ORACLE PERFORMANCE ENGINEERS

Here at Oracle we're looking for performance engineers to help staff the Strategic Benchmarking Group. We serve as RDBMS tuning experts in competitive situations against other database vendors, where alot of money is typically on the line. We work on the latest big servers and configurations from almost all hardware vendors, and focus on utilizing efficiently the latest in Oracle versions and technology. Our areas of focus are:

      Very Large Databases (VLDB) 
      Datawarehousing Applications 
      Oracle Parallel Server for both MPP and Clustered Platforms 
      Applications Benchmarks (Oracle Apps, BAAN, Peoplesoft and SAP) 
      OLTP benchmarks with high user counts 
      Parallel Query Optimizations 

The job is based here at Oracle headquarters, but requires limited travel in the US and in Europe. Please send resumes to me at the below address. I'll also include the full job ad below...

Tim

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tel: (415) 506-8714     Mail Stop 659103
fax: (415) 506-7360     Redwood Shores, CA 94065


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Performance Engineer/Open Systems Performance/CA-128494      

TITLE:                  Performance Engineer/Open Systems Performance/CA
JOB CODE:               NA
DATE AVAILABLE:         NOW
FIELD OF WORK:          Performance Engineering
DEPARTMENT:             Strategic Benchmarking Group
OFFICE LOCATION:        100 Oracle Parkway
CONTACT PERSON:         Tim Harris (email tjharris_at_us.oracle.com, tel:

QUALIFICATIONS (including physical requirements) DEGREE/MAJOR: BS/MS Comp. Sci.
YRS EXPERIENCE: 2+
OTHER:

• RDBMS tuning and performance experience
• Strong Unix background
• Experience working with customers
• Excellent communications skills

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work directly with customers on high priority benchmarks
• Perform low-level tuning and performance analysis of RDBMS
• Utilize a variety of Unix and NT platforms including SMP and MPP
• Co-ordinate and lead benchmark projects
• Writeup and present detailed project results