Senior Oracle DBA - Cloud Operations (EMEA/US), On-Call

Sapiens; Lisboa; Vor Ort; EUR 75.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Sapiens is seeking a senior Oracle DBA to join the Global Cloud DBA team in Portugal. You will own day‑to‑day operation, availability and performance of Oracle estates on AWS (RDS/EC2) and OCI for GDPR, EMEA and US customers, with fixed EMEA hours and on‑call rotation. You will also develop MSSQL, PostgreSQL and MySQL capabilities as secondary platforms.

Location: Portugal, Lisbon. The role requires 6–10 years of hands‑on database administration experience, excellent English, and a track record

Qualifikationen

• 6–10 years of hands‑on database administration experience, with a majority on Oracle Database in production environments.
• Demonstrable experience supporting enterprise or managed‑services customers under formal SLAs.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent practical experience.
• Certifications such as Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) 19c, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate or AWS Certified Database — Specialty are an advantage.
• Eligibility to work in Portugal.
• Proven track record working for a Born-in-the-Cloud or Cloud-Native technology company — must have.

Aufgaben

• 24×7 production support for Oracle estates across EMEA, GDPR and US customers — incident response, root‑cause analysis and SLA‑bound resolution of P1/P2 issues.
• Execution and validation of customer scripts and datafixes against production and pre‑production databases, including impact assessment, backup/snapshot before execution and ownership of the rollback path.
• Backup, restore and recovery operations; periodic recovery testing and RTO/RPO validation.
• Database refresh, clone and copy activities across environments, including masked refreshes for non‑production.
• High availability and disaster recovery: configuration, monitoring, failover testing and recovery.
• Performance monitoring and tuning — query and index optimisation, blocking and contention analysis, capacity and growth management.
• Planned change delivery: pre‑implementation backups, implementation, post‑implementation and post‑patching validation within agreed maintenance windows.
• Access and permission management, user provisioning and privilege reviews.
• Patching, upgrades and migrations, including cloud migrations and version upgrades.
• Automation of routine operational tasks and contribution to self‑healing and monitoring improvements.
• Proactive analysis of recurring incidents to identify and eliminate root causes rather than repeatedly remediating them.

Kenntnisse

Troubleshooting under pressure

Ownership mindset

Cross-database skills (MSSQL/Postgre

Documentation habit

English communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Tools

Oracle Database

AWS RDS/EC2

OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

MSSQL

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Jobbeschreibung

Sapiens is seeking a senior Oracle DBA to join the Global Cloud DBA team in Portugal. You will own day‑to‑day operation, availability and performance of Oracle estates on AWS (RDS/EC2) and OCI for GDPR, EMEA and US customers, with fixed EMEA hours and on‑call rotation. You will also develop MSSQL, PostgreSQL and MySQL capabilities as secondary platforms.

Location: Portugal, Lisbon. The role requires 6–10 years of hands‑on database administration experience, excellent English, and a track record