Apps DBA opening @ Pythian in Ottawa - Will sponsor

Hello everyone,

I have a senior Oracle Applications DBA opening here at Pythian's headquarters in Ottawa. Working at Pythian is different than working in-house or as a consultant, because you'll be making your contributions available to each of the customers assigned to your team, allowing you to see more use cases, more technologies, and work with more and varied environments, all the while building interesting and long-lasting working relationships with your peers.

I will gladly sponsor a work visa to come to Canada for the right candidate anywhere in the world.

We support some of the most interesting and mission-critical Oracle Applications environments in the world, including one that is FDAregulated  in support of a global biosciences company. Meaning lives are at stake. It doesn't get any more mission-critical, or more personally rewarding, than that.

Top criteria:

• Outstanding Oracle Apps DBA on UNIX skills, bonus points for Apps RAC and major implementation and upgrades experience
• Exceptional troubleshooting, problem-solving and learning skills
• Superior productivity per hour and overall getting-the-job-done- right abilities
• Fluent communication skills in English, both written and oral, are mandatory. Second or third languages are also a huge benefit (we have customers all over the world and are always eager to add a language to our repertoire)
• Core DBA skills are a prerequisite for Apps DBA at this level, but you know that already
• Publications, blogging and presentations experience and interest a plus
• Experience with Oracle Applications Server and Portal a plus
• SAP, Peoplesoft and other ERP experience a plus

Job highlights:

• Work in an elite team of Apps DBAs for an elite group and growing of customers; you'll learn more here in a year than in any inhouse DBA job no matter how long you stay; I personally guarantee it.
• Work and gain valuable experience on every mainstream platform, including AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64, Windows, etc.
• Support every mainstream database technology and feature, including Oracle RAC, advanced queuing, advanced replication, every flavour of dataguard, RMAN, streams, etc. etc.
• Work across multiple industries including health care, manufacturing, media, dot-com, education, retail, services, and many more.
• Work in a company that values hard work, not long work.
• Work in a company that will allow you to research and write articles, presentations and blog posts on company time, and pay for you to present your research at just about any user conference worldwide where it gets accepted.

Learn more about Pythian and see our customer list at http://www.pythian.com.

To apply:

Send me an email with a one-paragraph introduction of who you are and why you are exceptional to me at vallee_at_pythian.com (vallee [at] pythian [dot] com. Feel free to
attach your resume in any format (Word, PDF, RTF, ODT, whatever makes you happy.)

More information about Ottawa:
Ottawa is a city of around 1,000,000 and is a great place to live. Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa Cost of living: http://www.finfacts.com/costofliving.htm Quality of life:
http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1000846.s...<http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1000846.shtml> http://www.canadaka.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3052 (Globe & Mail article reprint)

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