Oracle Database Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Client is requires the services of Software Engineer 3 hereafter referred to as Candidate(s) who meets the general qualifications of Software Engineer 3 Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Client.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered works made for hire and are the property of the Client and may include preselection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Client will pay no fees for interviews or discussions which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

Develops software solutions by studying information needs conferring with users and studying systems flow data usage and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications standards and programming.

The Department of Information Resources (DIR) requires the services of One Performance engineer hereafter referred to as Worker who meets the general qualification of Developer 3 Emerging and the specifications outlined in this document for Health & Human Services Commission Social Services Applications team.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered works made for hire and are the property of the HHSC. HHSC may include preselection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Workers) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by the Texas law. HHSC will pay no fees for interviews or discussions which occur during the process of selecting a Worker(s).

Analyzes and evaluates application system and ecosystem performance and scalability across multiple tiers with particular emphasis on the data tier in both cloud and onprem environments.

Identifies performance and scalability bottlenecks and issues and propose solutions to resolve the same.

Simulates user/system traffic/load using scripts or other mechanisms measure evaluate and analyze component behavior.

Optimizes code queries and system configurations to improve response time scalability and resource efficiency (CPU memory I/O).

Analyzes and interprets Oracle wait events AWR Raw data and trace and correlate observations and analysis to system behavior.

Generates and analyzes AWR ASH and ADDM reports.

Extrapolates system behavior under representative load to predict system behavior under full load/stress.

Extrapolates system behavior from application and data tier metrics.

Communicates complex results analysis and metrics to diverse technical and nontechnical audience.

Evaluates and predicts future performance needs based on application usage trends traffic patterns and growth projections.

Conducts detailed root cause analysis (RCA) on performance issues to pinpoint the underlying cause of slowdowns or failures.

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in Analyzing and evaluating application performance across multiple tiers. Required 8years
• Experience with identification and solution implementation for performance and scalability bottlenecks and issues Required 8years
• Experience with Oracle wait interface and event analysis Required 8years
• Experience with Performance tuning of large Oracle databases in AWS (50 TB) Required 8years
• Experience with large Oracle Exadata databases and clusters Required 8years
• Experience with Single node nonExadata Database tuning Required8years
• Experience with Linux shell scripting SQL tuning and session tracing. Required8years
• Experience with AWR ASH ADDM generation and analysis Required8years
• Experience with Oracle AWR Raw data analysis and interpretation. Required8years
• Experience Extrapolating system behavior under representative load to predict system behavior under full load/stress. Required8years
• Experience with Presenting complex results analysis and metrics to a diverse audience of technical and nontechnical personnel. Required8years
• Experience with Troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and issues. Required8years
• Knowledge of Oracle internals pertaining to database performance Required8years
• Experience with understanding of application behavior performance and interaction patterns with DBs in relation to performance and scalability. Required8years
• Experience with extrapolating application and data tier metrics to explain system behavior. Required8years
• Experience with Technical writing and diagramming skills including proficiency with modeling and mapping tools (e.g. Visio Erwin) and the Microsoft Office Suite (Word Excel and PowerPoint) and MS Project. Required8years
• Experience working with multiple teams concurrently being able to prioritize and complete work on time with high quality Required8years
• Experience on an agile sprint team Preferred 5years
• Experience with JIRA software Preferred 5years
• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems or Business or equivalent experience. Preferred 4years
• Prior experience with an HHS agency Preferred 2years
• Prior experience working with PII or PHI data Preferred 2years
• Prior experience working with HL7 data Preferred 2years
• Prior experience in the Healthcare Industry Preferred 2years