System Administration/Support- remote but must live in Pittsburgh, PA

Overview

Location: Remote- must live within 3 hours of Pittsburgh, PA

Job Type: Full Time/Direct Hire

Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen or Green Card only- (No Sponsorship).

The A.C.Coy Company is currently hiring for an Oracle DBA or Application Administrator supporting DB Applications for a full time/direct role. You will be responsible for supporting production, test, and development applications.

Responsibilities

• Database Administration in Oracle or SQL Server, or Oracle-based ERP Administration
• Monitoring backup jobs and system alerts and issue remediation
• Enterprise application and database management
• Project management functions as a project-team member
• Installation, configuration, upgrades, patches of Oracle databases and Banner applications
• Ability to work independently with some direction as well as in a team environment
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, in addition to outstanding written and verbal communication and technical writing skills
• Ability to initiate and follow through with work responsibilities and to meet deadlines
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and skillsets
• Ability to correlate fixes available in patches with identified functional and technical issues.  Work with Database Administrators to plan for upgrades and patches
• Basic SQL skills and experience migrating database objects
• Basic Shell Scripting
• Ability to execute fundamental database administration tasks to support the campus ERP and related technologies. 
• Ability to troubleshoot and support the campus ERP application with strong analytical sense

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (degree highly preferred)

• 2-5 years' experience with System Administration and Support experience
  • within an Oracle DB environment
  • supporting DB Applications
• Oracle Database Administration and Oracle-based ERP Administration
  • Monitoring backup jobs and implementation of backup strategies
  • Development and implementation of upgrade methodologies
  • Project management duties – research, scope definition, resource and time estimation, risk analysis
  • Installation, configuration, upgrades, patches of Oracle databases and applications