2 months ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Own Oracle platform architecture, provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, maintenance, and decommissioning across on-premise and hybrid environments.
- Diagnose and resolve database performance issues using query optimization, indexing, database diagnostics, and system evidence.
- Operate and improve backup, restore, replication, high-availability, failover, and disaster-recovery capabilities, including RPO and RTO testing.
- Automate provisioning, access, maintenance, validation, and recovery workflows using scripting, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD.
- Support and standardize PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Solr platforms.
- Lead database migrations, version upgrades, schema changes, data movement, splits, consolidations, and low-risk cutovers.
- Establish dashboards, alerts, baselines, service-level objectives, least-privilege controls, secrets management, encryption, auditing, vulnerability controls, and patch controls.
- Support incidents, lead root-cause analysis and problem management, reduce operational toil, and partner with Linux, storage, network, security, and application teams.
Requirements
- Substantial hands-on experience operating Oracle databases in business-critical production environments at a platform, database engineering, or senior DBA level.
- Strong Oracle architecture and lifecycle knowledge covering high availability, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance.
- Ability to diagnose complex Oracle performance problems and clearly communicate findings.
- Production experience with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or an equivalent search/indexing technology.
- Strong Linux fundamentals, particularly RHEL, including storage, filesystems, networking, process and memory behavior, and I/O troubleshooting.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or another suitable systems language, with automation experience using Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.
- Experience with Git-based change control, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, operational documentation, and safe production change.
- Experience with incident response, root-cause analysis, recovery testing, continuous improvement, and communication with engineering teams.
- Preferred experience includes Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN, Enterprise Manager, CDB/PDB architecture, Data Pump, AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL Tuning, PostgreSQL replication and high availability, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr cluster operations, Kubernetes or OpenShift stateful services, enterprise storage, secrets management, cloud data services, and regulated or audited environments.
- Years of experience are presented as a guide, and candidates who can demonstrate the necessary skills may be considered.
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