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Senior Performance Tuning Specialist
@ Alberta Health Services
Edmonton, Alberta
Overview
Alberta Health Services is hiring a Senior Oracle Performance Tuning Specialist to troubleshoot and tune performance problems in large PeopleSoft HCM applications on Oracle databases. The role reports to the Director IT - Provincial Workforce Systems and covers architecture guidance, monitoring and alerting, and load testing during upgrades. The posting states a 7x24 on-call rotation may be required.
Responsibilities:
- Tune Oracle and PeopleSoft performance problems
- Build monitoring and alerting scripts and PL/SQL packages
- Escalate issues to Oracle support and third parties
- Load test applications during PeopleTools and RDBMS upgrades
- Advise developers and administrators on optimization
Requirements summary:
- Many years of in-depth Oracle and PeopleSoft experience
- Senior PeopleSoft administration experience
- Experience on Linux, Windows, AIX and UNIX
- Strong written and interpersonal communication
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction
Tools & skills
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- 2026-11-13
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- 2026-11-13
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Alberta Health Services
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Healthy Albertans. Healthy Communities. Together.
Full company description
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is proud to be part of Canada’s first and largest provincewide, integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to more than 4.5 million people living in Alberta, as well as occasionally to some residents of other provinces and territories Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life, and from all corners of the world. Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans. Our five values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety – are at the heart of everything that we do.
- LinkedIn followers
- 221,476
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 46,271
- Reported office locations
- 10030 – 107 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3E4, CA
- 1620 29 St NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4L7, CA
- Other recorded names
- Alberta Health Services
- Specialties
- Health Support and Services
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Alberta Health Services (AHS) is proud to be part of Canada’s first and largest provincewide, integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to more than 4.5 million people living in Alberta, as well as occasionally to some residents of other provinces and territories Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hospitals and Health Care |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Organization type | Nonprofit |
| Year founded | 2008 |
| Specialties | Health Support and Services |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 2,171 |
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Your Opportunity:
Reporting to Director IT - Provincial Workforce Systems, a Senior Oracle Performance Tuning Expert will provide many years of in-depth industry experience in: Troubleshooting chronic performance problems in large applications including PeopleSoft HCM based on Oracle databases and providing optimal tuning solutions at Oracle database level and/or in PeopleSoft code. Web based applications running on Linux, Windows, AIX, UNIX platforms as Senior PeopleSoft Administrator. The incumbent must interpret the strategic direction of the organization and external industry trends to provide technological direction and recommend best practices within ‘Provincial workforce Systems’ Portfolio and to the business clients with the goal of improving business processes and the quality of services offered. By applying fundamental theories, principles and concepts in the development, testing, implementation and support of complex technical solutions, this position ensures the business client’s needs are met. In collaboration with the business client & Technology Services, this position develops a thorough understanding of the client’s business processes, system use, and performance expectations and applies this broad-based knowledge to anticipate customer needs and identify innovative/effective solutions for the client. The position engages various groups in Technology services as needed for H/W upgrades/migrations/configurations in supporting Tier-1 applications such as e-People (PeopleSoft HCM). The incumbent will utilize strong written, oracle and interpersonal skills in a challenging customer driven, profession environment. The incumbent will work independently and/or collaboratively within the team with minimum guidance, other operational teams and vendor to ensure reliable operations of the applications with Primary support responsibilities.
Description:
Senior Performance Tunning Specialist will be Responsible for: Provide guidance in designing the application architecture for high availability and maximum reliability. Creating monitoring / alerting scripts/programs to alert support team for any problem in any layer of the application such as web domains, Application domains, Process scheduler domains etc. Escalating issues/problems to Oracle support and third parties as appropriate. Develop/Enhance custom PL/SQL packages, procedures used for proactive alerts related to LOCK conflict within the application that may cause application meltdown. Develop/Enhance custom PL/SQL packages, procedures for proactive application performance monitoring/alerting due to suboptimal application performance caused due to poor. End-to-end performance management, in-depth application/database performance analysis, doing complex problem root cause analysis, finding the problematic/suboptimal code or system configuration in complex PeopleSoft environment, advising/helping the developers and PeopleSoft Administrators in the team for/in optimizing Programs & system configuration. Load testing (directly or provide assistance) of the upgraded application during PeopleTools/Oracle RDBMS, PUMs upgrade as part of sign-off for final upgrade. Fully Capable of leading self with minimum direction from the Manager or Portfolio director. Ability to set & meet personal deadlines and adapt to changes in priority. Participate in 7*24 on-call rotation if required.
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