Engineer 5, Software Development & Engin - Full-time / Part-time

Business Unit:

OSS Tools team @Comcast is seeking an Oracle DBA/PL-SQL Developer Engineer 5 role for managing Oracle RAC environment. You will be working with software developers to support and operate Oracle in production and non-production environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, optimize, maintain and support highly transactional Oracle clustered environment for optimum performance and 100% uptime for 24/7 business critical applications
• Provide production support in 24/7 environment on as needed basis and in partnership with operation teams
• Participate in the development cycle, contributes with PL/SQL development and guide application developers with Oracle related development
• Understand application functionality as it relates to database operation and provide feedback for improving performance
• Provides new hardware specifications based on application needs and anticipated growth, installs, configure new database servers and maintains the server infrastructure
• Collaborate with administrators and application teams to ensure that business applications are highly available and performing within agreed upon service levels
• Resolves technical issues through debugging, research and investigation. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Contributes to command and control related activities focused on restoration of complex outages, communication across Comcast, and rapid restoration
• Review and find existing issues and resolve them to improve database performance and uptime
• Uses knowledge of existing database platforms to evaluate and recommend new technologies
• Creates and maintain database policies, standards, current patching and overall documentation
• Work on high availability, replication, backup & recovery policies, baseline architecture, user access, data security & audit violations
• Evaluate and provide recommendation on new technologies as it pertains to handling large volume of data in highly transactional environment

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field
• 10+ years' experience with Oracle RDBMS including 11gR2, 12c, RAC, Oracle DataGuard, ASM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, RMAN, Linux/Unix experience
• 1-3+ years hands on experience with Oracle Golden Gate in a production environment, with direct experience in installation, setup, modification and troubleshooting
• 2+ year installing, automating, scaling and supporting NoSQL databases such as HBase, Couchbase, ElasticSearch, MongoDB among other emerging technologies
• 2+ experience in Scripting/Automation, preferably Python/Shell/Perl
• Knowledge and experience with relational DBMS concepts, design, architecture, operations and systems
• Experience to include, installation, performance tuning, database monitoring, database backup/recovery, capacity management, high availability and replication.
• Experience in Big data technologies like Hadoop/HBase, Hive is strong plus
• Master understanding of database concepts, availability, performance, usage and configuration.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize with little to no supervision, work well under pressure, team leadership skills
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary. Must be able to support 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Good understanding and prior experience with agile development methodologies
• Self-driven individual with ability and willingness to learn new technologies and find practical usage within application
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting abilities

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer