Job Description:

Performance Tuning Database Application EngineerIf your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.6-12 Month Contract (Possible Extension)Location: Onsite (Client located in Merrillville, IN)*Must be able work on W-2 basis*Must be local to the Merrillville, IN areaCIP Applications Engineer is responsible for the reliability, physical design, performance,recoverability and security of corporate databases. This roles is ultimately accountable forthe availability, integrity, security, and survivability of corporate databases.Principal Duties and Responsibilities• Must have two or more years of experience with Oracle databases• Proactive in identifying business/enterprise technical needs. • 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. Planning is also performed by the DBA, along with the application developers and Systems engineers to ensure that any new product usage or release upgrade takes place with minimal impact• 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.• Occasional travel, including air travel.• The ability to perform duties effectively under emergency situations.• Must be available to participate in weekly 24x7 on-call rotation.• Ability to work overtime and weekends, when needed.EDUCATION• Prefer Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent