Database Administration Manager jobs in Newark, NJ

Please note, candidates must be local to a Cigna employee office.

Enterprise Database Services is looking for a Senior Oracle Database Engineer to partner and help drive the vision of providing a best in industry array of database platform offerings that align with Cigna’s business needs across the enterprise and provide them in a secure and automated way.

Requirements:

• Provides counsel and advice to management and Engineers on significant Database Administration & Management matters, often requiring coordination between organizations.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders, Tech lead and Team members to discuss the requirements and implement in an efficient way.
• Analyzes, designs, creates and implements solutions for complex environment including automated installation, configuration, maintenance and operation of all infrastructure services in a way that supports speed, agility, security and resiliency.
• Interprets internal or external issues and recommends solutions/best practices.
• Liaisons with database software vendors and external technical support on issues such as software upgrades, problems and potential solutions.
• May participate in vendor selection and relationship management.
• Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines.
• Automate configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbooks and YAML for resource declaration, creating roles and updating Playbooks to provision Infrastructure.
• Use Ansible Tower for scheduling playbooks and used GIT repository to maintain and store the playbooks.
• Build, maintain and monitor configuration standards.
• Document and design various Infrastructure automation processes; update existing automation processes.
• Configuring metrics and alerts for monitoring and develop ways to improve.
• Recognized internally as “the go-to person” for the most complex Database Administration solutions.

Qualifications:

• 8 years of relevant experience and knowledge of Oracle database administration is required, other database technologies like PostgreSQL, MongoDB is a plus.
• Must have hands-on Oracle 19c experience with latest tuning and optimization techniques
• In-depth knowledge in OS and Storage internals that influence database activity.
• Hands-on Oracle DB upgrade experience, Oracle 11g/12c to 19c
• Expertise in Exadata, Oracle 19c, Oracle RAC, and ASM in Linux is required.
• Expertise in database performance monitoring and tuning skills, SQL and Stored-Procedure tuning.
• Excellent PL/SQL and SQL PLUS development and tuning skills are a must.
• Skilled at both logical and system levels desired.
• 3 years of hands-on experience with Automation tools and technologies like Ansible, Ansible Tower, GitHub, and Application program Interfaces etc.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or other cloud technologies required.
• Strong detailed analytical skills
• Ability to stay very organized while managing multiple tasks and activities
• Takes initiative and is a self-starter
• Dealing with ambiguity and problem solving
• Adapt communication style for the audience and topics
• Exemplary Written and Verbal Communications

About The Cigna Group

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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