Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Jobgether; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid work options

Mentorship opportunities

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a senior Oracle Database Administrator to own and drive architecture, modernization, and operational excellence across production and non-production Oracle environments. The role emphasizes performance tuning, capacity planning, and automation, with cloud and on-prem options, and a strong mentoring component.

You will shape multi-year roadmaps, review major changes with engineering, and lead on-call incident analysis while coordinating with a managed services provider.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Oracle database administration in production environments.
• Advanced expertise in Oracle performance tuning and SQL optimization.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
• Working familiarity with PL/SQL and reviewing database-resident code.
• Relational database architecture, design, and data-modeling skills.
• Experience with backup, recovery, high availability, and DR testing.
• Knowledge of database security, auditing, and PCI-compliant environments.
• Ability to diagnose complex performance and reliability issues across apps and DB infra.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills; proactive problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Define database architecture standards and guide decisions across products and platforms.
• Own the multi-year roadmap for database capacity, debt, and modernization.
• Evaluate database technologies and cloud services for reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Provide senior ownership and escalation support for Oracle environments.
• Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, and complex troubleshooting.
• Improve monitoring, backup/recovery, high availability, and DR practices.
• Lead root-cause analyses for incidents and participate in on-call rotation.
• Establish standards for architecture, design, SQL development, docs, and operations.
• Review major schema changes, migrations, and DB designs with engineering teams.
• Develop modernization strategies for Oracle, including Oracle on AWS and cloud-native options.
• Automate DBA tasks to reduce manual work and complexity.
• Mentor engineers on DB design, SQL performance, and best practices; create docs and patterns.
• Coordinate with the managed services provider for responsibilities and escalation.

Skills

Oracle tuning

SQL optimization

Relational DB design

Data modeling

High availability planning

Security/compliance

Mentoring/leadership

Automation mindset

Tools

Oracle RAC

Data Guard

RMAN

ASM

Exadata

Partitioning

Job description

Accountabilities:

- Define database architecture standards and guide technical decisions across products and platforms.

- Own the multi-year roadmap for database capacity, technical debt, and modernization.

- Evaluate database technologies and cloud services based on reliability, scalability, security, and cost.

- Provide senior technical ownership and escalation support for production and non-production Oracle environments.

- Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, query analysis, capacity planning, and complex troubleshooting.

- Improve monitoring, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery practices.

- Lead root-cause analyses for significant incidents and participate in a shared on-call rotation.

- Establish practical standards for database architecture, design, SQL development, documentation, and operations.

- Review major schema changes, migrations, procedural objects, and database designs in collaboration with engineering teams.

- Develop modernization strategies for the existing Oracle environment, evaluating Oracle on AWS, cloud-native services, and alternative database platforms.

- Automate database administration, deployment, monitoring, testing, and maintenance to reduce manual work and operational complexity.

- Mentor engineers on relational database design, SQL performance, and database best practices; create reusable documentation, training, and technical patterns.

- Strengthen internal database capabilities and coordinate responsibilities, knowledge sharing, and escalation procedures with the managed services provider.

- Support data pipelines, client conversions, migrations, and major product initiatives, helping teams deliver secure and efficient data movement.

- Manage the technical relationship with the database services provider, defining responsibilities, service expectations, escalation paths, and SLAs while assessing service quality.

- Evaluate database-related vendors, technologies, and services as needed.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of Oracle database administration experience supporting complex production environments.

- Advanced expertise in Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query-plan analysis.

- Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies, including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.

- Working familiarity with PL/SQL, including the ability to review, troubleshoot, and advise on database-resident code.

- Strong relational database architecture, design, and data-modeling skills.

- Experience with backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery planning and testing.

- Knowledge of database security, auditing, access management, and compliance-oriented environments such as PCI.

- Ability to diagnose complex performance and reliability issues across applications and database infrastructure.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, prioritization, and mentoring skills, with the ability to make technical risks and recommendations clear to different stakeholders.

- A proactive, ownership-oriented approach to problem-solving, continuous improvement, automation, and knowledge sharing.

- Pragmatism when modernizing mature systems, balancing immediate operational needs with long-term architectural improvements.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience developing or executing Oracle modernization and cloud migration strategies.

- Experience with Oracle workloads in AWS, including Oracle DB@AWS.

- Familiarity with AWS RDS, Aurora, or other cloud-native database technologies.

- Ability to assess which workloads should remain on Oracle and which may be suitable for alternative database platforms.

- Experience with data pipeline and transformation technologies.

- Familiarity with Datadog or comparable database monitoring and observability platforms.

- Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or an equivalent Oracle certification.

- Experience with SaaS, transaction-intensive, fundraising, payment, financial, or other mission-critical software platforms.

- Background in a small or mid-sized technology organization where senior technical contributors work across functional boundaries.

- Experience automating database administration, monitoring, deployment, or operational processes.

Benefits:

- Annual salary of $140,000–$150,000 for a well-qualified candidate.

- Remote working arrangement, with the option to work hybrid or in-office depending on individual preference and location.

- Full-time employment.

- Limited travel, generally fewer than five trips per year for in-person team, planning, or company meetings.

- Opportunity to shape database strategy and modernization while working on mission-critical technology.

- Collaborative environment with opportunities to mentor colleagues and strengthen shared technical capabilities.