Database Administrator

About the role

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities, producing, managing, and delivering energy and commodities to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $13+ billion invested in long-term assets. Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies, and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from some 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2025 were $343bn.

Responsibilities

• Deploy new releases of in-house CTRM and Analytics applications
• Develop the database environment with respect to data replication/synchronization solutions, hardware environment, database schema definition, and design to ensure high availability, stability, and reliability of the main CTRM and analytics applications used within Vitol Group worldwide
• Ensure deployment and support of Oracle middleware products and Unix database environment (servers and storage), Oracle Unix servers/storage, OS Solaris 11, and NetApp storage
• Monitor databases and proprietary applications, including Oracle 18c / 19c / 21c; work with Data Guard, PDB-CDB, RMAN, and performance tools
• Perform maintenance (upgrade, patching, installation) on software and hardware
• Manage and perform ad hoc projects
• Support and interact in a worldwide context with infrastructure, security, network, and application teams
• Resolve requests from users

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and 5 years of experience as an Oracle database administrator.

5 years of experience to include:

• Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting in the course of database administration
• Use SQL and PL/SQL to troubleshoot issues, review code design, and tune SQL queries
• Manage database security, user access, and database objects, and support day-to-day production database operations

3 years of experience to include:

• Support Oracle enterprise products, including Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Recovery Manager (RMAN), and multitenant architecture (PDB/CDB) in Oracle 18c, 19c, and 21c environments
• Support Linux and Unix-based Oracle hosting environments in standalone, clustered, and high-availability configurations, including server administration, storage, patching, and performance tuning
• Deploy and support Oracle databases and Oracle middleware products, including Oracle Forms and Reports Application Server
• Support and administer PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other similar relational database environments
• Support HPE infrastructure
• Configure and support Oracle Unified Directory
• Monitor and manage databases and Unix infrastructure in a worldwide environment
• Support infrastructure, security, network, and application teams in a global environment

Additional Information

Worksite: 3425 West Alabama Street, Houston, TX 77027; 40 hours/week. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.