Senior Engineer - Oracle Database Administration
Key Skills for This Role
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Qualifications
- Technical Skills:
- Oracle Administration: Oracle Database 12c, 19c, or later; installation, configuration, maintenance, patching, and upgrades. Including OCI database services, Autonomous Database, database monitoring, performance management, backup and recovery, scaling, and troubleshooting of OCI-hosted Oracle databases.
- Performance and Capacity: SQL tuning, indexing, execution plans, AWR, ASH, ADDM, storage, tablespace, and capacity management.
- Backup and Recovery: RMAN backup, restore and recovery; recovery validation and operational runbooks.
- High Availability and DR: Oracle Data Guard, standby database operations, switchover/failover support, and replication awareness.
- Security Administration: User, role and privilege management; auditing, hardening, access review, and security compliance support.
- Monitoring and Support: Oracle Enterprise Manager or equivalent monitoring, alert handling, incident resolution, RCA, and SLA-based support.
- Scripting and Documentation: SQL, PL/SQL and shell scripting awareness; 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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, s
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