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.

Career Level – IC4

**Principal Database administrator:**

SRE DevSecOps Senior Database Administrator and Engineer 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 DevSecOps 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.
Must be expert level for automation of DB management
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**This position’s responsibilities**

* Participate 24×7 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 with **shell and python**
* 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
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**Key Requirements include:**

* BS in a computer science
* Work on 24×7 production support environment
* Must have **10 years** of extensive database management experience
* Must have **10 years** or more automation experience using **shell and python**
* Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
* Excellent written and verbal communication
* Strong troubleshooting skills and able to reverse engineer process and automation skill set
* Ability to commit and deliver measure result with tight projects and task timeline
* Agile Scrum Experience
* CI/CD deployment a plus
Good knowledge of API Restful call a plus
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**Key Technical Skills:**

* Expert experience on Oracle database 11g, 12c,18c,19c RAC Performance tuning
* 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, etc)
* Proficiency at programming in at least one major programming language (Python, Java, C, C++, C#)
* Expert experience on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
* Ability to troubleshoot and optimize SaaS customer SQL