Senior Oracle DBA & OCI Expert — Cloud Performance Leader

Sofico; Zwijnaarde; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal vouchers

Hospitalisation insurance

Group insurance

Car or mobility budget

Hybrid working model

Flexible hours

Modern workplace

6-month onboarding track

Team events

Job summary

Sofico, based in Ghent, Belgium, is seeking a Senior DBA / OCI Expert to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of our Oracle landscape in Sofico Cloud. You will design, operate, and optimize OCI-based Oracle databases, manage Data Guard, RAC, and GoldenGate, and lead patching and lifecycle management.

From our Ghent office, you will collaborate with a team of senior database professionals and drive architectural decisions, automation, and governance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Senior Oracle DBA in large-scale production environments.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience with Oracle Exadata, Exascale Infrastructure, Base Database Services, and Autonomous Databases.
• Deep understanding of Oracle internals and performance tuning techniques.
• Expertise in AWR, ASH, SQL tuning, and capacity modelling.
• Proven experience with Oracle Data Guard, RAC, backup and recovery strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience configuring Oracle GoldenGate replication environments.
• Knowledge of OCI networking, security principles, and cloud governance.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Shell).
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and optimize Oracle database environments on OCI, including Exadata on Exascale infrastructure.
• Manage and improve Oracle Data Guard, RAC, and GoldenGate.
• Analyze incidents with root-cause analysis and implement preventative measures.
• Drive database performance via execution plans, indexing, workload tuning, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with Platform Infrastructure to manage OCI environments and Azure-OCI connectivity.
• Own backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies for Sofico Cloud.
• Plan and execute patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management with minimal impact.
• Automate tasks using IaC and scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python).
• Coordinate deployment of new customer database environments.
• Act as escalation point for database challenges across the organization.
• Contribute to governance, documentation, standards, and best practices.
• Monitor and optimize Oracle licensing usage and platform costs.

Skills

Oracle DBA

OCI

Exadata

Data Guard

RAC

GoldenGate

Terraform

Ansible

Python scripting

Cost optimization

English communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

Sofico, based in Ghent, Belgium, is seeking a Senior DBA / OCI Expert to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of our Oracle landscape in Sofico Cloud. You will design, operate, and optimize OCI-based Oracle databases, manage Data Guard, RAC, and GoldenGate, and lead patching and lifecycle management.

From our Ghent office, you will collaborate with a team of senior database professionals and drive architectural decisions, automation, and governance.