Senior Database Adminstrator

Job Profile Summary:

CAI is hiring!

CAI is seeking a Sr. Oracle DBA/Metering SME. This is a long term contract opportunity.  Our client prefers onsite but will consider remote for the right candidate. Our client is based in Allentown, PA.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Ensure health and stability of the Landis Gyr Meter Data Management System (MDMS), Command Center, and other metering systems
• Respond to system abends according to defined SLAs and restore service within required timeframes
• Respond and resolve incidents requiring immediate action during on-call pager rotations (24x7 operations)
• Evaluate requests for data repairs and/or other metering data requests
• Develop, unit test, and deploy data repairs against the MDMS and other Metering systems
• Facilitate user acceptance testing with the metering business community
• Review and test product upgrades and hotfixes in lower environments
• Support promotion of product upgrades and hotfixes in production
• Support monthly server security patching and other infrastructure related objectives that affect the metering applications
• Work with Metering Operations, Customer Care, and other business lines
• Ensure runbooks and other system documentation are kept current and accurate
• Function as the main L2 support contact and communicate with Landis Gyr on L3 escalations as necessary

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Experience working in a 24x7 operational support rotation
• Solid experience in operational support of Landis Gyr Command Center and Core Meter Data Management System (MDMS) products
• Strong understanding of the data model / data structure on core MDMS products
• Solid understanding of application ecosystems (i.e. infrastructure components where the application interacts)
• Strong experience (5 years) with Oracle v10-19 (PL/SQL)
• Strong experience (5 years) working with Korn Shell scripting
• Strong experience (5 years) working on Linux / Unix operating systems
• Solid experience with FTP tools such as FileZilla

Desired Education and Experience:

• Solid understanding of the meter-to-cash process
• Service oriented architecture (WebMethods or other)
• Experience working with job scheduling and batch automation tools such as Automic

Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communications
• Strong analytical and problem solving aptitude
• Focused on customer service and the ability to interact with all lines of business at PPL
• Ability to analyze and resolve issues with production applications in accordance with engagement SLAs
• Produce output that meets acceptable standards for quality, accuracy, and thoroughness
• Willingness to support some older legacy code to keep application running in changing environments

Physical Demands

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings, etc.
• Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard and monitor.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement: If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employment selection process, please direct your inquiries to application.accommodations@cai.io or (888) 824 – 8111.

This email is only intended for candidates who need an accommodation or assistance completing the application or interview process and will not be reviewed by CAI’s talent acquisition team.  All interested applicants who do not need an accommodation or assistance completing the application must apply on CAI’s career portal for consideration  https://www.cai.io/careers/career-portal/

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