Oracle Cloud Administrator - Senior

Position Description

Nexlogica is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Oracle Cloud Administrator to join a great team. As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing organization’s Oracle databases hosted on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. You will play a critical role in ensuring the performance, availability, and security of our database systems, as well as providing guidance and mentorship to junior database administrators.

Skills Required

• Possess knowledge and experience in analysis and development of conceptual and detail designs for DB systems in OCI.
• Possess effective communication skills to collaborate with customer departments across LA County and project stakeholders.
• Ability to develop detailed project documents with project requirements and timelines.
• Ability to develop and share detailed technical knowledge and documentation to build, support, maintain, and troubleshoot Oracle DB systems in OCI.
• Skilled in Oracle DB performance tuning in OCI.
• Skilled in developing automation scripts for routine DB maintenance jobs using tools such as Unix Shell scripting, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Committed to provide knowledge transfer to DB support staff on processes and procedures developed.

Experience

• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in systems development, analysis, Oracle database system management and support.
• At least three (3) years of recent Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) work experience required.
• Senior level experience in the following areas:
• Oracle database upgrades from versions 12c to 19c and above;
• building and configuring new Oracle DBs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI);
• planning, deploying, managing Oracle Security Patches for DBs in OCI;
• configuring and deploying Oracle Grid architecture;
• migrating Oracle database systems from on premise Linux, Unix to OCI;
• Oracle replication methods such as Data Guard;
• developing automation scripts using Shell scripting, Python, CLI, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.;
• DevOps tool;
• designing Oracle database backups, restores, disaster recovery processes;
• Oracle Enterprise Manager; configuring and managing Oracle RAC;
• documentation on processes used and developed for knowledge transfer to support staff.

Education Required

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field.
• Oracle database certifications, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certifications, or other public Cloud certifications.

Additional Information

• A Hybrid telework option will be determined on case-by-case basis. Candidate will need to provide their own computing device (desktop/laptop with video capability) to securely connect to the county network.
• Approximately 3-hours of overtime per month may be required.