Senior Oracle DBA: Cloud-Ready Modernization Leader

ROI Solutions; Central City (CO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead the strategy and evolution of our Oracle database environment. This high-impact individual contributor role blends deep Oracle expertise with modernization to shape architecture, standards, and cloud adoption.

You will collaborate with Product Reliability and Security Engineering teams, Product teams, and our managed services partner to ensure databases remain secure, scalable, and prepared for the future with enhanced

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Oracle database administration in complex production environments.
• Advanced experience with Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query‑plan analysis.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.
• PL/SQL familiarity for reviewing and advising on database-resident code.
• Experience with backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster-recovery planning/testing.
• Experience with database security, auditing, access management, and PCI‑type environments.
• Ability to diagnose complex performance/reliability issues across apps and DB infra.
• Experience with Oracle modernization and cloud migration strategies.
• Familiarity with AWS RDS, Aurora, or cloud-native DB tech.
• Experience with data pipelines and transformation technologies.
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms.
• Experience with SaaS/mission-critical platforms.

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 DB technologies and cloud services for reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Provide senior ownership and escalation for Oracle production/non-production environments.
• Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, and capacity planning with developers.
• Strengthen monitoring, backup, recovery, HA, and disaster-recovery practices.
• Lead root‑cause analysis for significant incidents and participate in on‑call rotations.
• Define practical standards for architecture, SQL development, documentation, and operations.
• Review significant schema changes, migrations, and designs.
• Partner with engineering to improve quality and performance across the lifecycle.
• Develop modernization strategy for mature Oracle environments and product architecture.
• Evaluate Oracle on AWS and alternative platforms for workloads.
• Automate DBA tasks to reduce debt and complexity.
• Mentor engineers in relational design, SQL performance, and best practices.
• Support data pipelines, migrations, and product initiatives with database expertise.
• Partner with a managed services provider to define SLAs and assess service quality.

Skills

Oracle performance tuning

SQL optimization

RAC

Data Guard

RMAN

Exadata

Partitioning

PL/SQL

Security/compliance (PCI)

Cloud migration

Datadog observability

OCP

Education

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

Job description

ROI Solutions is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead the strategy and evolution of our Oracle database environment. This high-impact individual contributor role blends deep Oracle expertise with modernization to shape architecture, standards, and cloud adoption.

You will collaborate with Product Reliability and Security Engineering teams, Product teams, and our managed services partner to ensure databases remain secure, scalable, and prepared for the future with enhanced