Senior Engineer - Oracle Database Administration

About the role

The Senior Engineer will be responsible for administering, monitoring, optimizing and supporting enterprise Oracle database environments across on‑premises and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platforms. The role ensures high availability, performance, security and compliance while delivering SLA‑driven production support.

Key responsibilities

• Administer Oracle databases in production and non‑production, including OCI database services and Autonomous Database.
• Perform installations, configurations, upgrades, patching, cloning and migrations.
• Monitor availability, capacity, sessions, storage and performance using AWR, ASH, ADDM and OCI monitoring tools.
• Conduct SQL tuning, indexing and execution‑plan analysis.
• Plan, execute and validate backup, restore, recovery and disaster‑recovery procedures (RMAN, Data Guard, standby operations).
• Manage users, roles, privileges, auditing and security controls.
• Investigate incidents, perform root‑cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Support application releases, change implementations and rollback planning.
• Maintain inventories, configuration records, SOPs, runbooks and handover documentation.
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, security and vendor teams while meeting SLAs and change‑control processes.

Required profile

• Extensive experience with Oracle Database 12c, 19c or later.
• Hands‑on expertise in OCI DBA operations, including IAM, compartments, VCNs, private endpoints and security lists.
• Proven track record in performance tuning, capacity planning and high‑availability solutions.
• Strong knowledge of backup and recovery strategies (RMAN, Data Guard).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across multiple technical teams.

Required skills

• Oracle Database administration (installation, configuration, patching, upgrades).
• OCI Database Management, Monitoring, Logging, Alarms.
• SQL, PL/SQL and shell scripting.
• Performance tools: AWR, ASH, ADDM.
• Backup & recovery: RMAN, Data Guard, standby databases.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager or equivalent monitoring.
• OCI IAM, compartments, VCNs, private endpoints, NSGs/security lists.
• Experience with Oracle RAC and Exadata (preferred).