Description

The role of the Senior Database Administrator (DBA) is to provide direction regarding the administration, monitoring, analysis, and effective maintenance of Cliffs Natural Resources databases. The primary objectives of these activities are high performance, high availability and responsiveness to users and other technical team members. The Senior DBA will be expected to assist in other areas that assist I.T. in meeting business requirements, such as coding, documentation, research, etc… of software and applications.

Operation Excellence

• Responsible for administering and supporting high performance, highly available, and mission critical database platforms in a heterogeneous database environment consisting of Oracle, MS SQL Server, and other varieties

• Install, configure, upgrade and maintain database instances, create various database objects, create users with appropriate roles and levels of security

• Implement / maintain database backup, recovery, and redundancy strategies that meet recovery and availability requirements

Global Execution

• Perform database performance analysis, capacity planning, system sizing and ongoing maintenance/tuning to ensure maximum performance

• Provide DBA support and technical expertise for multiple applications in multiple environments

• Implement / maintain automated monitoring to ensure proactive handling of issues to minimize unplanned downtime

Growth and Diversification

• Work closely with the vendors, external consultants, various application support teams, enterprise and infrastructure architects, IT technical support teams, knowledge management teams, quality assurance, security and operations to implement and support databases that solve business problems

• Implement / maintain database security policies that are consistent with security guidelines

Shareholder Returns

• Recognize areas for improvement within the team, the process, technology, etc… and take appropriate action to recommend and initiate the change

• Actively promote teamwork to achieve group goals

Education:

• University degree in the field of computer science, information systems or similar/related field

• Prefer a level of Oracle or Microsoft certification around Database Administration

Experience (Required):

• Minimum 5 years experience as a DBA

• Experience working with Oracle 11g RAC instances

• Experience working with SQL Server 2008 in a clustered environment

• Experience working with databases deployed on Linux, UNIX, and Windows 2008

• Demonstrated competency within SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL

• Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, and other High Availability concepts

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.x (or higher)

• Experience working in an enterprise environment

• Experience with Oracle Exadata V2-2

Experience (Requested):

• Experience working with Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 or higher

• Experience working with Oracle Databases deployed on Windows environments