What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Oracle Database Administrator position at Technology Ventures?
The Database Engineering team is seeking a Senior Database Engineer with strong
expertise in Oracle database administration to support business-critical, 24x7
production environments. This role is responsible for managing on-premises Oracle
databases in a fast-paced operational setting that supports both transactional and
analytical workloads.
The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience in Oracle database
administration, automation, performance tuning, troubleshooting, security, and high
availability. This individual will also play a key role in evaluating emerging database
technologies, improving operational efficiency through scripting and automation, and
supporting database tools and platforms across production and non-production
environments.
Key Responsibilities
• Provide end-to-end Oracle DBA support, including provisioning, backup and
recovery, replication, deployment, and real-time production troubleshooting.
• Install, configure, monitor, upgrade, and maintain Oracle databases across
production and non-production environments.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support production systems as needed.
• Support database deployments for test and production environments.
• Diagnose and resolve database performance issues using monitoring tools and
tuning techniques.
• Collaborate with system administrators on Linux, Unix, and virtual machine
platform issues related to databases.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for database provisioning, maintenance,
and reporting.
• Configure and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Support data replication and sharding strategies.
• Troubleshoot database production incidents and connectivity issues.
• Work independently and collaboratively with minimal supervision.
Basic Requirements
• 10 years of experience in database administration.
• Strong expertise in Oracle database administration in enterprise environments.
• Extensive experience in database performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise database best practices for large-scale
environments.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, storage technologies,
and data replication.
• Experience implementing, supporting, and auditing database security controls.
Preferred Skills
• Experience supporting on-premises Oracle environments.
• Experience migrating Oracle databases from on-premises platforms to AWS
RDS.
• Familiarity with database monitoring tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in virtualized environments such as VMware.
• Proficiency in automation using Shell, Python, and configuration management
tools such as Ansible.
• Database and cloud vendor certifications.