Senior DBA — Oracle/OCI & Enterprise DB Ops

Ericsson GmbH

Dubai

On-site

AED 200,000 - 320,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Ericsson UAE in Dubai seeks an experienced Senior Database Administrator to oversee day-to-day admin, availability, and performance of enterprise databases across Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, MS SQL Server, and OCI.

You will patch, back up, restore, and DR exercise; support HA/DR and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable operations.

Join a team focused on operational excellence and continuous improvement in a telecoms environment.

Qualifications

8+ years of enterprise DBA experience across Oracle and multiple platforms.
Strong Oracle Database and OCI skills including RMAN, ASM, RAC, performance tuning, patching, and OCI database services.
Hands-on administration experience with PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server, including replication, backup/recovery, HA/DR, and performance tuning.
Proficiency 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 equivalent.

Responsibilities

Perform day‑to‑day administration and L2/L3 production support for enterprise databases.
Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, replication, and storage utilization.
Manage database configurations, users, roles, privileges, and access controls.
Perform backup, recovery, restore, replication, and disaster recovery activities; participate in DR exercises.
Execute database 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 incidents and implement corrective actions.
Support high-availability, clustering, and replication solutions.
Administer and support Oracle databases and OCI services including connectivity and monitoring.
Develop scripts and automation for health checks and routine DBA tasks.
Maintain runbooks and technical documentation.
Collaborate with Application, Infrastructure, Storage, Network, Security, and vendor teams.