Applications Engineer/DBA -Merrillville, IN

CIP Applications Engineer

Merrillville, IN 46410, US

Duration: 12+ Months

Salary range: $ 50-70/hr.

Job Description

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications for Position

• Prefer bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent and two or more years of experience with Oracle.

• Demonstrates most characteristics of L1, L2 and L3.

• Requires minimum direction.

• Has mastered skills related to specific job responsibilities.

• Demonstrates ability to perform some strategic planning.

• Demonstrated ability to manage medium sized projects.

• Consistently prioritizes workload without management intervention.

• Demonstrated ability to review and contribute to functional and/or technical specifications regarding business requirements.

• Considered by peers and leadership to be SME in the working group.

• Proactive in identifying business/enterprise technical needs.

• Contributes to a safe work environment.

• History of developing strong working relationships with peers, leadership and customers.

• Consistently demonstrates high ethical standards and serves as a role model for peers.

• Demonstrated ability and willingness to train/coach others.

• Demonstrates ownership of systems and processes.

• Participates in business and technical direction setting.

• Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively.

• Ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.

• Ability to positively represent company in industry events.

• Able to interpret compliance standards as applicable to job role.

• Occasional travel, including air travel.

• The ability to perform duties effectively under emergency situations.

• Must be available to participate in weekly 24x7 on-call rotation.

• Ability to work overtime and weekends, when needed. Preferred Additional Qualifications for Position

• Advanced degree

Responsibilities:

Job Summary:

CIP Applications Engineer is responsible for the reliability, physical design, performance, recoverability, and security of corporate databases.

This role is ultimately accountable for the availability, integrity, security, and survivability of corporate databases.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Creates, maintains, and tunes all databases (including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures) required for development, testing, education and production usage

Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the databases.

Install new and maintain existing versions of the DBMS engines on distributed servers.

Evaluates releases of the database and its tools, and third party products to ensure that the site is running the products that are most appropriate. Planning is also performed by the DBA, along with the application developers and Systems engineers to ensure that any new product usage or release upgrade takes place with minimal impact

Plans and implements backup and recovery of the database

Implements and enforces security for all of the databases

Monitors databases for problems and performs preventative maintenance

Performs tuning of application code as it relates to database performance

Provides technical support and consulting to the application development teams

Troubleshoots problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools

Participates in disaster recovery events

Evaluate vendor responses to RFP, RFQ, RFI and support vendor selection process.

Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - offer eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.

Thank you!