Senior Database Administrator

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A Senior Database Administrator will be responsible for managing and optimizing Oracle and PostgreSQL Server databases to ensure their reliability, availability, and performance. Here are the key aspects of the role:

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible for:

• Database Management: Install, upgrade, and maintain Oracle instances across multiple environments.
• Performance Tuning: Optimize database performance through index tuning, query optimization, and resource monitoring.
• Backup and Recovery: Design and implement robust backup strategies and disaster recovery processes.
• High Availability Solutions: Implement and manage high availability solutions such as Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, and Log Shipping.
• Monitoring: Enhance the monitoring process
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex database issues in production and non-production environments.
• Security Audits: Perform regular security audits and implement measures to protect sensitive data.
• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, IT staff, and stakeholders to improve application performance and solve database-related issues.
• Documentation: Accurately document work and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support 24x7 Operations/Production Oracle Servers in Oracle Cloud Infrastucture.

About You

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or Engineering, and at least 1 cloud Certification is a must.
• At least 8 years of hands-on experience managing DB Servers in various environments
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of Oracle Database concepts and OCI Management console functions.
• Autoscaling management and Managing monitoring alerts in OCI autonomous databases.
• Knowledge of Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle partitions and partial indexes
• Find timely performance issues using OCI Performance Hub based on ADDM and AWR reports
• Proficient in managing data in Oracle Databases with ILM and in-memory management.
• Experience in Database Administration, Configuration, Installation, Upgrading, Architecture Design, and Troubleshooting of Oracle.
• Maintained Production databases under critical industry domains.
• Oracle Migration and Upgradation
• Design and Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and release deployment activities.
• Perform maintenance, tuning, archiving, backups, replication, recovery, software upgrades, capacity planning,and optimization.
• Maintain database Standard and Security as defined at the Enterprise level. Expert understanding of role, profile, grants, and privileges, providing andsetting up DB access at a different level for different groups of users.
• Experience in investigating and remediating complex Oracle performance issues across the entire product stack.
• Meet recovery objectives RPO, RTO, and SLA's regarding the databases for DB Disaster Recovery
• Recover Oracle Autonomous database objects using flashback utilities
• Conducting root cause analysis for critical issues with problem fixes.
• Good to have exposure to automation using PostgreSQL and AWS Cloud.
• Documented Knowledge base articles and User Manual Operations guide for the database team

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What’s in it For You?

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• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

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