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What you’ll be doing...

This opportunity is for Military personnel who are current participants of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or are participants of the Hiring Our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program Cohort 3-2024

You will work on full-cycle database administration on multiple database technologies hosted on both in-house and cloud platforms. You will interface with multiple development teams and support their project life cycles while ensuring that the databases are available, recoverable, secure and meeting the performance expectations. You will also mentor and assist junior staff on other teams and contribute to projects based on new or changed technology.

• You will deploy and configure Oracle Database Infrastructure, including troubleshooting cluster issues within and outside the cluster - server, network, and SAN layers.

• You will patch Oracle Database software as well as Oracle Exadata-engineered systems on a quarterly basis.

• Create database standardization documentation so support teams can follow and adopt the standards the team sets forth.

• You will also be a system administrator on Exadata.

• Support both the objectives of the development teams and the Corporate/Departmental goals in the areas of implementing standards across the team for database deployment, recoverability, performance, compliance, and security.

• Support the migration of databases from in-house data centers to Oracle cloud environments. In this capacity, you must either possess the skills to work with these cloud providers or rapidly acquire these skills on the job.

• Release deployments typically occur after normal business hours and on weekends. Additionally, you will be part of a DBA team providing rotating 24x7 pager support. You will provide such after-hours and weekend support to both the applications directly assigned to you and other applications supported by the Team.

• You will work with multiple teams, particularly with the Development, Security and Systems Administrators and any other interfacing groups. You will interface with both development and monitoring staff located in countries outside of the United States and in other corporate entities supporting outsourced applications.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience with Unix - RHEL or Oracle Enterprise Linux.

• Have a firm understanding of SAN and network layers.

• Have experience with Oracle RAC, how to deploy and how to utilize Oracle RAC and typical rac commands.

• Oracle database administration experience

• Experience with an additional database such as but not limited to MySQL, SQLServer, Postgres

Even better if you have:

• A degree or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and / or relevant technical disciplines.

• End-to-end knowledge of Oracle database technologies including Oracle RAC, Exadata, Golden Gate, Dataguard, RMAN, and OEM.

• Experience tuning on multiple database technologies.

• Experience with problem analysis and tuning on multiple database technologies.

• Design and deployment skills.

• Ability to implement physical designs from logical designs.

• Unix level scripting skills

• Unix expert OS fundamentals.

• Experience with other database technologies such as sqlserver, cassandra, mongo, Postgres

• Experience programming in Java, Python or any other language

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

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