Senior Oracle DBA: Architecture, Performance & Modernization

ROI Solutions; Accident (MD); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead architecture standards and modernization of our Oracle environment. You will own multi-year capacity planning, participate in cloud strategies, and ensure security, performance, and reliability across production and non-production databases.

You will collaborate with reliability and security teams, drive automation, and advocate resilient database practices while guiding governance and SQL optimization efforts.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Oracle database administration experience in production environments.
• Advanced Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query-plan analysis.
• Strong knowledge of RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
• Familiarity with PL/SQL for reviewing and troubleshooting database-resident code.
• Robust relational database design, data modeling, and architecture.
• Experience with backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery planning/testing.
• Experience with database security, auditing, and PCI-compliant environments.
• Ability to diagnose complex performance/reliability issues across apps and DB infra.
• Strong communication, collaboration, prioritization, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Set database architecture standards and guide decisions across ROI’s products and platforms.
• Own the multi-year roadmap for capacity, debt, and modernization.
• Evaluate technologies and cloud services for reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Provide ownership and escalation support for Oracle production/non-production environments.
• Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, capacity planning, and troubleshooting with developers.
• Strengthen monitoring, backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery practices.
• Lead root-cause analysis for incidents and participate in on-call rotation.
• Define standards for architecture, design, SQL development, documentation, and operations.
• Partner with engineering to improve database quality and performance across the development lifecycle.
• Develop modernization strategy for mature Oracle environments and evaluate cloud workloads.
• Automate DBA administration, deployment, monitoring, testing, and maintenance to reduce technical debt.

Skills

Oracle RAC

Data Guard

RMAN

Exadata

SQL optimization

PL/SQL

Database security

Performance tuning

Tools

Oracle Cloud

AWS RDS

Job description

ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead architecture standards and modernization of our Oracle environment. You will own multi-year capacity planning, participate in cloud strategies, and ensure security, performance, and reliability across production and non-production databases.

You will collaborate with reliability and security teams, drive automation, and advocate resilient database practices while guiding governance and SQL optimization efforts.