Oracle Database Administrator

About the Company

Oracle is a global leader in enterprise technology, helping organizations run, secure, and transform their business-critical systems through innovative cloud, database, infrastructure, and application solutions. This role sits within a technical services or operations-focused team responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, reliability, and security of Oracle database environments. The team supports mission-critical customer systems across on-premises, engineered systems, and cloud platforms, enabling business continuity through proactive administration, automation, performance optimization, and high-availability solutions.

About the Role

As an Oracle Database Administrator, you will be responsible for administering, maintaining, and optimizing Oracle database environments across complex enterprise landscapes. The role requires strong hands-on experience in core database administration, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, ASM, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and migrations. You will support high-availability database platforms, troubleshoot production issues, execute planned maintenance activities, and contribute to automation and modernization initiatives. The role requires willingness to work in rotational shifts and support weekend activities as needed.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Oracle database environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, performance, and security.
• Manage Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, backup, recovery, patching, upgrades, and migration activities across enterprise systems.
• Perform performance tuning, capacity analysis, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for database and application-related issues.
• Support database high-availability and disaster recovery configurations, including monitoring, failover readiness, and operational validation.
• Execute database patching, upgrade, migration, and maintenance activities with minimal business disruption.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and support teams to resolve incidents and deliver operational improvements.
• Provide support for Oracle engineered systems such as Exadata, including basic administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to automation and DevOps initiatives to improve operational efficiency, repeatability, and service quality.

Qualifications

Mandatory

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in Oracle Database Administration.
• Strong experience with Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Proven expertise in database performance tuning, troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
• Experience managing production Oracle database environments in enterprise or customer-facing support settings.
• Strong understanding of database monitoring, incident management, problem management, and operational best practices.
• Ability to work independently across IC2 to IC4-level responsibilities, depending on experience and technical depth.
• Willingness to work in rotational shifts and provide weekend support as required.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.

Good-to-Have

• Exposure to Oracle GoldenGate for replication, data movement, or migration use cases.
• Experience or working exposure to Oracle Engineered Systems, especially Exadata.
• Awareness or hands-on exposure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Exadata Cloud Service, or Exadata Cloud@Customer.
• Experience with DevOps practices, scripting, automation, or infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Familiarity with automation tools or scripting languages such as Shell, Python, Ansible, or related technologies.

Self-Assessment Questions

• Do I have at least 5 years of hands-on experience administering Oracle databases in production environments?
• Have I worked extensively on Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and migrations?
• Can I independently troubleshoot database performance, availability, backup, recovery, and high-availability issues?
• Am I comfortable supporting rotational shifts, weekend maintenance, and business-critical production systems?
• Do I have exposure to Exadata, GoldenGate, Oracle Cloud, or automation practices that can add value to this role?