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Title: Senior Oracle DBA Location: Newport Beach,CA Duration: 6 month contract Must have skills: Oracle, Exadata & Golden Gate Responsibilities: Provide production support, solutions and expertise for Oracle, Exadata & Golden Gate. Ability to support Sybase ASE, TimesTen & Sybase IQ as needed. Ability to troubleshoot difficult production issues quickly. Work closely with various development teams across the firm to ensure proper use of Oracle features, best practices, and adherence to database standards. Train and mentor developers in Oracle development methodology and best practices. Participate in the DBA team on call rotation. Tune complex Oracle SQL proactively & reactively as required. Be able to rewrite SQL queries where necessary. Design, implement, and maintain capacity planning for database systems. Perform Database Upgrades as required. Apply Database/CRS patches, PSU s, Bundle Patches, etc as required. Help design, maintain, improve and implement monitoring tools. Ability to work off hours / weekends as required. Qualifications: 10+ years experience as an Oracle Database Engineer or Oracle Database Administrator. 10+ years of database development support, and Oracle SQL tuning. 2+ years of production experience with Oracle Exadata is required. Understands Exadata specific concepts and has proven track record of implementing Exadata specific features. 2+ years of experience with Oracle Golden Gate is required. Expertise with Oracle 11g & Oracle RAC is required. Expertise implementing Oracle Data Guard and the different features around Data Guard. (Active Data Guard, Snapshot Standby s, etc) Expertise with RMAN, cloning, backup & recovery. Well versed in PL/SQL coding and stored procedures development, shell scripting, and SQL. Experience in architecting multi-terabyte systems, including a proven track record of physical optimization, query optimization and capacity planning. UNIX (specifically Linux) skills including but not limited to volume management, kernel parameter analysis, shell scripting, understanding of networking concepts. Proven track record of SQL and database tuning on VLDBs. Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills. Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Management Information Systems, or equivalent.