Principal Database Administrator

About the role

The role focuses on day-to-day DBA support, production troubleshooting, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and high availability. It involves working with the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas.

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and optimize mission-critical Oracle database environments.
• Ensure database availability, performance, security, and recoverability across on-premises and/or cloud-based systems.
• Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture.
• Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio.
• Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack.
• Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles.
• Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.
• Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems.

Requirements

This Position will require being available for Shifts and Weekends.

Qualifications

• Must Possess U.S. CITIZENSHIP and an ACTIVE TS/SCI W/POLY SECURITY CLEARANCE To Be Eligible for Consideration.
• Willing to workShifts and Weekends.
• Strong experience with Oracle Database (11g/12c/19c or later).
• Expertise in RMAN backup and recovery, including restore and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Solid Linux/Unix administration skills (RHEL, Oracle Linux).
• Shell scripting (Bash).
• System performance tools (top, vmstat, iostat).
• Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills.
• Experience with performance tuning (AWR, ASH, execution plans).
• Knowledge of Oracle architecture (SGA, PGA, redo/undo, etc.).
• Experience with database patching and upgrades.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.