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Database Administrator

ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR: Arkansas Supreme Court, Court Information Systems Division, Little Rock, AR. Summary: The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is seeking a well-rounded IT professional with significant Oracle database administration experience who is also willing and able to work with the IT team in other software and hardware support duties.  Duties: Maintain/tune/develop Oracle database applications. Install/test software updates. Assist programmer with legacy system integration and data conversions. Assist network administrator in maintaining system applications. Assist in user pc and application support as needed. Work with IT team in planning and budgeting. Other duties as assigned. Qualifications: The formal education of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and two years in an Oracle database administration role is required, and significant experience in user application support is highly desired.   Relevant experience may be substituted for education.  Applicants must demonstrate skill in oral and written communication, and dedication to public service.  2+ years of database administration using Oracle databases.  Salary: $60,000 - $75,000 (2007)

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR: Annapolis, Maryland. Summary: Sets up and maintains mission critical servers and backups for District Court locations statewide. Duties: Develops conceptual and logical data models for new systems and coverts logical models to physical models selecting appropriate levels of normalization. Assists and supports application programmers including building and maintaining the proper data structures required by applications. Works with application team to ensure that proper methods are used to embed data access.  Works with application team to minimize deployment and maintenance costs. Codes PL/SQL stored procedures, triggers, packages, procedures, and functions. Codes middle tier CORBA applications for n-tiered distributed systems. Maintains source code version control for all production applications. Skills/Abilities: Extensive knowledge of court business and functions. Knowledge of the principles and practices of information systems planning, analysis, design, programming, budgeting, operations and maintenance. Knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle, Access, PL/SQL, SQL, ER diagrams; middle tier architectures such as J2EE/Struts, CORBA; networking technologies such as TCP/IP, Oracle networking, Novell; data access technologies such as JDBC, ADO, ODBC, dbExpress; programming languages such as C++, Java; and operating systems such as Windows 2000/2003, UNIX (AIX, Linux). Ability to adapt to changing complex information technology principles, theories, and solutions. Ability to communicate effectively and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers, users, software vendors and consultants. Ability to perform all essential functions of the position. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field. Five years of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining databases, plus two years of experience as a database administrator. Equivalent additional years of experience relevant to position duties and requirements may be substituted for degree. Salary: $57,000-$84,000. (2006)

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR: Arizona Supreme Court, Phoeniz, Arizona. Summary: This position is responsible for technical and administrative work on Arizona Supreme Court’s IBM Informix and Microsoft SQL enterprise databases. Duties:  This position a member of database team responsible for daily administration of over 150 IBM Informix and Microsoft SQL databases. The position will act as the control point for identifying, trouble-shooting and resolving system problems and consult with customers on database requirements. In addition, the position will monitor the database management system (DBMS); monitor and tune the database engine based on standard policies; and debug development programs and functions. Qualifications: The position requires a minimum of five years experience with client/server systems with at least three years as an Informix DBA. The position needs experience as an Enterprise Microsoft SQL DBA with knowledge of complex data manipulations and database security.  Technical support experience in an AIX and Windows in a multi-system and/or multi-platform environment is essential.  The position needs the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical customers.  A bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or a related field is required. Salary:$49,500-76,500. (2005)

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR: Duties:  (General Description) Under general direction, controls, monitors and maintains data bases for a statewide client-server system with relational databases for multiple servers by combining data from all local servers and providing other justice agencies with access to information. Resolves problems occurring on the system, oversees the management of the data dictionary, installs system software, coordinates database management functions with other information system areas and advises management on planning the database environment. This position is the final arbiter of database modifications and performance initiatives.  Work performed:  Designs databases and resolves database management problems to ensure data availability and integrity. Implements and maintains database security; defines, allocates and loads physical databases; controls and executes system utilities to create and modify database structure and establishes standards for database performance. Coordinates interfaces with other databases to facilitate data sharing and ensure compatibility. Analyzes system failures and executes procedures to restore system and database operations. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field and five years of database administration experience in a multi-user environment, application programming or systems analysis and design. In-depth knowledge of relational database management system design principles, performance optimization, data integrity principles, database synchronization techniques and systems utilities; backup and recovery techniques; data replication and warehousing techniques.(2001)

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Telecommunications Engineer

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER: Duties: Under direction, provides engineering and technical telecommunications support for state-wide LAN, WAN and frame relay systems. Designs, plans, configures, implements, controls, monitors and maintains a multi-user, multi-site network in a client server environment. Seeks innovative and state-of-the-art solutions to develop the highest level of responsiveness, production and functionality from the network infrastructure investment. Work performed: Manages a multi-site telecommunications environment to provide network connectivity and stability for court operations and the case management application. Monitors the network for errors that are transparent to users. Resolves problems with the network, including routers, frame relay and modem connection. Orders, or oversees the ordering of, all the hardware and vendor service. Develops technical documentation to incorporate configurations for capacity planning and budget submissions. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, telecommunications, computer science or a related field and six years of general experience in network administration and telecommunications support activities in a multi-user, multi-site environment as a network administrator or network manager. (2001)

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