Lead Database Administrator

Manage Database Team located in multiple locations  Handle projects driven by both Offshore & Onshore  Distribute Work and project tasks  Track projects and daily tasks  Manage patch deployments and upgrades following best practices and provide capacity planning expertise  Provide administration of development database environments including UAT, Processing, Development, and QA-based Oracle RAC database  Perform security implementation in both OS and Database level of production servers ensuring several standard policies and compliances (HIPAA, SOX, PHI)  Support the business by providing logistic support to Analytics, Production Engineers, Project Managers, and Developers  Working with a distributed team of IT and DBA resources to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that Vertica database platforms are highly available, optimally configured, and efficiently managed  Maintain Production servers and minimize downtime and tuning performance of database instances  Plan for System change and implement  Provide support to Businesses during the Release process.  Perform short- and long-term system/database planning and analysis including capacity planning, storage performance, system performance, and database performance  Daily use of SQL, PL/SQL, and T-SQL performance tuning  software installation, configuration, upgrade, and maintenance activities  High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options