Oracle Exadata DMA

Description

Cognizant is seeking an Oracle Exadata DMA for a full time remote opportunity. The candidate can work anywhere in the United States.

Primary responsibilities • Administration of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA), an on premises Private Cloud platform. • Provide advanced Linux system administration/support for mission-critical systems. (OEL-Oracle Linux/RedHat). • Administration and support of Oracle Engineered Systems including Exadata, Private Cloud appliance (PCA) and ZFS storage system administration. • DevOps support with Ansible automation including Dockers/Containers. • Build, provision, onboard, administration, and support of Linux Virtual (VMs) on Virtualization/cloud platform such as private cloud appliance (PCA) or VMWare • Design storage strategies, LVM management, patching, backup, and recovery strategies with tools such as TSM/Commvault • Supporting Networking needs of system administration. • Adaptation of best practices/CIS standards and Performance tuning of servers and automation • User administration, Security/Access Control/Hardening/Resource monitoring and scaling of RHEL / OEL Linux infrastructure • Annual attestation of audit and compliance requirements and support Disaster Recovery DR) exercises • On-call rotation, Production support, troubleshooting, upgrades/migrations and attending ServiceNow tickets • Support software/firmware software concurrency and quarterly and ad-hoc patching cycles • Act as a liaison serving as primary point of contact between database administrators/Project Teams and Oracle Appliance/Engineered system administration team • Install and support highly scalable, available, reliable, and secure Infrastructure platform for database/business applications • Anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them by applying analytical skills and engineering solutions. • Uphold enterprise policy guidelines and recommend new / improved guidelines • Serve as a key resource on complex and / or critical issues and develop innovative approaches/Serve as Subject Matter Expert, and mentor • Working with Monitoring tool sets such as Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)/Zabbix/Splunk/HP/Grafana etc.

Required Qualifications: • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience • 3+ years of experience in Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. • 7+ years of strong and advanced Linux (RedHat or Oracle) system administration experience. • 3+ years of strong DevOps experience with Ansible/GitHub automation and Docker experience. • 7+ years of experience with Virtualization/Cloud platform and experience in building and managing Linux OS systems with strong understanding of how the Linux kernel works. • 3+ years of experience with Oracle Engineered System administration such as Exadata, PCA. • Strong Automation and Scripting skills (such as Shell, Perl and Python)

Qualifications

Technical Skills

SNo

Primary Skill

Proficiency Level *

Rqrd./Dsrd.

1

Oracle Linux Administration

PL4

Desired

2

Oracle

PL1

Required

Domain Skills

SNo

Primary Skill

Proficiency Level *

Rqrd./Dsrd.

1

Claims

NA

Required

2

Medicare & Medicaid Claims

NA

Required

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level

Generic Reference

PL1

The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.

PL2

The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.

PL3

The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.

PL4

The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.