Oracle DBA

Talent Groups; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Groups seeks an Oracle Database Administrator to manage and optimize Enterprise Oracle databases across multiple environments. You will handle installation, upgrades, patching, migrations, cloning, and refresh activities to ensure high availability.

Responsibilities include performance tuning, incident troubleshooting, on-call rotation, and contributing to security and compliance. Strong scripting skills and report generation are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Oracle databases (11g, 12c, 19c, 21c).
• Expertise in installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migration, cloning, and refresh activities.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Experience in SQL tuning, execution plan analysis, and database performance optimization.
• Manage database availability, monitoring, capacity planning, and production support across environments.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot locking, blocking, deadlocks, and critical database incidents.
• Support application deployments, change management, RCA, and database documentation.
• Generate business reports and monthly database metrics.
• Participate in on-call and production support activities.
• Maintain security, auditing, access controls, and compliance.

Skills

SQL tuning

Production support

Troubleshooting

Capacity planning

Database metrics reporting

Tools

Oracle RAC

ASM

Data Guard

RMAN

Shell scripting

Python

PL/SQL

Job description

• Hands-on experience administering Oracle databases (11g, 12c, 19c, and 21c).
• Expertise in database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migration, cloning, and refresh activities.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Experience in SQL tuning, execution plan analysis, and database performance optimization.
• Manage database availability, monitoring, capacity planning, and production support across Production, UAT, and Development environments.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in locking, blocking, deadlocks, and critical database incidents.
• Knowledge of database security, auditing, access controls, and compliance.
• Experience with Shell scripting, Python, or PL/SQL automation.
• Support application deployments, change management, RCA, and database documentation.
• Ability to generate business reports and monthly database metrics.
• Willingness to participate in on-call and critical production support.