Sr. Database Administrator

The Senior Database Administrator leads the management, optimization, and security of enterprise data platforms across Oracle, Postgres, and MongoDB leveraging both on-premises and cloud (OCI/Azure) environments. The role includes foundational Databricks knowledge and regular use of OEM, Dynatrace for advanced database health and monitoring and query performance visualization.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, maintain and tune Oracle databases across on-prem, Exadata, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Azure cloud (including OCI Exadata Database Service), PostgreSQL and MongoDB platforms for high performance, availability, security and compliance.

• Use Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and automation tools for database lifecycle management-deployment, patching, upgrades, backup, scale, and disaster recovery-on both hardware and cloud platforms.

• Optimize and monitor high-performance OLTP and data warehousing workloads for reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for database architecture, SQL optimization, and compliance with regulatory and business requirements.

• Provision, monitor, and secure Oracle Exadata databases on OCI, Azure, and ODB@A platforms, working across VM, bare metal, and cloud-consumed infrastructure.

• Ensure business continuity by using Data Guard, Goldengate, and cloud-native backup/recovery strategies.

• Apply security controls such as hardening VM and OS environments, ensuring minimal service exposure, SSH/network controls, file encryption, and separation of administrative roles.

• Troubleshoot incidents and coordinate root-cause analysis in hybrid and multi-cloud Exadata environments.

• Automate administration, monitoring, and reporting using SQL PL/SQL, Shell and Python for routine processes to improve service reliability.

• Respond to security incidents by analyzing audit trails and logs; support investigations and forensic analysis as needed.

Minimum Requirement

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.

Critical Skills

• Deep, hands-on experience with Oracle Database (on-prem and cloud), Exadata, OEM, ODB@A, cloud automation, and scripting.

• Expert level experience in Oracle RAC/ASM administration, Data Guard, Oracle Goldengate technologies.

• Expertise in cloud lifecycles, VM technologies, backup/recovery automation, performance monitoring, and database tuning in enterprise and hybrid environments.

• Understanding compliance frameworks, auditing standards, database security products, and audit reporting.

• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills for working with technical and compliance teams.

• Working knowledge of Databricks concepts for analytics platform considerations.

Professionals in this role will ensure secure, compliant, efficient, and high-performance Oracle database operations-on-premises, on Exadata hardware, and in the cloud-while supporting the organization's regulatory, business continuity, and security objectives.

Candidates must be authorized to work in USA. Sponsorship is not available for this role.