· Expert level understanding of Oracle database architecture
· Should have experience & ability to work with various teams to resolve performance issues (development, storage administrators, network administrators, system administrators and business users
· Specialized in Oracle RAC, good understanding of complexity of RAC Architecture across Servers, OS, network, storage layer
· Exposure to work on Oracle Engineered systems viz Exadata, SSC box & ExaCM
· Should have SQL tuning skill and experience at refactoring sql queries to improve performance
· Ability to diagnose the performance issues from SQL to Application to Database to System to Storage
· Excellent problem-solving skills, should be able to transverse across infrastructure layer to diagnosis issues
· Expert at HA features of Oracle database
· Complete understanding of Oracle database backup recovery options
· Skill to work under pressure in production environment on databases on all flavors of OS