JOB POSTING : DBA EXPERIENCE AND SKILL INFORMATION Informix Tech Skills Needed : Informix Dynamic Server V10.x Technical Certification/Training : BA/BS: IS, CIS, CS, related technical degree; or equivalent applicable industry experience. 2 years minimum of Production DBA experience; along with knowledge of clustering technologies (shared & shared nothing) and data modeling. Unix administration & scripting as it pertains to a DBA, and database experience in open source databases such as MySQL are required. Experience in a production environment and warehousing experience is required. Overall IT Experience : 2 DESCRIPTION Interzone is a Publisher/Developer of MMO's using the Big World Engine, with over 100 employees spanning 4 continents. Interzone Games is looking for a DBA to join our growing, dynamic team. In this role, you will have a significant impact on our innovative products where your knowledge of database infrastructure components for online games will ensure the success of our products in a global marketplace. We are looking for a motivated, energetic, and multitalented DBA professional to own our administration, development, backup, recovery, and tuning of database components. A portion of your time will be spent performance tuning and maintaining existing development databases, profiling, trending, troubleshooting/issue resolution, and implementing system security; as well as other operational and development DBA requirements. This position also provides support for services such as registration, billing, customer service tools, as well as supporting business initiatives such as retention and promotional programs. The successful candidate must be able to plan, implement, and maintain DB operational services as well as develop database architectural and script based components. Unix administration & scripting as it pertains to a DBA, and database experience in open source databases such as MySQL are required. Experience in a production environment and warehousing experience is required. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of all technologies related to database systems in a collaborative environment with external partners, operations staff, developers, and executives. Responsibilities: * Maintain our relational databases and assist in the data modeling, development, and implementation of policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of all company databases. * Monitor and Manage database performance tuning, capacity planning, replication, and other distributed data issues through their lifecycle and validate the technical solution meets the business requirements. * Work directly with engineers on data modeling, logical/physical schema design and SQL query tuning; while assisting in troubleshooting, debugging and issue resolution. * Install and maintain database products, including patch application and upgrade to our environments, then implement those changes to our development, test, and production environments * Create new database infrastructure components for MMO's, and write scripts to automate routine maintenance tasks as appropriate * Collaborate with Executives to design and manage all corporate metadata; execute warehouse based BI solutions and automated metrics/reports to satisfy both game and business requirements. * Complete complex assignments requiring technical knowledge and experience to develop and implement creative solutions. Requirements: * BA/BS: IS, CIS, CS, related technical degree; or equivalent applicable industry experience * 2 years minimum of Production DBA experience; along with knowledge of clustering technologies (shared & shared nothing) and data modeling * Excellent oral and written communications skill with a high degree of initiative and the ability to work independently and follow-through on assignments * Experience with backup and recovery solutions including planning, implementing and periodic evaluation of backup/recovery (offline/online) strategies, recovery catalog, fast recovery strategies, and interfacing with third party products and hardware * High level of experience with schema optimization techniques, SQL level tuning, instance level tuning, storage tuning and replication based solutions, as well as solid understanding of capacity planning and traffic modeling. * Linux monitoring and tuning techniques as they pertain to a DBA Bonus * Knowledge of online analytical processing (OLAP) tools and data-mining software * Expert in partitioning schemes & pruning, data cubes, custom reporting solutions, PL/SQL & T-SQL program units, PL/SQL optimization techniques, ADT & OO database object experience * 2+ years of working experience in a mission critical environment (Data Center, 365x24x7) Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it JOB INFORMATION Date Posted : 09 Jun 2008 Start Date : 09 Jun 2008 Company Name : Interzone Internal Job # : DBA Location : , Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, BarbadosZimbabwe, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada-All, Canada-Edmonton, Canada-Montreal, Canada-Toronto, Canada-Vancouver, Canada-Windsor, Canada-Winnipeg, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Employment Type : Employee, Full-time Pay Rate : Open IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION REQUIREMENTS JOB CONTACT Name : Mike Macleod Turner Email Address : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone : Address :