Very prestigious financial firm in downtown Chicago is actively searching for an Oracle DBA with 5-7 years of experience. The preferred candidate must have 9i, 10g and RAC experience. The individual must have good physical design skills and some logical design, modeling knowledge. The candidate will be joining a team of 5 and will be responsible for installing, tuning, maintaining, supporting, and troubleshooting a large Oracle 9i, 10g environment. Excellent communication skills and strong documentation skills are a must for this position. Experience: Plan, install, configure and maintain development, QA, UAT and production database environments. Establish & schedule regular database maintenance/plans for re-indexing, db integrity checks, database shrinking, backups, & log file (DR) monitoring. Audit database security, software patches and upgrades. Serve as primary DBA support for mission-critical or problematic databases, and own problem resolution from end-to-end. Daily and intraday monitoring of database health - availability, reliability, performance, capacity planning, server clustering, replications, DR implementations e.g. log shipping, and connectiviy, with timely production issue remediation. Performance tuning: Indexing, compression, drive distribution, load-balancing, replication. Capacity projection, monitoring and remediation Setup and maintain accounts, access levels, and security, with monthly/quarterly security auditing of terminated/non-current users per FISP policy Translate technical database issues, requirements, limitations and parameters for management and staff, and understand business work processes and business impact. Evaluate and recommend best of breed and best for business database purchases and utilization of software products. Adherence to and enforcement of Firm change management control procedures in the context of database infrastructure and/or database code changes. Coordinate with and provide support for applications programmers, system programmers, users, administrators, and IT personnel where databases are concerned. Develop and maintain build standards and procedures for the database environment. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here