Consultant | Database Administration | Exadata

Vendor Rate: *** USD per hour

Minimum years of experience: 8 Years

Interview format: Skype, WebEx, or MS Teams (remote)

Work location: Hybrid (Texas City, TX 77591 hub)

Relocation candidates considered; Visa-independent candidates only.

About the role

Hands-on Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC) patching and maintenance lead. Responsibilities include planning, coordinating, and executing patching cycles across ExaCC databases and infrastructure while ensuring system availability, performance, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and execute ExaCC patching lifecycle (compute nodes, DomU VMs, Grid Infrastructure, and Databases).
• Plan, schedule, and execute OCI patching cycles across ExaCC infrastructure and DomU OS images, compute OS instances.
• Use OCI console, CLI, and REST APIs to apply, rollback, and monitor patches.
• Automate patching workflows using Terraform and Ansible.
• Manage Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) patching, including GRID and RDBMS, both in-place and out-of-place, ensuring high availability.
• Integrate and manage patching operations using LCM Fleet operations with OEM, including gold image creation and deployment.
• Perform database patching in RAC and Data Guard-enabled environments.
• Administer and troubleshoot Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management).
• Plan, schedule, and execute quarterly PSU/CPU, third-party, and one-off patches with minimal downtime.
• Perform patch impact assessments, risk evaluations, and rollback strategies.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cybersecurity teams to coordinate patch cycles.
• Maintain documentation of patching procedures, schedules, and standards.
• Troubleshoot patch-related issues, database failures, and post-patch anomalies; provide RCA with remediation.
• Drive process improvements to reduce downtime, manual errors, and patching cycle times.
• Investigate and remediate non-patch-related vulnerabilities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC) patching and maintenance.
• Strong expertise in OCI patch automation, Oracle RAC patching, and LCM Fleet operations for patch management.
• Proven experience in planning, coordinating, and executing patching cycles across ExaCC databases and infrastructure.
• Ability to manage and implement Security Patches, PSU/CPU updates, and critical Oracle fixes.
• Strong understanding of Oracle infrastructure administration, patch governance, and operational best practices.