Preferred Qualifications
KEY OBJECTIVE
The key objective of this role is to support and operate database cloud services for Oracle’s industry customers. This is an outstanding and unique opportunity for an experienced Oracle DBA to join Oracle’s industry-leading Cloud Foundation Services (CFS) global organization and take your career to the next level. In this role you will gain new skills and experience by training on and working with the latest and most advanced cloud and database technologies. In addition you will gain new skills and perspectives by practicing DevOps within Oracle.
Cloud Foundation Services offers a portfolio of services including the Micro-Services Platform (MSP), Operations Stack (OST), Database as a Service (DBaaS), and Software Delivery as a Service (SDaaS) pipeline to support high margin, highly elastic, and highly available SaaS applications running on Oracle’s next generation cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). OCI is a set of complementary cloud services that enables customers to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment in Oracle’s globally distributed data centers. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers high-performance compute capabilities (as physical hardware instances) and storage capacity in a flexible overlay virtual network that is securely accessible from customers on-premises network. For more information visit ***** .
Cloud Foundation Services provides mission-critical cloud services for the Oracle Global Business Units (GBUs). The GBUs are dedicated vertical organizations with deep domain industry expertise that provide best-of-breed technologies to help solve the most complex business problems for Oracle’s industry customers located around the world. The GBU industry verticals include Retail, Hospitality, Food & Beverage, Communications, Health Sciences, Financial Services, Construction & Engineering, and Utilities business sectors, with each operating mission-critical applications that require 24x7 support. For more information visit ***** .
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibilities include:
* Provide escalation support for database related issues
* Alert and diagnostic monitoring
* Work closely with Product Development teams and provide feedback to improve product quality
* Develop administration automation and monitoring scripts as needed
* Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures/documentation
* Share knowledge with team members as needed
* Attend weekly team meetings and participate in team building activities
* Other duties, as assigned
* Participate 24x7 on call support on a monthly rotating schedule for weekends in a Follow the Sun organization.
This role includes variable work patterns and there will be a requirement for flexibility of hours in order to support varying business requirements. Start and end times will vary depending on business need. We will consult with you should the need arise to change your work pattern. In addition to weekdays, you may need to work weekend shifts / overtime and an occasional Public Holiday, on a rotational basis. Appropriate compensation is provided for this work.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
* Must be a motivated, team-player with the ability to work cross functionally with a “can-do” and “do-it-right” attitude, a self-starter, and constantly thinking of ways to improve the work.
* Experience with Oracle database 12c, 18c, 19c, RAC, ASM, Data Guard, Golden Gate, and performance tuning with Enterprise Manager for monitoring and administering mission critical databases.
* Experience in Oracle SQL/PLSQL.
* Experience with database backup and recovery.
* Experience with database patching and upgrades.
* Experience with Oracle’s Maximum Security Architecture is preferred.
* Experience administering databases on Exadata is a strong plus.
* Experience in any Unix shell script, Perl script, or Python. Experience with Ansible is a plus.
* Strong troubleshooting skills to investigate errors and performance bottlenecks
* 4+ years of experience supporting relational databases as a DBA, with a focus in Oracle and related tools, with strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.
* Experience with an organization with a key 24x7 reliance on its databases is preferred.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferred.
* Verifiable Oracle certifications in Oracle Database are required.
