Application Engineer - Merrillville, United States - Motion Recruitment

Description

Our client is looking to hire an Application Engineer to join their team on site in Merrillville, IN. **This is a 1 year long contract with the potential to extend or convert**

Qualifications:

• Prefer Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and two or more years of experience with Oracle.
• Demonstrates most characteristics of L1, L2 and L3.
• Requires minimum direction.
• Demonstrates ability to perform some strategic planning.
• Demonstrated ability to manage medium sized projects.
• Considered by peers and leadership to be SME in the working group.
• Proactive in identifying business/enterprise technical needs.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to train/coach others
• Ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
• Able to interpret compliance standards as applicable to job role.
• Occasional travel, including air travel.
• The ability to perform duties effectively under emergency situations.

Responsibilities:

• CIP Applications Engineer is responsible for the reliability, physical design, performance, recoverability and security of corporate databases.
• This roles is ultimately accountable for the availability, integrity, security, and survivability of corporate databases.
• Creates, maintains, and tunes all databases (including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures) required for development, testing, education and production usage
• Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the databases.
• Install new and maintain existing versions of the DBMS engines on distributed servers.
• Evaluates releases of the database and its tools, and third party products to ensure that the site is running the products that are most appropriate.
• Plans and implements backup and recovery of the database
• Implements and enforces security for all of the databases
• Monitors databases for problems and performs preventative maintenance
• Performs tuning of application code as it relates to database performance
• Provides technical support and consulting to the application development teams
• Troubleshoots problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools
• Participates in disaster recovery events
• Evaluate vendor responses to RFP, RFQ, RFI and support vendor selection process.