with upgrading and maintaining Oracle Apps 11i, specifically versions 11.5.10 as well as R12.
Date:
8-21-2008
Description:
DISH Network, a Fortune 250 company with over 23,000 employees and 2007 revenues of over $11B, serves over 13.8 million customers with the latest in satellite TV programming offerings and technology, providing better TV for all. We aggressively recruit energetic, driven and intelligent people to meet the demands of our exciting industry and to help us reach our vision of changing the way the world communicates.
This is an Oracle Applications support position that includes 24x7 on-call rotation. The following experience is a requirement for this position:
*Oracle Applications 11i Administration
*Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g Administration
*Application fundamentals such as concepts and architecture
*Application Installation and configuration
*Patching and upgrades
*Patch Management and Version Control
*Customization of updates
*Cloning requirements
*Concurrent Managers administration
*Forms/Report Servers maintenance and configuration
*Web Servers configuration
*Functional understanding of all "ad" utilities
*Understanding of all the database restrictions for the applications.
*Understanding of all special application related functions whether regular or maintenance, such as month end and period end functions.
*Understanding of any backup and recovery constraints, such as table imports and partial recoveries.
*Special requirements and restrictions for tuning, i.e. optimizer and index requirements.
*Printer Configuration
*User Access Administration
Applicant will be responsible for enterprise database administration including but not limited to:
*Administering Oracle Applications, including change management requests, monitoring, patching, performance tuning, backup and recovery; with emphasis on uptime, consistency, scalability and performance.
*Supporting and implementing upgrades for all Oracle databases.
*Providing performance assessment and tuning as related to the operating system, the database, and the disk subsystem.
*Providing periodic reviews of database engine performance and monitoring levels.
*Automating regular maintenance and monitoring tasks.
*Defining and implementing of best practices methodologies for Oracle Applications support, patching, refreshes and maintenance.
*Providing technical leadership for interfacing with system administrators, technical managers, developers, and architects.
*Demonstrating leadership through technical knowledge, interpersonal skills, business knowledge, organizational skills and professionalism
*Designing, implementing and monitoring database backup and recovery processes.
Bachelor*s degree (preferably in Computer Science or MIS/CIS); Oracle Certification preferred. Relevant experience may be substituted for education. 7-10 years experience as an operational DBA on various RDBMSs, with an emphasis on Oracle and secondarily SQL Server and Teradata.
Experience in Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11g. Solid experience with upgrading and maintaining Oracle Apps 11i, specifically versions 11.5.10 as well as R12. Strong Oracle Apps 11i functional knowledge is required. Applicant must have good knowledge of application hardware devices, operating systems, storage units, networks and how they interrelate. Applicant also needs to have solid experience with UNIX operating system, shell scripting and PL/SQL.
DISH Network offers our employees the following benefits:
*Medical, Health Savings Account, dental, and vision insurance
*401(k) and employee stock purchase plan
*Tuition reimbursement
*Employee referral program
*Training opportunities
*FREE satellite TV system and programming
J Padgett
Dish Network Svc LLC
