Oracle Database Administrator (Atlanta, GA but can work remote for now)

We are looking for an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to join our team for a long-term contract opportunity. You should have at least 6 years of experience as a Sr. Database Administrator. You will be responsible for data analysis and database management. You will be involved in the maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning. You will be responsible for understanding, configuring, and managing database administration tools. Additional responsibilities as follows:

• Provides database support for business applications and schedules back up jobs for user databases.
• Provides access control (password resets /account creation/deletion) and checks IP compliance (violation report review, compliance updates and compliance set ups).
• Performs data purging and data replication activities.
• Researches on connectivity issues and recurring errors in Application database.
• Responds to database alerts and takes appropriate actions.
• Provides escalation Level 1 and 2 Technical 24x7 support.
• Performs database creations.
• Performs performance tuning and troubleshooting for database.
• Performs application database maintenance and provides technical assistance to users.
• Manages database account access and database object changes.
• Ensures that monitoring and alerts are properly in place to meet monitoring requirements.
• Performs application database and OS scripting.
• Reviews Information Protection compliance reports and notifications for individual databases and internal processes (including compliance updates and compliance set ups).
• Performs data purging and data replication activities
• Performs database recovery from logs, hot & cold backups, Export/Imports and Disaster Recovery.
• Performs database creation decommissioning and database updates/migrations to a higher/lower version or cross platform migrations. Also involved in database, schema, and object refresh activities.
• Monitors and reports existing database Instance, Database, Server activities for CPU, Memory, and Cach, logs performance, and recommends effective resource utilization/emergency recovery procedures
• Provides Escalation Level 2 Technical 24x7 support. -Performs Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery activities during Business Continuity Plan events.
• Plans, schedules, and implements operating system software installs and patches (including 3rd party tools) using change management and release management processes.
• Implements database security and auditing features and periodic reviews. Conducts root cause analysis for repeated incidents.
• Performs heterogeneous database interface deployment and support for various data interfaces with applications, Middleware interface and functionality deployment with database architecture.
• Develops capacity planning processes that include monitoring of existing database Instance, Database, Server activities for CPU, Memory, Cache, Logs performance and recommends effective utilization of resources and emergency recovery procedures.
• Conducts team training and responsible for resource management.
• Provides escalation Level 2 and 3 Technical 24x7 support.
• Provides Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery support.
• Researches new technologies to address operations reliability and compliance.
• Implements and performs configuration management of database cluster and replications.