Principal Database administrator:

Senior Database Administrator will be part of the Oracle Cloud Operations team and will be responsible for the 24/7/365 support of fast pace the production hosted environments.

• Must be customer-centric, goal-oriented, self-directed and have the ability to handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously with an unwavering dedication to operational excellence.
• Must be a motivated, team-player with the ability to work cross functionally with a “can-do” and “do-it-right” attitude and willingness to mentor other DBAs.
• Must be a self-starter and constantly thinking a way to improve the work.

 

 

This position’s responsibilities

• Participate 24x7 on call support on a weekly rotating schedule
• Responsible for performance, capacity planning and HA solution
• Evaluate new database features and make recommendations
• Develop complex Database administration automation and monitoring scripts
• Monitor and troubleshoot MySQL and Oracle Database performance
• Share knowledge and mentor other DBAs as needed
• Develop and maintenance Standard Operating Procedures for DBA tasks and projects
• Deploy new Sass database
• Perform database upgrades and database account migrations
• Periodically perform backup/recovery to validate the backup/recover procedures
• Provide escalation support for database related issues
• Provide technical and business guidance for complex user problems
• Provide design assistance to Engineering department for new and existing releases
• Attend weekly Production Support team meetings and participate team building activities.
• Other duties, as assigned

 

Key Requirements include:

 

• BS in a computer science
• Work on 24x7 production support environment
• Must have 10 years of extensive database management experience
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong troubleshooting skills and able to reverse engineer process and scripts
• Ability to commit and deliver measure result with tight projects and task timeline
• Agile Scrum Experience
• AWS and Azure experience is plus

 

 

Key Technical Skills:

• Expert experience on Oracle database 11g, 12c,18c,19c RAC Performance tuning on Solaris and Linux
• Expert understanding of Oracle Database best practices and internal
• Good knowledge of Oracle RMAN and other backup and recovery scenarios
• Expert experience in scripting language (ANT, Unix shell, perl, Python..etc)
• Expert experience on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• Proficiency at programming in at least one major programming language (Java, C, C++, C#)
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize SaaS customer SQL
• HA MySQL with master/slave replication

 

Work with a world class team to provide enterprise-wide, Oracle Database Administration support for production systems and provide DBA services to application development teams, including database design, database generation, coding, and database production support. Provide DBA support with a high degree of customer service, technical expertise, and timeliness. Provide accurate and creative solutions to user problems of moderate nature to ensure user productivity.

As a Senior Database Administrator, you are instrumental in researching, evaluating, designing, testing, recommending, and planning implementation of new versions of Oracle database and database tools. May act as a team lead during database implementations and for system operation and maintenance.

Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. 8 years of experience supporting relational databases as a DBA, with multiple distributed relational DBSM*s or a depth and focus in Oracle and related tools. Success at using the DBMS to optimize performance of large databases for enterprise use is greatly preferred. Experience with an organization with a key 24 X 7 reliance on its database is desirable. BS or equivalent desired.