Principal Database Administrator

Ll Oefentherapie; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a highly skilled Oracle DBA to support day-to-day operations, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and high availability. You will collaborate with the Site Reliability Engineering team to own a full stack of services, ensuring security, resiliency, and scale across on-premises and cloud environments.

The role requires leadership in diagnosing complex issues, optimizing RAC/Data Guard configurations, and contributing to SOPs. Availability for shifts and weekends is required.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen with an active TS/SCI with poly.
• Willing to work shifts and weekends.
• Extensive Oracle DB experience (11g/12c/19c+).
• RMAN backup/recovery expertise including DR scenarios.
• Hands-on with Oracle RAC and/or Data Guard.
• Shell scripting (Bash).
• SQL and PL/SQL proficiency.
• Familiar with Exadata and cloud/on-prem environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and optimize mission-critical Oracle database environments.
• Ensure database availability, performance, security, and recoverability across on-premises and cloud-based systems.
• Partner with development teams to implement improvements in service architecture.
• Escalate complex issues and document SOPs for ongoing operations.
• Explain product architecture decisions affecting distributed systems.
• Be available for shifts and weekends.

Skills

US Citizenship & TS/SCI with poly

Oracle Database

RMAN backup/recovery

Linux

Oracle RAC

Data Guard

Bash scripting

SQL/PL/SQL

Performance tuning

SRE collaboration

Security/compliance

Shifts & Weekends

Tools

Exadata

Job description

Reston, VA, United States
Seattle, WA, United States

• Job Identification 338081
• Job Category Product and Research
• Posting Date 06/24/2026, 04:28 PM
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? Yes
• Years 6 to 10+ years
• Additional Info Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job Description

As an Oracle DBA the role will focus on day-to-day DBA support, production troubleshooting, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and high availability. You'll work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas and understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.

Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture.

Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.

Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to develop a deep understanding of services and technologies.

This Position will require being available for Shifts and Weekends

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Responsibilities

Manage, maintain, and optimize mission-critical Oracle database environments.

This role is responsible for ensuring database availability, performance, security, and recoverability across on-premises and/or cloud-based systems.

The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Oracle technologies, RMAN backup/recovery, Linux systems, and high-availability architectures such as RAC and Data Guard, with experience in Exadata environments highly preferred.

Required Skills:

• Must Possess U.S. CITIZENSHIP and an ACTIVE TS/SCI W/POLY SECURITY CLEARANCE To Be Eligible for Consideration
• Willing to workShifts and Weekends
• Strong experience with Oracle Database (11g/12c/19c or later)
• Expertise in RMAN backup and recovery, including restore and disaster recovery scenarios
• Hands-on experience with Oracle RAC and/or Data Guard
• Shell scripting (Bash)
• System performance tools (top, vmstat, iostat)
• Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills
• Experience with performance tuning (AWR, ASH, execution plans)
• Knowledge of Oracle architecture (SGA, PGA, redo/undo, etc.)
• Experience with database patching and upgrades
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Preferred But not Required Qualifications

Prior SRE experience managing production cloud services.

Prior experience in releasing and maintaining cloud services.

Production experience managing systems or database environment.

Experience with a general-purpose systems language such as: Python, Perl, Unix Shell and/or database language SQL, PL/SQL,Rust

Qualifications

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: Hiring Range in USD from: $84,900 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

Required Skills

• Backup and Recovery
• Bash Scripting
• Oracle Database
• Oracle Exadata
• PL/SQL
• Troubleshooting

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