Experis is currently looking for a team player with ability to communicate well with development team for a Financial Oracle Operations DBA contract to hire opportunity in Columbus, OH or Iselin, NJ. The perfect candidate will have 6-7yrs of experience installing software as well as with disaster recovery. Will need hands on experience with Oracle 11g, RAC, Data guard and GoldenGate would be nice to have. If you are interested and have the specified background, apply with your updated resume for consideration. Experienced Oracle Database Administrator to join a global team which installs, maintains and administers mission-critical, leading-edge SQL and Sybase databases. Will be accountable for Change Management, Incident and Problem management reporting and analysis, creation and maintenance of Service Level Agreements, management communication, client relationship management with assigned application areas, and/or coordination of multiple staff involved in internal/external customer file transmission implementations. This individual may lead several teams that may cross project boundaries, but typically will be responsible for both deliverables and projects. Responsibilities: * Day-to-day 24x7 production Oracle operations (incident break/fix, change, service requests, vulnerability management). * Production patch/upgrade management. * On-Call pager rotation. * DBMS security support. * Understanding of common infrastructure components. * Customer support & communications. * Project based infrastructure and installation work. * Providing first-class database support and administration; * Fine-tuning and optimizing poorly performing databases and the related infrastructure; * Ensuring synchronization between production replica databases; * Running or re-running of failed regular jobs and killing failed tasks. Additional Skills: * Experience in Replication, Clustering, and other methods of disaster recovery. * Experience in RAC, RMAN, tuning, and preferably GoldenGate * Performs data modeling, logical and physical database design. Includes maintenance of database dictionaries, monitoring of standards and procedures * Responsible for data loading, security, performance monitoring and tuning, capacity planning, and backup and recovery. * Executes database software installation, database creations/configurations and loads. * 3-5 years experience working with an application development team. * Minimum 5-7 years of work experience as a Database Administrator * Solid skills in database performance factors, DR, monitoring tools and tuning procedures * Strong Database Management skills, including backup and recovery procedures * Solid skills in productivity factors and ability to understand impact of problem on overall database performance * Knowledge of fault detection and resolution processes * Strong skills in maintenance tools and procedures * A quick-thinking problem solver, able to assimilate data rapidly in order to present solutions to day-to-day incidents; * Be a strong, dynamic character, capable dealing effectively with colleagues and business users working in a constantly evolving environment across multiple time-zones and cultures; * Be able to remain calm under pressure and when faced with adversity or urgent issues; * Customer-focused with a "service first" mentality and best-in-class communication skills; * Be able to view currently processes and procedures as opportunities for enhancement, tuning and improvement. * Be able to work to business deadlines