Oracle OCI Database Administrator (SME)

Mount Indie; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Mount Indie is seeking a highly experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to provision, administer, optimize, and support Oracle databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The role covers 19c/23c, CDB/PDB, migration, high availability, and DR, and is fully remote.

The candidate will work with distributed teams to support mission-critical workloads, implement automation, and maintain documentation and runbooks for cloud-based database environments.

Qualifications

• 7 years of Oracle Database Administration experience.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (e.g., Security ).
• Active SECRET clearance
• 2–3 years of hands-on OCI experience
• Experience supporting production, mission-critical workloads
• Strong knowledge of Oracle Database 19c/23c and multitenant CDB/PDB architecture
• Working knowledge of OCI VCNs, subnets, IAM, compartments, storage, and security
• Ability to operate independently in cloud-native environments
• Ability to diagnose complex issues across database, compute, storage, and network layers
• Strong documentation, communication, and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Provision and administer Oracle databases on OCI DB Systems, Exadata Cloud Service, and Autonomous Database platforms, including ATP and ADW.
• Manage CDB/PDB environments, including cloning, patching, upgrades, and resource management.
• Design and implement RMAN backup/recovery and Data Guard configurations with cross-region DR.
• Plan and execute high-availability solutions in OCI.
• Perform performance analysis using AWR/ASH and SQL tuning.
• Automate database and cloud tasks using Terraform, OCI CLI, Bash, or Python.

Skills

Oracle DBA

OCI experience

Security clearance

IAT Level II

Documentation

Tools

Terraform

OCI CLI

Python

Bash

SQL

Job description

We are seeking a highly experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to provision, administer, optimize, and support mission-critical Oracle databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role supports Oracle Database 19c/23c environments, including multitenant Container Databases (CDBs) and Pluggable Databases (PDBs), as well as cloud migration, modernization, high availability, and disaster recovery initiatives. This is a fully remote position.

Key Responsibilities

Database Provisioning & Administration:

• Provision and administer Oracle databases on OCI DB Systems, Exadata Cloud Service, and Autonomous Database platforms, including ATP and ADW.
• Manage CDB/PDB environments, including cloning, patching, upgrades, and resource management.

Backup, Recovery & High Availability:

• Implement and support RMAN backup/recovery, Oracle Data Guard, and cross-region disaster recovery architectures.
• Design high-availability and disaster recovery solutions in OCI.

Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting:

• Perform performance analysis and tuning using AWR, ASH, SQL optimization, and related tools.
• Troubleshoot complex performance, connectivity, database, compute, storage, network, and OCI resource issues.

Automation & Documentation:

• Automate database and cloud administration using Terraform, OCI CLI, Bash, Python, or similar scripting tools.
• Develop and maintain procedures, runbooks, technical documentation, and automation workflows.

Migration & Collaboration:

• Support Oracle database migrations and modernization efforts.
• Collaborate with distributed engineering, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams.

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of Oracle Database Administration experience
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (e.g., Security )
• Active SECRET clearance
• 2--3 years of hands-on OCI experience
• Experience supporting production, mission-critical workloads
• Strong knowledge of Oracle Database 19c/23c and multitenant CDB/PDB architecture
• Working knowledge of OCI VCNs, subnets, IAM, compartments, storage, and security
• Ability to operate independently in cloud-native environments
• Ability to diagnose complex issues across database, compute, storage, and network layers
• Strong documentation, communication, and collaboration skills

Preferred Certifications

• Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code experience strongly preferred
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) --- Oracle Database 19c/23c
• OCI Architect Associate certification
• OCI Architect Professional certification
• Oracle Autonomous Database Specialist certification preferred
• Oracle Database Performance Tuning Specialist certification preferred

Salary: $170,000 - $190,000