Senior Database Administrator

9th Way Insignia is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business bringing transformative technology to our government customers so they can achieve their missions. Our specialties include cybersecurity cloud modernization software development data analytics enterprise architecture enterprise IT analytics process automation and artificial intelligence. Learn more about 9th Way Insignia at password: Niner

Project Introduction
The Office of Performance Analysis and Integrity manages and enhances the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) which resides on one Oracle M8 Supercluster database and thirteen application servers. Our team provides the technical services required to sustain EDW applications to include Project Management Data Warehouse Management Advanced Analytics Tableau Server Administration/Tableau Desktop Administration Technical Collaboration Support Lessons Learned Executive Orders and Special Projects Architectural Enhancement and Cloud Migration. We also provide management enhancement integration implementation maintenance modernization and infrastructure support for EDW applications and enhancement and maintenance of business intelligence capabilities and predictive analytics.

9thWay Insignia is looking for a Senior Database Administrator to join our team.

Professional Level Information:
The Senior Database Administrator aligns to the Engineer 3 professional level within 9thWay Insignias career families. An Engineer 3 typically plans and directs research or development work on complex projects along with engaging various parties in design and development. Costs and recommendations of new components may also involve part of the job multiple engineering-related tasks in various assignments within the project and firm. An Engineer 3 oversees the design development implementation and analysis of technical products and systems. An Engineer 3 has broad knowledge of engineering procedures and assists in the resolution of complex problems. An Engineer 3 has strong technical skills and background a knack for learning new technologies and a blend of good problem-solving and innovation needed to resolve a wide variety of technical production challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the nightshift backup when nightshift DBA is unavailable. Hours are 11:30PM to 8:30AM.
• Monitor Oracle OBIEE and Informatica servers.
• Use tools likeAppDynamics and Oracle Enterprise Manager to monitor application and storage performance availability and usage.
• Troubleshoot and resolveCPU performance issues and system resource bottlenecks.
• Implement Oracle database performance tuning and improvement processes including AWR analysis SQL tuning partitioning and parallel execution.
• Monitor nightly Informatica processes.
• Execute daily backup and recovery strategies using tools such as RMAN
• Upgrade patch and configure OBIEE and Informatica servers patching experience is highly emphasized.
• Configure and maintainOBIEE security (object-level and data-level access) to enforce least privilege.
• Act as astrong OBIEE administrator collaborating with developers to optimize dashboards queries and metadata models (RPD).
• Collaborate with OBIEE/Informatica/Tableau/Power BI developers to develop performance improvement strategies and plans for execution.
• Manage object partitioning and parallel executions.
• Develop database compression strategies and storage efficiency.
• Coordinate patching and version upgrades with the VAs Office of Information Technology.
• Prepare deliver and maintain reports and technical documentation including root cause analysis (RCA) write-ups.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Electronic Engineering or other Engineering technical discipline (8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for degree)
• Minimum of 5 years supporting Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) applications
• Experience in Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and Recovery Manager (RMAN)
• Experience migrating Oracle database and BI tools from on premise to Cloud Environment
• Experience implementing Oracle database performance tuning and improvement processes
• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance

Preferred/Desired:

• Currently cleared for Public Trust at tier 2 moderate level or higher
• Experience with troubleshooting Oracle GoldenGate replication issues and support data sync between source and target environments (preferred).
• Experience in Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and Recovery Manager (RMAN)
• Experience migrating Oracle database and BI tools from on premise to Cloud Environment
• Experience implementing Oracle database performance tuning and improvement processes
• Experience supporting OBIEE applications

Location

Five days per week onsite at 1800 G St NW Washington DC 20006

9thWay Insignias range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.

Clearance/Background Investigation
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Benefits
Eligible employees will have access to our comprehensive benefits package which includes Medical Dental Vision Voluntary Life Insurance 401(k) Basic Life A&D STD LTD PTO Telehealth paid holidays FSA HSA. Additional resources include our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Traveling Assistance.

Legal
Were an equal employment opportunity employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change no matter their race color religion sex (including pregnancy childbirth lactation or related medical conditions) national origin age marital status sexual orientation gender identity disability veteran status military or uniformed service member status genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal state or local law.