Oracle DBA & DMS Migration Specialist (Contract)

Randstad Digital Americas; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Short-term disability

ADT & Life insurance

Job summary

Randstad Digital Americas seeks an experienced Oracle DBA contractor in Houston to administer and migrate Oracle databases across production and non-production environments. Your responsibilities include installation, patching, upgrades, backups, and RMAN recovery, with a focus on RAC, Data Guard, and performance tuning.

You will plan migrations using DMS, GoldenGate, and Data Pump, assess risks, and ensure minimal downtime during cutovers, while documenting procedures for business continuity.

Qualifications

• Strong Oracle DBA administration experience across 11g/12c/19c/21c environments.
• Expertise in Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, OEM, and SQL performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with DMS and Oracle database migrations.
• Experience with OCI, Exadata, cloud migrations, and zeromin downtime strategies.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain Oracle databases in prod and non-prod environments.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery activities.
• Manage Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN, and performance tuning initiatives.
• Plan and execute database migrations using DMS, GoldenGate, Data Pump, RMAN, and related tools.
• Assess environments and define migration strategies, plan cutovers, mitigate risks.
• Troubleshoot migration issues, ensure data consistency, minimize downtime during cutovers.
• Implement HADR solutions and support business continuity requirements.
• Maintain migration runbooks, operational procedures, and technical documentation.

Skills

Oracle DBA administration

Oracle RAC

Data Guard

RMAN

SQL performance tuning

DMS (Database Migration Service)

OCI

GoldenGate

Scripting (Shell/SQL/PLSQL)

Automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Oracle GoldenGate

OEM

SQL Developer

Job description

Randstad Digital Americas seeks an experienced Oracle DBA contractor in Houston to administer and migrate Oracle databases across production and non-production environments. Your responsibilities include installation, patching, upgrades, backups, and RMAN recovery, with a focus on RAC, Data Guard, and performance tuning.

You will plan migrations using DMS, GoldenGate, and Data Pump, assess risks, and ensure minimal downtime during cutovers, while documenting procedures for business continuity.