Consultant | Database Administration | Exadata

Expedite Talent Solutions; Texas City (TX); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedite Talent Solutions seeks a seasoned Exadata Patch Engineer to lead Exadata Cloud@Customer patching and lifecycle management. You will coordinate patch cycles, implement security updates, and ensure high availability across RAC environments.

You will automate tasks with Terraform and Ansible, work with OCI tooling, and collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to minimize downtime and enhance patch governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Exadata patching or Oracle patching in large environments.
• Strong experience with OCI patches and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on Exadata Cloud@Customer patching and maintenance.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute patch cycles across ExaCC databases and infrastructure.
• Manage security patches, PSU/CPU updates, and critical Oracle fixes.
• Automate patching workflows using Terraform and Ansible.
• Administer Oracle RAC patching including GRID and RDBMS.
• Ensure patch governance, availability, and compliance with standards.

Skills

Exadata patching

OCI patch automation

Oracle RAC patching

LCM Fleet operations

Patch management

Patch governance

Tools

OCI Console

OCI CLI

OCI REST APIs

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

• UPDATED CONTACT NUMBER and EMAIL ID is a MANDATORY REQUEST from our client for all the submissions
• Limited to 2 submission per supplier. Please submit your best.
• We prioritize endorsing those with complete and accurate information
• Avoid submitting duplicate profiles. We will Reject/Disqualify immediately.
• Make sure that candidate's interview schedules are updated. Please inform the candidate to keep their lines open.

Description: POC: Bharath Subramanya

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• UPDATED CONTACT NUMBER and EMAIL ID is a MANDATORY REQUEST from our client for all the submissions
• Limited to 2 submission per supplier. Please submit your best.
• We prioritize endorsing those with complete and accurate information
• Avoid submitting duplicate profiles. We will Reject/Disqualify immediately.
• Make sure that candidate's interview schedules are updated. Please inform the candidate to keep their lines open.

MANDATORY: Please include in the resume the candidate’s complete & updated contact information (Phone number, Email address and Skype ID) as well as a set of 5 interview timeslots over a 72-hour period after submitting the profile when the hiring managers could potentially reach to them. PROFILES WITHOUT THE REQUIRED DETAILS and TIME SLOTS will be REJECTED.

Job title: Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC) patching

Work Location: Texas City, TX 77591

Vendor Rate: *** USD per hour

Minimum years of experience: 8 Years

Would you require the candidates to meet you for in person interview? No

Is Skype/WebEx interview,OK? Yes MS Teams meeting will work.

Is this onsite/remote position: Hybrid (*** Hub Location)

If onsite, will you be considering relocation candidates: Yes

Does this position require Visa independent candidates only? Yes

Job Description

• Hands-on experience with Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC) patching and maintenance.
• Strong expertise in OCI patch automation, Oracle RAC patching, and LCM Fleet operations for patch management.
• Proven experience in planning, coordinating, and executing patching cycles across ExaCC databases and infrastructure.
• Ability to manage and implement Security Patches, PSU/CPU updates, and critical Oracle fixes while ensuring system availability, performance, and compliance with organizational standards.
• Strong understanding of Oracle infrastructure administration, patch governance, and operational best practices.

Any additional information you would like to share about the project specs/nature of work:

• Lead, manage and execute ExaCC patching lifecycle (compute nodes, DomU VMs, Grid Infrastructure and Databases).
• Plan, schedule, and execute OCI patching cycles across ExaCC infrastructure and DomU OS images, compute OS instances.
• Experienced with OCI console, CLI and Rest APIs to apply, rollback and monitor patches.
• Automate patching workflows using Terraform, Ansible.
• Manage Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) patching including GRID and RDBMS, both in-place and out-of-place patch ensuring high availability.
• Integrate and manage patching operations using LCM Fleet operations with OEM that includes gold image creation and deployment.
• Database patching in RAC and Data Guard enabled environments.
• Administer and troubleshoot Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management).
• Plan, schedule, and execute quarterly PSU/CPU, Third-Party and one-off patches with minimal downtime.
• Perform patch impact assessments, risk evaluations, and rollback strategies.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cyber security teams to coordinate patch cycles.
• Maintain documentation of patching procedures, schedules, and standards.
• Troubleshoot patch-related issues, database failures, and post-patch anomalies and provide RCA with remediation.
• Drive process improvements to reduce downtime, manual errors, and patching cycle times.
• Strong understanding of investigation and remediation techniques for non-patch related vulnerabilities.

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