Senior Oracle Database Administrator

ringcentral; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

RingCentral in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to own end-to-end database lifecycle management across 10g/11g/12c/19c, including performance tuning, backups, DR, and HA configurations.

You will implement patching and upgrades, script routine tasks, and collaborate with developers and QA to optimize schemas and deployments, while ensuring 24x7 production readiness.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of IT experience with 4+ years Oracle database administration
• Hands-on backup, restore and recovery (RMAN, PITR) expertise
• Understanding of Oracle architecture, memory, and storage (ASM, tablespaces)
• Experience with patching, upgrades, migrations across Oracle versions
• Familiarity with performance tools (AWR, ADDM, TKPROF)
• Knowledge of HA/DR concepts (RAC, Data Guard)
• Scripting (Bash primary, Python a plus) for automation
• Strong collaboration with Developers, QA, and Oracle Support
• Ability to work under pressure in production incidents

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle databases across multiple versions with monitoring, tuning, patching, upgrades, CPU/PSU installs and cloning
• Install and configure Oracle RDBMS across dev/test/prod environments
• Design and implement backup, restore and DR strategies using RMAN and related tools
• Monitor health, capacity and growth; proactively resolve performance bottlenecks
• Manage security, including users, roles, privileges, and auditing
• Troubleshoot connectivity, replication, locking and corruption issues
• Implement high availability solutions (RAC, Data Guard, Standby databases)
• Automate routine DBA tasks with Bash/Python scripts
• Collaborate with developers, QA and infrastructure for schema design and releases
• Maintain documentation and incident runbooks; provide 24x7 on-call support

Skills

Oracle DBA

Scripting (Bash/Python)

On-call support

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

RMAN

AWR/ADDM

TKPROF

Data Guard

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Administer Oracle Database across 10g, 11g, 12c, and 19c releases, including performance monitoring, tuning, patching, upgrades, CPU/PSU installations, and database cloning
• Install and configure Oracle RDBMS software across development, test, and production environments
• Design and implement backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies using RMAN and related tools
• Monitor database health, capacity, and growth trends; proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Manage database security, including user access, roles, privileges, and auditing
• Troubleshoot and resolve Oracle database issues, including connectivity, replication, locking, and corruption
• Implement and maintain high availability solutions (RAC, Data Guard, Standby databases)
• Automate routine DBA tasks using scripts (Bash/Python) to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and infrastructure teams on schema design, query optimization, and release deployments
• Maintain documentation for database configurations, standard operating procedures, and incident runbooks
• Provide 24x7 on-call support for mission-critical Oracle databases in production, ensuring rapid incident response and resolution

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years of overall IT experience, including 4+ years specifically in Oracle database administration, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Strong hands-on experience with backup, restore, and recovery techniques (RMAN, hot/cold backups, point-in-time recovery)
• Solid understanding of Oracle architecture, memory management, and storage (ASM, tablespaces, redo/undo)
• Experience with database patching, upgrades, and migrations across major Oracle versions
• Familiarity with performance tuning tools (AWR, ADDM, SQL Trace, TKPROF)
• Working knowledge of high availability and DR concepts (RAC, Data Guard)
• Competent in scripting (Bash required; Python a plus) for automation and monitoring
• Strong collaboration skills to work closely with Developers, QA, and Oracle Support
• Ability to work independently and handle production incidents under pressure
• English level: Pre-Intermediate or higher

Would be a plus:

• Experience with Oracle GoldenGate for real-time data replication
• Experience with document-oriented databases (Mongo/Percona, PostgreSQL )
• Exposure to cloud-based Oracle deployments (OCI, AWS RDS for Oracle, or Azure)
• Oracle certifications (OCA/OCP