Senior Database Administrator
Role Overview
The Senior Database Administrator will manage mission-critical Oracle environments, including high-volume OLTP and Data Warehouse platforms.
The role requires independent troubleshooting, database architecture knowledge, and hands-on enterprise production experience.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Senior Database Administrator will manage mission-critical Oracle environments, including high-volume OLTP and Data Warehouse platforms.
The role requires independent troubleshooting, database architecture knowledge, and hands-on enterprise production experience.
Key responsibilities
- Administer Oracle databases, RAC, ASM, RMAN, and Data Guard using Broker.
- Monitor, diagnose, and tune database, SQL, and system performance across high-volume OLTP and Data Warehouse environments.
- Resolve complex production issues, restore service, identify root causes, and implement preventive actions.
- Manage Flashback, partitioning, indexes, tables, statistics, and database maintenance.
- Perform patching, upgrades, migrations, backups, recovery, and disaster recovery validation.
- Automate recurring DBA work using Shell, SQL, PL/SQL, or relevant automation tools.
- Review architecture and recommend availability, scalability, resilience, and performance improvements.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and engineering teams during incidents, changes, and planned maintenance.
Required skills and experience
- At least 10 years of Oracle Database Administration experience in large enterprise production environments.
- Hands-on Oracle RAC, Data Guard Broker, Flashback, RMAN, ASM, and Oracle Enterprise Manager experience.
- Advanced tuning skills using AWR, ASH, ADDM, execution plans, and wait-event analysis.
- Experience with high-volume OLTP and large Data Warehouse databases.
- Strong understanding of Oracle architecture, internals, high availability, and recovery.
- Expertise in partitioning, indexing, table maintenance, statistics, and space management.
- Experience with Oracle patching, automation, and technical root cause analysis.
- Able to own issues end to end and resolve them independently with minimal supervision.
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