Oracle DBA

Oracle DBA required by Whitehall Resources for a 6 month contract role which will be based in Brussels.

We are looking for someone who has a minimum of 6 years experience working with the Oracle Database along with PL/SQL.

Role Responsibilities:
Data remains consistent across the database;
Data is clearly defined;
Users access data concurrently, in a form that suits their needs;
There is provision for data security and recovery control (all data is retrievable in an emergency).

Typical responsibilities include the following in order of importance:
monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast query responses to Front End users;
capacity planning;
further refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements;
working closely with IT project managers and service managers;
validating database design of new applications and optimizing existing applications in order to make them fit for purpose.
ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly;
writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata);
controlling access permissions and privileges;
developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans;
communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security;