Senior Oracle Database Administrator
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Provide database administration for mission-critical production environments using both Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server.
The role requires 8+ years of hands-on DBA experience across administration, tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, security, and production support.
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Role Overview
Provide database administration for mission-critical production environments using both Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server.
The role requires 8+ years of hands-on DBA experience across administration, tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, security, and production support.
Database Administration
- Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server environments.
- Administer users, roles, privileges, tablespaces, datafiles, schemas, indexes, and database objects.
- Perform database upgrades, migrations, patching, refreshes, cloning, and environment synchronization.
Performance and Monitoring
- Monitor and troubleshoot database performance and identify bottlenecks.
- Perform SQL, query, and database performance tuning using relevant Oracle and SQL Server tools.
- Monitor health, capacity, storage, sessions, locks, jobs, and alerts and resolve issues proactively.
Backup, Recovery, and High Availability
- Manage Oracle RMAN, Data Pump, SQL*Loader, and SQL Server backup and restore operations.
- Implement and support Oracle Data Guard, RAC, SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, replication, log shipping, and database mirroring.
- Maintain disaster recovery procedures and runbooks.
Production Support and Security
- Handle production incidents, root-cause analysis, problem management, and change activities within defined SLAs.
- Implement database security, access controls, auditing, and compliance standards.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, development, and cloud teams to resolve database-related issues.
Documentation
- Develop and maintain database monitoring, maintenance, backup, and recovery procedures.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and disaster recovery runbooks.
Required Technical Experience
- At least 8 years of hands-on database administration experience is required.
- Strong hands-on expertise in both Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server is required.
- Experience with production support, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, and database security is required.
- Oracle experience includes 11g, 12c, 18c, 19c or higher, RMAN, Data Pump, SQL*Loader, RAC, Data Guard, AWR/ASH, and maintenance activities.
- SQL Server experience includes versions 2012 through 2022, T-SQL, query optimization, Always On, clustering, replication, log shipping, backup, restore, and recovery.
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