About the Role
This role involves administering, monitoring, optimizing, and supporting enterprise Oracle database environments across both on-premises and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platforms. The focus is on ensuring database availability, performance, backup and recovery, security, and effective operational readiness, in addition to supporting SLA-driven production environments.
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Responsibilities
- Administer Oracle databases across production and non-production environments.
- Knowledge of OCI Database Management, Monitoring, Logging, and Alarms.
- Understanding of OCI IAM, compartments, VCNs, private endpoints, NSGs/security lists, and cloud connectivity.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DBA operations.
- Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, cloning, and migration activities.
- Monitor database availability, capacity, sessions, storage, jobs, and performance indicators.
- Undertake SQL and database performance analysis using appropriate diagnostic reports and tuning techniques.
- Plan, execute, and validate backup, restore, recovery, and disaster-recovery procedures.
- Manage database users, roles, privileges, auditing, and access controls in line with approved security requirements.
- Investigate incidents, identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and contribute to problem management.
- Support application releases, deployment validation, change implementation, and rollback planning.
- Maintain database inventories, configuration records, SOPs, recovery runbooks, known-error records, and operational handover documents.
- Coordinate with application, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams while meeting agreed SLAs and change controls.
Qualifications
Technical Skills:
- Oracle Administration: Experience with Oracle Database 12c, 19c, or later; including installation, configuration, maintenance, patching, and upgrades. Proficiency in OCI database services, Autonomous Database, database monitoring, performance management, backup and recovery, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Performance and Capacity: Knowledge in SQL tuning, indexing, execution plans, AWR, ASH, ADDM, storage, tablespace, and capacity management.
- Backup and Recovery: Familiarity with RMAN backup, restore and recovery; recovery validation and operational runbooks.
- High Availability and DR: Expertise in Oracle Data Guard, standby database operations, switchover/failover support, and replication awareness.
- Security Administration: Skills in user, role and privilege management; auditing, hardening, access review, and compliance support.
- Monitoring and Support: Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager or equivalent monitoring tools, alert handling, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and SLA-based support.
- Scripting and Documentation: Knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL, and shell scripting; familiarity with SOPs, configuration records, and technical handover documentation.
Good to Have:
- Experience with Oracle RAC and clustered database environments.
- Exposure to Oracle Exadata or engineered systems.
- Experience with cloud-hosted Oracle database services.
- ITIL-aligned production support and change management experience.
Education:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Soft Skills:
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication and documentation abilities.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across technical and service-management teams.
- Customer-focused mindset with disciplined ownership of incidents, requests, and operational commitments.
