What are the responsibilities and job description for the Oracle Database Performance Engineer position at ASSYST, Inc.?
ASSYST is seeking an Oracle Database Performance Engineer to support our government client's project based in Austin, TX (Remote).
Position will be remote. Program will allow candidates who are within the state (Any location within the State of Texas).
Duties and responsibilities:
Minimum Requirements:
Preferred experience:
Position will be remote. Program will allow candidates who are within the state (Any location within the State of Texas).
Duties and responsibilities:
- Identifies performance and scalability bottlenecks and issues and propose solutions to resolve the same.
- Simulates user/system traffic/load using scripts or other mechanisms, measure, evaluate and analyze component behavior.
- Optimizes code, queries, and system configurations to improve response time, scalability, and resource efficiency (CPU, memory, I/O).
- Analyzes and interprets Oracle wait events, AWR Raw data and trace and correlate observations and analysis to system behavior.
- Generates and analyzes AWR, ASH and ADDM reports.
- Extrapolates system behavior under representative load to predict system behavior under full load/stress.
- Extrapolates system behavior from application and data tier metrics.
- Communicates complex results, analysis, and metrics to diverse technical and non-technical audience.
- Evaluates and predicts future performance needs based on application usage trends, traffic patterns, and growth projections.
- Conducts detailed root cause analysis (RCA) on performance issues to pinpoint the underlying cause of slowdowns or failures.
Minimum Requirements:
- 10 year of experience in analyzing and evaluating application performance across multiple tiers with particular emphasis on the data tier in both cloud and on-prem environments.
- Experience with identification and solution implementation for performance and scalability bottlenecks and issues
- Experience with Oracle wait interface and event analysis
- Experience with Performance tuning of large Oracle databases in AWS (50 TB)
- Experience with large Oracle Exadata databases and clusters
- Experience with Single node non-Exadata Database tuning
- Experience with Linux shell scripting, SQL tuning and session tracing.
- Experience with AWR, ASH, ADDM generation and analysis
- Experience with Oracle AWR Raw data analysis and interpretation.
- Experience Extrapolating system behavior under representative load to predict system behavior under full load/stress.
- Experience with Presenting complex results, analysis, and metrics to a diverse audience of technical and non-technical personnel.
- Experience with Troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and issues.
- Knowledge of Oracle internals pertaining to database performance
- Experience with understanding of application behavior, performance, and interaction patterns with DBs in relation to performance and scalability.
- Experience with extrapolating application and data tier metrics to explain system behavior.
- Experience with Technical writing and diagramming skills, including proficiency with modeling and mapping tools (e.g., Visio, Erwin), and the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and MS Project.
- Experience working with multiple teams concurrently, being able to prioritize and complete work on time with high quality
Preferred experience:
- Experience on an agile sprint team
- Experience with JIRA software
- Prior experience working with PII or PHI data
- Prior experience working with HL7 data
- Prior experience in the Healthcare Industry
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or Business or equivalent experience.
