Senior Oracle DBA (100% Remote)

Kforce Inc; Draper (UT); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Kforce Inc. is hiring a Senior Oracle DBA for a 100% remote role. The candidate will manage large-scale Oracle databases in a healthcare-related environment, focusing on reliability, performance, and security across enterprise applications.

Responsibilities include provisioning, upgrades, backups, DR, and incident resolution, with collaboration across engineering teams. The role demands deep Oracle expertise, including RAC, Data Guard, and cloud considerations with OCI, to maintain production

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience administering Oracle databases.
• Experience with large-scale, production Oracle environments.
• Direct experience with 30+ TB databases.
• RAC and Data Guard high-availability experience.
• OCI experience and cloud database familiarity.
• Strong PL/SQL/SQL troubleshooting and tuning.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support large-scale production Oracle databases.
• Manage provisioning, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle tasks.
• Maintain high availability and disaster recovery (RAC/Data Guard).
• Perform backup, restore, and validation activities.
• Monitor health, capacity, and performance; tune SQL as needed.
• Support releases, deployments, and database changes.
• Implement and enforce database security controls.

Skills

Oracle DBA

SQL tuning

PL/SQL

Data Guard

RAC

OCI

Backup & recovery

Tools

Oracle 11g/12c/19c

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Job description

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Oracle DBA (100% Remote). Summary: Our client, a healthcare organization, is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to support large-scale, high-transaction Oracle database environments supporting enterprise applications. This is a hands-on senior-level position focused on the reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational stability of business-critical Oracle platforms. The ideal candidate has extensive experience supporting Oracle at significant scale and can independently diagnose complex database issues, optimize performance, maintain highly available environments, and support critical production systems. Duties:

• Administer and support large-scale production Oracle database environments


• Manage database provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle activities


• Maintain and troubleshoot high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including Oracle RAC and Data Guard


• Perform database backup, restore, recovery, and validation activities


• Monitor database health, availability, capacity, resource utilization, and performance


• Diagnose and resolve complex database, SQL, PL/SQL, and performance issues


• Analyze and tune SQL queries to improve database and application performance


• Support production releases, application deployments, and database changes


• Implement and maintain database security controls, user access, and compliance requirements


• Troubleshoot production incidents and drive issues through root-cause resolution


• Collaborate with application and engineering teams on schema design, query optimization, and database performance


• Support Oracle cloud environments and OCI-related database initiatives

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience administering Oracle database environments


• Extensive hands-on experience supporting enterprise-scale, production Oracle databases


• Direct experience supporting databases of 30+ TB


• Hands-on experience administering Oracle environments such as 11g, 12c, and/or 19c


• Hands-on experience with Oracle high availability and disaster recovery, including RAC and Data Guard


• Strong experience with enterprise backup, restore, and recovery processes


• Experience supporting high-throughput database environments handling approximately 80,000 transactions per second


• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and/or Oracle databases in cloud environments


• Experience with Oracle performance diagnostics, troubleshooting, and tuning


• Experience managing Oracle database patching, upgrades, and lifecycle operations


• Experience supporting production releases and resolving complex database incidents


• Working knowledge of database security, access controls, and compliance requirements


• Strong knowledge of Oracle RDBMS architecture and administration


• Strong PL/SQL and SQL troubleshooting and query-optimization skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting complex, highly available, business-critical Oracle environments


• Experience working closely with application teams on schema design and database performance optimization


• Experience with database capacity planning and resource forecasting


• Broader experience supporting Oracle databases across both on-premises and cloud environments

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.