DAT Solutions, a subsidiary of Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ROP), is looking for a Database Administrator to join our team in Beaverton, Oregon.
This Database Administrator will report to the Manager of Data Engineering and be directly responsible for database operations, deployment, monitoring, issue resolution and uptime of our mission-critical applications. The company relies on this role to deliver on high levels of system availability and performance that our customers need to run their businesses.
The Database Administrator will be responsible for collaborating with product delivery teams to plan the deployment of data resources and the successful transition into ongoing operations. Other duties include following company policies and collaborating with team members.
Our platforms deal with an extraordinary amount of traffic, handling tens of millions of daily transactions. We have in big investment primarily in the Oracle databases (OLTP & Data Warehouse), as well as, Microsoft SQL Server, and Mongo. To support these, we operate a large infrastructure split between AWS, on-site and co-located data centers. We use best in class infrastructure, heavily leveraging VMware, Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), Linux, and NetApp.
Database Administrator Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for day-to-day administration of all database operations including monitoring, security, configuration, clustering, backup and recovery, high availability and performance and tuning. The DBA will work with the DevOps team to deliver the optimal investment in automation, monitoring and triage tools.
- Participate in the production on-call DBA rotation.
- Responsible for the long term care and feeding of our databases addressing areas of capacity planning, licensing, patching, installations, SOX compliance and upgrades.
- Provide 24x7 technical on-call support (3rd level) for database engineering team. With minimal supervision, the candidate is capable of assessing an ambiguous, complex problem, finding a concrete solution, building a recovery plan, communicating the progress to the plan while resolving the problem.
- Actively participate in the assessment, recommendation and migration of new data management technologies such as Redshift or Hadoop or NoSQL related technologies.
- Ongoing development of cloud data warehouse solution (Snowflake or Redshift experience preferred)
- Participate on project teams with other administrators, architects, data engineers and developers as we move parts of our infrastructure to cloud-based platforms.
- Establish organization-wide relationships and serve as database technical consultant.
Database Administrator Required Skills and Qualifications
- Must have at least 5 years of experience as a database administrator.
- Experience with OEM and Oracle patching
- Experience with Oracle Clusterware and ASM management.
- Candidate must have experience with database security, performance monitoring and tuning, migrations, storage and capacity planning.
- Candidate will collaborate with key stakeholders in the design of enterprise architecture solutions and systems in complex environments.
- Must have experience with large-scale, high availability database solutions, clustering, and off-site disaster recovery.
- Experience with table partitioning and partition management.
- PL/SQL scripting and debugging ability.
Database Administrator Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and database mirroring.
- Experience with NoSQL solutions or ecosystems, such as Mongo or
- Experience with hosted databases such as Redshift or Aurora.
- Experience with cloud database migrations and management.
About DAT
DAT operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Transportation brokers, carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on DAT for market trends and data insights derived from 141 million forecasted freight matches in 2017, and a database of $33 billion of market transactions.
The Original Load Board - Trusted Since 1978
The company was established in 1978 as the Dial-A-Truck (DAT) load finder service at Jubitz® truck stop in Portland, OR.
DAT Solutions offers competitive compensation and an excellent benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, flexible savings accounts, 401K, Life and AD&D insurance, a comprehensive Paid Leave program, and a Tuition Reimbursement program. Participation is limited to regular full-time employees.
DAT Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We especially invite women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. EEO/AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
Sponsorship and relocation assistance are not offered at this time for this position.
All referrals and résumés are managed exclusively through the Human Resources Department. DAT Solutions will not consider unsolicited résumés from vendors including search firms, fee-based referral services and/or recruitment agencies.
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