Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)

NuAxis Innovations; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations is seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to own reliability, security, and performance of the Oracle tier supporting modernized applications. You will collaborate with the Technical Lead and Middleware Engineer to ensure efficient data access and governance.

Required: 5+ years in Oracle DB administration and PL/SQL, plus strong experience with backup/recovery, security, and compliance in enterprise environments. OCP is preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Oracle Database administration and PL/SQL development in a production enterprise environment.
• Experience developing and maintaining stored procedures, functions, packages, views, and other database objects.
• Experience with backup/recovery, high availability, security, auditing, and change management.
• Experience with CI/CD-driven database deployments and application modernization.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Oracle database environments, including availability and performance.
• Develop PL/SQL components in coordination with middleware/architecture standards.
• Review schema designs to ensure efficient access and avoid business-logic duplication in data tier.
• Plan and execute schema changes, migrations, and release-related database changes.
• Implement backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery requirements.
• Enforce least privilege, access controls, auditing, and encryption configurations.
• Troubleshoot performance, locking, and data-integrity issues with application teams.
• Support QA with test-data needs and data validation.
• Maintain database documentation and change records.
• Support monitoring and release readiness with evidence for operations.

Skills

Oracle DB administration

PL/SQL development

SQL tuning

Data migration

CI/CD deployments

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) preferred

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

WE ARE A FEDERAL IT COMPANY ON A MISSION TO MAKE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (CX) THE CENTER OF EVERY GOVERNMENT SOLUTION. TECHNOLOGY IS OUR PASSION. PEOPLE ARE OUR PURPOSE.

We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind.

We are currently seeking a talented and motivated Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) for a Full-Time position.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator / Developer to own the reliability, security, performance, schema governance, and database-development responsibilities of the Oracle tier supporting the modernized application. The role works closely with the Technical Lead and Middleware Engineer to ensure efficient data access without concentrating unnecessary business logic in the database.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) credential strongly preferred.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 5+ years of Oracle Database administration and PL/SQL development experience in a production enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining stored procedures, functions, packages, views, indexes, and other database objects.
• Experience with database performance tuning, execution-plan analysis, indexing, statistics, capacity planning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with backup/recovery, high availability, database security, access control, auditing, and change management.
• Experience supporting application modernization, schema/data migration, interface changes, and CI/CD-driven database deployments.
• Experience in FISMA/NIST-aligned or other compliance-driven environments preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Oracle database environments, including availability, performance, capacity, patch coordination, storage, and operational health.
• Develop and maintain PL/SQL procedures, functions, packages, views, and other database components in coordination with middleware and architecture standards.
• Review query and schema designs to ensure efficient access patterns and prevent unnecessary duplication or concentration of business logic in the data tier.
• Plan and execute schema changes, data migrations, backfills, conversions, and release-related database changes through controlled processes.
• Implement and support backup, recovery, restore validation, high-availability, and disaster-recovery requirements as applicable.
• Enforce least privilege, access controls, auditing, encryption-related database configurations where applicable, and other required security controls.
• Troubleshoot database performance, locking/blocking, transaction, data-integrity, and connectivity issues in collaboration with application teams.
• Support QA with test-data needs, defect investigations, data validation, and performance-test diagnostics while protecting sensitive data.
• Maintain database documentation, schema/data dictionaries, operational procedures, change records, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Support monitoring/alerting and provide database-level evidence needed for release readiness and operational support.

Core Technical Skills

• Oracle Database administration, PL/SQL development, SQL tuning, execution plans, indexing, and schema design.
• Backup/recovery, high availability, capacity planning, security/access control, auditing, and operational troubleshooting.
• Data migration, controlled schema deployment, Git/change management, and application-integration support.
• Ability to collaborate with architects, middleware developers, QA automation engineers, security, and operations teams.

Our Profile

We are an IT company with a unique mission—to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed. Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them.

NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation.