Description
At GDIT you'll be a meaningful part of improving how GDIT supports federal agencies in achieving their mission. Our continued success on the HOM Program depends on a Senior Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS) Database Administrator (DBA) joining our team to support our existing DBA team members in performing at the highest levels for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Financial Management Systems Group (FMSG).
The primary application that GDIT supports on the HOM Program is the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) which is a very large complex system with approximately 3,000 total users, processing an average of 4.5 million transactional claim records per day which equates to over 1.2 billion annually. There is an average of 46,000 new accounts receivable, and 168,000 payments processed per day along with 20,000 queries/reports run daily. Utilizing Oracle Federal Financials as the base application of HIGLAS, it provides CMS with a uniform financial management system to account for over $1 Trillion in outlays for healthcare each year across multiple lines of business.
In this role you will:
- Support our mission critical production environments including our validation, test, and development environments.
- Support mission critical production systems, to include being available as needed for off-hour deployments over nights and weekends; or to support on-call team members.
- Support Oracle EBS 12.2.x Database 19c RAC and Data Guard Databases along with other applications and databases.
- Automate routine DBA tasks using Python, shell scripts, and Ansible.
- Work collaboratively with functional teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, and external vendors.
- Provide solutions to improve system performance tuning/optimization.
- Support capacity planning and forecasting.
- Proactively monitor and quickly address identified application or system issues.
- Clone, patch and upgrade the Oracle DB & eBusiness Suite (EBS)/HIGLAS.
- Backup and restore the database and applications.
- Maintain and support the synchronization of our production and disaster recovery (DR) environments.
- Support migrations of data and code to various environments.
What you'll need:
- Bachelor's degree in information technology or technical discipline.
- 8+ years' experience supporting Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS) applications and environments (installation, configuration, upgrade, patching) in a R12.2.x environment with Database 19c.
- Deep understanding of Oracle databases, Exadata environments, RAC, Data Guard, and backup/recovery processes.
- Experience supporting middleware applications including Hyperion/EPM, ECC, BIAPPS/OBIEE, Tableau, SOA, Incorta, and analytics platforms.
- Experience with managing enterprise identity solutions including Oracle OAM, OID, and OIG is a plus.
- Experience in designing, developing, and testing updates and new enhancements within RDBMS and Oracle DB concepts.
- Capacity planning and High Availability (HA) configuration with DR setup and configuration experience.
- Ability to diagnose complex production issues under pressure and lead cross-functional incident response.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Desired qualifications:
- Experience in large-scale enterprise environments supporting mission-critical financial or ERP systems.
- Knowledge and expertise in Shell, Perl scripting and/or Python, Ansible scripting.
- Strong experience of Exadata Engineered Systems.
- Knowledge of Oracle cloud will be a plus.
Attributes for success:
- Consultative and proactive mindset for solving problems and presenting solutions to our team and our customers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Being a team player, including flexibility to support others when needed.
The likely salary range for this position is $129,813 - $175,375.