16 days ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$81k - $187k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate and improve Oracle Database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup and recovery, and production readiness.
- Configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain Oracle GoldenGate replication while resolving replication issues during the onboarding of additional sites.
- Diagnose production database incidents, participate in root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
- Develop SQL/PL-SQL scripts, operational health checks, and database automation to reduce manual work and operational risk.
- Maintain runbooks, monitoring, alerting, escalation procedures, operational documentation, and service-health reporting.
- Contribute to database migrations, upgrades, performance tuning, capacity planning, and modernization initiatives involving OCI, Exadata, and Autonomous Database.
- Use version control and repeatable change practices for database and automation changes.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, cloud operations, Customer Success, and engineering teams on reliability and production readiness.
- Use AI-assisted tools and automation for troubleshooting, knowledge discovery, health checks, runbooks, and operational reporting within security and change-control requirements.
- Own assigned technical work from planning through implementation, testing, documentation, and operational handoff.
- Participate in technical reviews and share knowledge with teammates.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of relevant hands-on Oracle Database administration experience supporting business-critical production services.
- Hands-on Oracle GoldenGate experience supporting, monitoring, and troubleshooting production replication.
- Proficiency in SQL/PL-SQL for database troubleshooting, operational tasks, and scripting.
- Experience with database availability, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and production incident resolution.
- Experience using Git or equivalent version control and familiarity with repeatable deployment and change workflows.
- Strong troubleshooting, technical judgment, communication, documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM, RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, OCI, Exadata, ExaCC, ExaCS, Oracle Autonomous Database, or other cloud database environments.
- Preferred Unix/Linux administration and scripting experience with Shell, Python, or Perl.
- Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation or orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and experience with observability, alerting, capacity models, SLIs/SLOs, or service-health reporting are preferred.
- Preferred experience building API-driven automation, internal tools, self-service workflows, or AI-assisted operations involving LLMs, retrieval-based knowledge systems, agent-based workflows, or MCP/API integrations.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated environments, or customer-facing enterprise platforms is preferred.
Benefits
- Oracle offers medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
- Benefits include short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D, supplemental life insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
- The package includes pre-tax commuter and parking benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off, and 11 paid holidays.
- Eligible employees receive paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
- Additional benefits include an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial planning, group legal benefits, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
- The role is subject to Oracle’s US onboarding identity-verification process, including biometric information collection, with accommodations potentially available following an individualized assessment.
Categories
Site Reliability
About Oracle
Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.