RE: DBA Position available in Oregon

  • From: "Crisler, Jon" <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, <tyfaniew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:40:04 -0400

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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