What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Oracle Database Administrator position at CGI?
Position Description
CGI has an immediate need for a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment supporting one of the non-profit organizations that collects, verifies, and maintains student enrollment and degree data for educational institutions.
The Senior Oracle Database Administrator will be responsible for supporting software development teams within agile-driven environment. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise database platforms, including Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB, and SQL-based databases. This role ensures the availability, performance, security, and integrity of mission-critical data systems across cloud environments. The Sr. DBA serves as a technical leader, partnering with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to support complex, high-availability platforms and drive database best practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
This position is located in our Lafayette, LA or Knoxville, TN office or Fairfax, VA; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Other Information:
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $80,600.00 - $267,800.00.
CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics to the extent required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws where we do business.
CGI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job in the U.S., please email the CGI U.S. Employment Compliance mailbox at US_Employment_Compliance@cgi.com. You will need to reference the Position ID of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a Position ID will not be returned.
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All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary dependent upon specific assignment and/or level of US government security clearance held. Dependent upon role and/or federal government security clearance requirements, and in accordance with applicable laws, some background investigations may include a credit check. CGI will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records in accordance with all local regulations and ordinances.
CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.
CGI has an immediate need for a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment supporting one of the non-profit organizations that collects, verifies, and maintains student enrollment and degree data for educational institutions.
The Senior Oracle Database Administrator will be responsible for supporting software development teams within agile-driven environment. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise database platforms, including Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB, and SQL-based databases. This role ensures the availability, performance, security, and integrity of mission-critical data systems across cloud environments. The Sr. DBA serves as a technical leader, partnering with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to support complex, high-availability platforms and drive database best practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
This position is located in our Lafayette, LA or Knoxville, TN office or Fairfax, VA; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Support Agile development teams by designing, administering, and optimizing Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB, and SQL databases.
- Ensure database availability, performance, security, and data integrity across cloud environments.
- Oversee database installations, upgrades, patching, and configuration management.
- Implement and maintain backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies for mission‑critical systems.
- Lead performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategy, and capacity planning
- Architect and manage high‑availability database solutions including clustering, Real application clusters (RAC), Data Guard, and cloud‑native (high availability) HA options.
- Participate in Disaster recovery (DR) exercises and ensure database platforms meet business continuity requirements.
- Administer cloud‑based database services, storage architectures, networking configurations, and cloud security controls.
- Implement automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code for cloud database environments.
- Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, and security teams to support complex, high‑availability systems and application releases.
- Provide technical leadership during incidents, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term remediation planning.
- Develop automation for database provisioning, patching, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Implement observability and alerting strategies to proactively identify performance issues.
- Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks.
- Guide engineers on database standards, best practices, and operational improvements.
- Recent experience with Real application clusters (RAC), DataGuard, Exadata, or OCI cloud‑managed database platforms.
- 7 years of enterprise database administration experience
- Strong experience with Oracle 19c and SQL-based databases
- Recent hands-on experience supporting OCI cloud and hybrid database platforms (AWS, Azure)
- Expertise in performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Experience with database security, backup, replication, and compliance
- Proficiency in automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (SQL, Bash)
- Solid Linux/Unix knowledge
- Solid understanding of System Global Area (SGA) and its relationship to database sizing, tuning, performance optimization, etc.
- Hands-on expertise with oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and grid infrastructure, leveraging Oracle's database-aware storage architecture to support highly available, scalable RAC, Exadata, and cloud-hosted Oracle platforms.
- Recent experience working in Agile, cross-functional teams.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
- Experience in automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience administering AWS Redshift and Postgres databases.
Other Information:
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $80,600.00 - $267,800.00.
CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive insurance options
- Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
- Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Paid parental leave
- Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
- Wellness and Well-being programs
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics to the extent required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws where we do business.
CGI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job in the U.S., please email the CGI U.S. Employment Compliance mailbox at US_Employment_Compliance@cgi.com. You will need to reference the Position ID of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a Position ID will not be returned.
We make it easy to translate military experience and skills! Click here to be directed to our site that is dedicated to veterans and transitioning service members.
All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary dependent upon specific assignment and/or level of US government security clearance held. Dependent upon role and/or federal government security clearance requirements, and in accordance with applicable laws, some background investigations may include a credit check. CGI will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records in accordance with all local regulations and ordinances.
CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.