RE: DBA Position available in Oregon

I have gotten a lot of responses off-list, and thought I should respond to
at least two points.

 

First - the 12-month contract is how the University of Oregon does all of
it's hirings.  Even the President is on a "12-month contract", with the
contract being renewed every year.  I'm not sure why they do it, but I have
never had a contract be not renewed without  it being the same as firing
someone with the typical Higher Ed paper trail,  etc for the reason for it.

 

Second - Yes, I'm definitely aware the salary range is low, but at this
point that is all the budget we have been given at this point.  In the
University's defense,  the benefits are pretty good, covered here:
http://hr.uoregon.edu/benefits/summary.html , including retirement, family
health insurance, and vacation/sick days paid by the university.  I'm not
entirely sure the benefits could compete with private practice, but it is
what I took into account when I was looking.

 

Thanks to everyone that took a look at the position.  I still have my
fingers crossed that we find someone good to work with that enjoys being a
DBA.

 

 

~ Tyfanie Wineriter ~

 

Database Administrator

University of Oregon

1212 University of Oregon

Eugene, OR 97402-1212

(541) 346-1366

 

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I agree with Jared - for an experienced DBA to do this job, with a 12 month
contract, you are quite low on the salary range.  

 

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Subject: Re: DBA Position available in Oregon

 

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Tyfanie Wineriter <tyfaniew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

We have a DBA Opening here at the University of Oregon that we are not
getting a great response on.  I believe it is because the title is a little
strange, but  it is a DBA position.

 ...

 A quick-and-dirty description of what the job entails:  Oracle stretch- RAC
system with 3 clusters, max of 4 nodes.  Our primary prod database is
running Banner, with 6 other miscellaneous prod applications, a total of
about 27 databases.  The DBA position also does a lot of other non-dba
duties, including developer, application troubleshooting, security,
hardware/networking and all the things that DBA really means for a smaller
IT division in Higher Education.

Hi Tyfanie,

 

Being somewhat familiar with the locale, I would say that will be a 

difficult position to fill for a couple of reasons.

 

1) the salary is too low for the knowledge and experience you describe.

 

2) most people looking for this type of position in the Pacific Northwest

    are more likely to be located in Portland or Seattle.  Indeed the reason

    me and my family are in the Portland area rather than Eugene (where my

    wife and I both grew up) is the scarcity of similar jobs in that area 

    should the need arise to again find employment.

 

3) ok, one more reason.  Flying out of Eugene to anywhere else is always

    a bit of a pain. It's often easier to just make the two hour drive to
Portland

    and catch a flight from there.  At least, this is one of the
considerations

    we had when relocating back to Oregon.  If something happens that I

    need to accept a position that requires travel, doing so from Portland 

    is much easier than doing so from Portland.

 

 

Just offering this as an explanation of why you may not be seeing much
interest.

 

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

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