Oracle Database Administrator

Akkodis is seeking Oracle Infrastructure DBA for a long term contract position which is Onsite with to Woodlawn, MD. Ideally, We are Looking for experience with Oracle DBA, RedHat Ansible Playbook, Oracle On-Prem Infrastructure and Cloud Platforms, OVM virtualization technology with Python and JSON API calls, Oracle Private Cloud Platform Administrator Git and BitBucket.

JOB TITLE: Oracle Infrastructure DBA

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: 18 Months Contract

LOCATION DETAILS: Woodlawn, MD (Onsite 5 days per week)

Salary Range: $60 - $68/Hour (Salary may be negotiable based upon experience, education, geographic location, and other factors).

Responsibilities:

Work with advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.

Be challenged with working on complex technical problems and providing innovative solutions.

Work with highly experienced and technical resources

Creating and maintaining new and existing Ansible Playbooks to automate Linux administration, Oracle software, Oracle databases, and other third-party software.

Updating Ansible playbooks for new versions of software and patches.

Installing, developing and maintaining scripts and code to support various new system functions.

Developing and using Ansible dynamic inventories using Python.

Using Oracle Private Cloud Platform Administrator Git and BitBucket to maintain and store Ansible playbook repositories.

Creating and modifying Jenkins Jobs for lifecycle deployment of Ansible playbooks.

Maintaining and supporting OVM virtualization technology with Python and JSON API calls.

Maintaining and developing Python JSON database to supplement inventory.

Creating and maintaining Groovy pipeline code for Jenkins Jobs.

All other duties as assigned or directed

Qualifications:

7 years of experience or more as an Oracle Platform Administrator

5 years of experience with basic Linux knowledge, skills and abilities with any of the following Fedora based operating systems (RHEL, OL, CentOS)

4 years of experience supporting an Oracle Cloud platform

4 years of experience programming knowledge in Python including JSON API based calls and PHP

4 years of experience with creating and troubleshooting Ansible playbooks. Ability to take documented manual procedures and translate them to Ansible playbooks.

2 years of experience with Groovy and Jenkins

3 years of experience with creating and troubleshooting Ansible playbooks. Ability to take documented manual procedures and translate them to Ansible playbooks.

Expertise in the Linux command-line environment

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Required Skills:

Knowledge of Jenkins including groovy pipeline scripting and job creation.

Knowledge of version control systems such as Git.

Ability to create Linux scripts for the completion, automation of task level requirements and ability to create and manage cron jobs in Linux.

Knowledge of a software development lifecycle that includes development, validation, integration, training and production

Ability to develop a detailed project plan that includes schedule, scope, communication plan, risk analysis, resource estimates, milestones and back-out procedures.

Ability to produce operational documentation using industry best practices in technical writing.

Ability to gather process requirements to automate into Ansible playbooks.

Ability to develop and implement service request workflows for automating system operation and maintenance processes.

Ability to perform written and oral communications, and oral presentations, to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, and to interface with the internal customers on a daily basis.

Adept at working independently, but also in a team environment.