THIS POSITION IS BASED IN CNRL's CORPORATE HEAD OFFICE IN CALGARY.

At Canadian Natural, we believe all employees should share in the company’s success. We offer a competitive compensation package comprised of the following:
• Base salary, Stock options upon hire, Stock savings plan
• Annual compensation review (performance bonus, stock option
grant, share bonus grant and salary adjustment)
• 2009 Retention/Incentive Programs
• Company benefits

Corporate Relocation Assistance provided and includes:
• Movement of household goods, Temporary accomodations, Relocation Allowance , etc.
• Legal and Real Estate fees on sale and purchase

Position Summary
Scope:
- Our experienced, forward thinking Oracle DBA will be looking for the unique opportunity to showcase how oracle can be the lifeline of any business. By leading the change to improve corporate efficiencies, this hands on specialist will be recognized for their brilliance in database design.

Key Areas of Contribution:
- Conduct an overall review of the current business systems; and
- Design and implement a road map to take the company from standard to very dynamic systems
- Keep pushing the envelope to propel the team & client group towards greater efficiency.

Specific Accountabilities:
- Give Database Administration (DBA) support for application development activities, scripting, table/schema maintenance & refreshes, data/file cleanup and ID maintenance;
- Support and lead team and inter-department projects;
- Maintain up-to-date documentation including ITIL related processes for TEST/DEV/PROD Oracle database configurations, installations and management processes;
- Provide application support, job scheduling/management, office and on-call support for production Databases;
- Develop, document, execute and test disaster recovery strategies for Oracle Databases;
- Create and maintain exception reports for OLAs (Operational-Level Agreements) with the Service Manager;
- Keep up to date and report on SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) security standards and processes; and
- Design and maintain enterprise Oracle databases, ensuring Database standards, revisions, patches and releases are maintained.

Qualifications for the Position:
- 10+ years of experience with Oracle DBA, preferably in the oil and gas industry
- A University degree or technical school diploma;
- Oracle Certified Professional 9i/10g;
- Solaris OS, Linux, script writing, SQL, SQL tuning is required;
- Experience with MS SQL Server would be considered a valuable asset and preferred;
- Experience in the following tools would be considered an asset
– In-Depth/Precise,
– Toad, DB Studio,
– Enterprise Manager,
– Remedy

Personal Qualities:
- Successful at gauging resistance & a persuasive steady agent of change;
- Constantly make every effort to take a proactive, realistic and hands on approach to project work;
- Passion for visioning an ideal and the energy to calmly make it happen;
- Strive to ensure uniformity and stability in your working environment;
- Enjoy the challenge of analyzing a problem and quickly determining an effective solution.