Oracle Cloud Infra Admin-Oracle - SQL Server DBA-Senior

EY; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

EY Global Delivery Services is hiring an Oracle and SQL Server Database Administrator in Chennai to support large-scale enterprise databases. The role focuses on high availability, performance tuning, upgrades, migrations, and disaster recovery in a global delivery environment.

You will leverage advanced Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server administration skills to deliver secure, scalable database solutions, collaborating with global stakeholders on modernization initiatives and migration projects.

Qualifications

• Oracle DBA expertise across versions (11g–21c)
• SQL Server DBA expertise across versions (2008–2022)
• Cross-platform migrations and heterogeneous migrations

Responsibilities

• Oversee Oracle and SQL Server database administration activities and identify opportunities for performance, scalability, and availability improvements.
• Accountable for ensuring database standards, operational procedures, and governance policies are followed across enterprise environments.
• Act as the first-level technical escalation point for Oracle and SQL Server related incidents and production issues.
• Perform and support end-to-end database migrations across platforms, including Oracle to Oracle, SQL Server to SQL Server, and Oracle to SQL Server migration projects.
• Lead technical assessments, solution design, migration planning, and implementation activities.
• Manage database backup and recovery strategies, disaster recovery solutions, and high-availability architectures.
• Support database performance tuning, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring activities.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, and project teams during database upgrade and migration initiatives.
• Ensure database configurations, operational guidelines, and technical documentation are maintained and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Perform technical reviews and implement corrective actions to improve database reliability and operational efficiency.
• Identify at-risk database environments and proactively mitigate operational and migration-related risks.

Skills

Oracle DBA

SQL Server DBA

Oracle RAC

RMAN Backup

Data Guard

Always On

Performance Tuning

Linux Admin

Windows Admin

Job description

Job Description:

At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

EY GDS - Oracle and SQL Server DBA

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We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

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About Global Delivery Services

Global Delivery Services refers to EY's worldwide network of service delivery centers. The GDS team plays an important role in EY’s strategy by ensuring effective support to EY’s growth agenda.

Our journey started in 2002 with approximately 200 people. Today we stand at 80,000+ professionals in ten locations around the world. We operate in Argentina, China, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Client service is focused on providing Consulting, Assurance, Tax, Strategy & Transactions, and Knowledge support to our clients around the world. The teams enable account teams worldwide to provide seamless, high-quality, value-added support, helping deliver exceptional client service.

Enablement Services provides cost-effective, high-skilled, and innovative services to support EY’s global and local enablement teams. Markets, BMC, AWS, Finance and Accounting, Risk Management, Procurement, People Shared Services, IT Service Delivery and IT Global Infrastructure services, are among the services offered by Enablement Services.

Our innovation specialists serve the GDS Client Service and Enablement Services teams, along with Service Lines, Core Business Services and Sectors. The team brings the desired environment, technologies and skilled teams together for facilitation, rapid prototyping and innovative thinking. The competencies offered include analytics, digital, user experience, mobile technology, infrastructure, Microsoft technologies and open innovation.

The Opportunity

Over the last decade, enterprise application modernization, database consolidation, and platform transformation have become critical to ensuring scalability, availability, performance, and business continuity for global organizations. To support this evolving technology landscape, EY leverages deep expertise in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database technologies, automation-driven administration, and migration best practices to deliver secure, high-performance, and resilient database platforms for mission-critical business applications.

As part of our global EY GDS team, you will work as an Oracle and SQL Server Database Administrator, supporting large-scale enterprise database environments across multiple platforms. You will be involved in solving complex technical challenges, including database migrations, upgrades, high availability implementations, disaster recovery solutions, and performance optimization, while contributing to the modernization and transformation of enterprise database environments in a collaborative, international delivery environment.

We are offering you a challenging and rewarding role. You will use your advanced expertise in Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server Administration to deliver secure, scalable, high-availability database solutions supporting critical business applications. This position provides opportunities to collaborate with global stakeholders while supporting large-scale database transformation, modernization, migration, and operational excellence initiatives.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Oversee Oracle and SQL Server database administration activities and identify opportunities for performance, scalability, and availability improvements.
• Accountable for ensuring database standards, operational procedures, and governance policies are followed across enterprise environments.
• Act as the first-level technical escalation point for Oracle and SQL Server related incidents and production issues.
• Perform and support end-to-end database migrations across platforms, including Oracle to Oracle, SQL Server to SQL Server, and Oracle to SQL Server migration projects.
• Lead technical assessments, solution design, migration planning, and implementation activities.
• Manage database backup and recovery strategies, disaster recovery solutions, and high-availability architectures.
• Support database performance tuning, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring activities.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, and project teams during database upgrade and migration initiatives.
• Ensure database configurations, operational guidelines, and technical documentation are maintained and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Perform technical reviews and implement corrective actions to improve database reliability and operational efficiency.
• Identify at-risk database environments and proactively mitigate operational and migration-related risks.

Strong Understanding Of

• Oracle Database administration (11g, 12c, 18c, 19c, 21c and later versions).
• Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN Backup & Recovery.
• SQL Server administration (2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022).
• SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, Replication, Log Shipping, Clustering.
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting for Oracle and SQL Server databases.
• Database security, compliance, auditing, and patch management.
• Cross-platform database migrations and heterogeneous migration methodologies.
• Linux and Windows server administration fundamentals.
• Production support and operational database management.

Experience In Executing End-to-End Database Migrations Including

• Oracle Database upgrades and platform migrations.
• Oracle RAC and