Senior DBA: Oracle/Cloud DB Ops & High Availability

Ericsson; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson is seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator to join the IT Operations team in the United Arab Emirates. You will manage day-to-day production support for Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, and MS SQL Server databases, including backup, patching, DR, and high availability.

You will drive optimization, monitor health and performance, and implement automation. Strong Linux/Windows experience and Oracle/OCI expertise are required; OCP or equivalent certification is preferred.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of enterprise DBA experience across Oracle and multiple DB platforms.
• Strong experience with Oracle Database and OCI, including RMAN, ASM, RAC, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on administration of PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, and MS SQL Server with replication, backup/recovery, HA/DR.
• Proficient in Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
• Good understanding of SAN/NAS storage, networking, and virtualization technologies.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools and ServiceNow/ITSM platforms.
• Scripting and automation using Shell, PowerShell, Python or equivalents.
• Oracle certification (OCP) or equivalent preferred; other DB certs are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day administration and L2/L3 production support for enterprise databases.
• Monitor health, availability, performance, capacity, replication, and storage utilization.
• Manage database configurations, users, roles, privileges, and access controls.
• Perform backup, recovery, restore, replication, and DR activities; participate in DR exercises.
• Apply patching, upgrades, maintenance, and vulnerability remediation.
• Troubleshoot performance issues including CPU, memory, I/O, locking, blocking, and query performance.
• Manage incidents, problems and changes per ITIL/ITSM processes.
• Conduct root cause analysis for major or recurring incidents and implement corrective actions.
• Support HA, clustering and replication solutions.
• Administer Oracle databases and OCI services, including connectivity, backup and ops troubleshooting.
• Develop scripts and automation for health checks, monitoring, maintenance, and routine DBA tasks.
• Maintain runbooks and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with Application, Infrastructure, Storage, Network, Security, and vendor teams.

Skills

Enterprise DBA

Oracle RMAN & RAC

Multi-DB proficiency

Linux/Unix & Windows

Scripting: Shell/PowerShell/Python

ITIL/ITSM Incident Management

OCI cloud databases

Education

Oracle certification (OCP) or equivalent

Tools

Oracle Database

OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

RMAN

ServiceNow/ITSM tools

Monitoring tools

Job description

Ericsson is seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator to join the IT Operations team in the United Arab Emirates. You will manage day-to-day production support for Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, and MS SQL Server databases, including backup, patching, DR, and high availability.

You will drive optimization, monitor health and performance, and implement automation. Strong Linux/Windows experience and Oracle/OCI expertise are required; OCP or equivalent certification is preferred.