Senior Oracle Database Administrator

AHU Technologies Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator in Washington, D.C. to manage and maintain the Oracle database environment. The role requires expertise in upgrading Oracle databases, managing highly available systems, and strong knowledge of SQL. The ideal candidate will have 11-15 years of experience in database design and must hold a bachelor's degree in IT or a related field. This position involves strategic planning for information demands and expert knowledge of Oracle RMAN and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience.
• 11-15 years of database design, documentation, and coding experience.
• Expertise with Oracle database failovers.

Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, and implements projects in support of District’s growing information demands.
• Ensures the effective use of District resources.
• Contributes to policies for effective process planning as it relates to new requirements.
• Participates in short-term tactical planning implementation.
• Contributes to long-term strategic planning.

Skills

Expertise with Oracle database architecture

Expertise with Oracle 12c or higher

Expertise with Oracle RMAN backup and recovery strategies

Expertise with tuning Oracle databases

Expertise with Oracle RAC and highly available environments

Expertise writing complex SQL and functions

Expertise with troubleshooting Oracle databases

Expertise with upgrading Oracle databases

Knowledge of operating Oracle databases in cloud environments

Knowledge of automation and DevOps for databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Oracle RMAN

Azure

AWS

Job description

Job Description

Client is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to manage and maintain the central Oracle environment for the district. The resource must have experience with upgrading core versions of Oracle database and managing a highly available environment.

Short Description

Client is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to manage and maintain the central Oracle environment for the district. The resource must have experience with upgrading core versions of Oracle database and managing a highly available environment.

Complete Description

Client is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to manage and maintain the central Oracle environment for the district. The resource must have experience with upgrading core versions of Oracle database and managing a highly available environment. This includes backup and restore, troubleshooting connectivity, performing failovers as planned or in support of unplanned activities, performing maintenance to include optimizing and tuning, reviewing memory, I/O, indexing, queries, access, tablespace, schemas. The resource must have experience with capacity planning, incident response and root cause analysis, and working with cross‑functional collaboration with teams (developers, architects, security) utilizing the environment.

CONTRACT JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities

1. Plans, organizes, and implements projects in support of District’s growing information demands.
2. Ensures the effective use of District resources.
3. Contributes to policies for effective process planning as it relates to new requirements.
4. Possesses expert knowledge of the Structured Query Language (SQL) environment with particular emphasis on planning, analysis, design and implementation of reports and report interfaces intended for the end user.
5. Participates in short‑term tactical planning implementation.
6. Contributes to long‑term strategic planning.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience

Technical Skills

• Expertise with Oracle database architecture.
• Expertise with Oracle 12c or higher.
• Expertise with Oracle RMAN backup and recovery strategies.
• Expertise with tuning Oracle databases (query/indexes/memory/IO/storage).
• Expertise with Oracle RAC and highly available environments.
• Expertise with Oracle database failovers.
• Expertise writing complex SQL and functions, triggers and objects.
• Expertise with troubleshooting Oracle databases.
• Expertise with upgrading Oracle databases.
• Expertise with security for Oracle databases.
• Knowledge of operating Oracle databases in cloud environments such as Azure and AWS.
• Knowledge of automation and DevOps for databases.
• 11-15 yrs database design, documentation, and coding.
• Designing and implementing reports and report interfaces.
• SQL experience.
• Oracle Certified Professional or higher.