Local Mpls candidates ONLY. Due to Military and Government clients, prior military background with a possible ability for a clearance would be desirable. Our client does not sponsor H1B Visa candidates as this is a Contract to hire potential. ***Please note*** Preference will be given to those who thoroughly understand RMAN, UNIX scripting and migrating from MetroMirror. Oracle Production Database Administrator (DBA) The Oracle DBA will provide substantial Oracle 11g support skills toward overall Oracle production and non-production database support activities including installations, configurations, upgrades, performance, tuning, backups and DR, regular maintenance jobs, encryption and troubleshooting. This Production Oracle DBA position will also encompass some degree of testing in pre-production environments. This DBA position will require participation in a Production DBA after-hours on-call rotation schedule. This job will require the ability to upgrade from several levels of back versions of Oracle. Exadata knowledge is an additional asset. The successful Production Oracle DBA candidate should also be able to strategize, collaborate, and participate in various monitoring, performance, and analysis tasks with the goal of performance optimizations and retention of the corresponding historical monitoring metrics and statistics. As part of performance improvements, the Oracle DBA will also review SQL queries written by software developers for performance enhancements. Requirements Summary: This is dominantly an Oracle Production DBA position and requires a minimum of 4 years Production Oracle database administration experience. Although not a Development DBA position, the successful candidate must have an extensive working knowledge of UNIX and Oracle Jobs, along with automation. SQL programming background is very valuable. Due to acquisitions and consolidations, Data Management practices will be part of the Production DBA role. The ideal candidate would also have travel business knowledge. PL/SQL background is an additional asset. Travel itself would be less than 10%. The Production Oracle DBA may live and work in Minneapolis, Minnesota area. This is not a telecommuting position and relocation is not available.