Oracle DBA & Database Reliability Lead

International Executive Service Corps; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis seeks an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to own reliability, security, and performance of the Oracle tier supporting modernized applications. You will work with the Technical Lead and Middleware Engineer to ensure efficient data access without centralizing business logic in the database.

The role requires 5+ years in Oracle DB, PL/SQL, and experience with schema migration, security controls, and high availability in a production enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Oracle DB administration and PL/SQL in production.
• Experience with stored procedures, functions, packages, views, indexes.
• DB performance tuning, execution plans, indexing, statistics, capacity planning.
• Backup/recovery, high availability, security, auditing, change management.
• Experience with schema/data migration, CI/CD driven deployments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Oracle database environments for availability and health.
• Develop PL/SQL procedures, functions, packages, views per standards.
• Review query and schema designs for efficient access and avoid data tier bloat.
• Plan and execute schema changes, migrations, backfills, and releases.
• Implement backup, recovery, restore validation and disaster-recovery as needed.
• Enforce least privilege, auditing, encryption configs, and security controls.
• Troubleshoot performance, locking, transactions, data integrity and connectivity.
• Support QA with test data, defects, data validation, and performance tests.

Skills

Oracle DBA

PL/SQL development

SQL tuning

Execution plans

Indexing

Schema design

Backup/Recovery

High availability

Security controls

CI/CD deployments

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field / equivalent

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) preferred

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

NuAxis seeks an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to own reliability, security, and performance of the Oracle tier supporting modernized applications. You will work with the Technical Lead and Middleware Engineer to ensure efficient data access without centralizing business logic in the database.

The role requires 5+ years in Oracle DB, PL/SQL, and experience with schema migration, security controls, and high availability in a production enterprise environment.