RE: Oracle DBA opening in Englewood, CO

I was at the crossroads last year after being a middleware / DBA / "C" developer for several large software vendors. I chose to do the full ti= me
Oracle DBA thing, a move I'm now regretting. The support work is enough=  to
make you vomit, the endless backup documentation , tape rotations will grind you down and the work isn't project based so beware the fictitio= us
deadlines. I've be offered another postion but the experience has been good.

Working in an operational role is very different to a development role.=  A
college told me several years ago that:- Development has one mind set / Operational has another. The two rairly = meet
in the middle.

Think very hard about it !

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I've been an Oracle DBA for 1.5 years. For the last six months I've wor= ked
as a Java developer, in addition to supporting Oracle databases (all development). I'm at a crossroads here, trying to decide on a career pa= th.
Is the job description below pretty typical for DBA work? The idea of providing help desk support and end user support is enough to make me vomit.
That is just my personal preference.

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Currently, Great-West Life has a full-time permanent position available=  in
the
Financial Services Systems Division working on the Technical Infrastruc= ture
team
(comprised of System Administrators, Database Administrators and System=

Programmers). This challenging and team-oriented environment supports = our
rapidly growing Financial Services Division.

Helping to set long-term technical direction for the division, this individual
will be responsible for:

=B7 Providing technical support on UNIX-based distributed computing pla=
tforms
(specifically Sun/Solaris systems) for Oracle RDBMS and related product= s
(e.g.,
SQL*Plus, Pro*C, PL/SQL, Developer/2000 specifically Forms 4.5, Designer/2000,
Browser).
=B7 Perform 1st and 2nd Tier Help Desk and end-user support. In this
capacity,
will analyze and resolve technical issues relating to:

• In-house applications
• 3rd party software
• Database performance, capacity, recovery
• Hardware and associated peripherals (some)
  =B7 The installation and management of Oracle related products.
  =B7 Acting as team lead/coordinator of major project initiatives relate=
  d to the DBA team.
  =B7 Document all operations procedures related to team.
  =B7 Some on-call time required (no more than 1/4 of year as primary DBA=
  ).

Must have previous database administration experience, specifically wit= h
Oracle
v7.x and v8.x, preferably on Sun Solaris environments. Needs to be abl= e to

multitask and deal with a high-level of interruptions. Strong interpersonal
and
communication skills a requirement to succeed in this position. Other desirable
experience:

=B7 Sun Servers, Solaris operating system.
=B7 EcoTools, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Veritas Quic=
k I/O.
=B7 UNIX Tools & Utilities, (C/Bourne/Korn shell, Perl, tar, cpio, etc.=
),
NFS,
NIS, TCP/IP.
=B7 Intranet, Internet & Extranet, and WEB server environments.
=B7 Project Management.
=B7 System Security.
=B7 Server Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning.
=B7 X-terminals, Workstations, PCs.
=B7 Multi-threaded server experience.

This position requires a degree in Computer Science or Information Syst= ems,
or
equivalent applicable work experience.

Please send resume to :

                Alan Bowden
Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company
        8515 E. Orchard Rd., MS-5T2
            Englewood, CO 80111
            FAX: (303) 737-4850
         EMAIL: alan.bowden_at_gwl.com

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