Senior Oracle DBA – Exadata Cloud@Customer, Hybrid

Horizontal Talent; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking a senior Oracle DBA to join a high-impact database administration team. This hybrid role focuses on implementing and operationalizing Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer as an enterprise platform, with collaboration across reliability, performance, and security teams.

You will perform hands-on DBA tasks across RAC/ASM/Clusterware, perform migrations, patching, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on Oracle DBA experience.
• Deep knowledge of Oracle RAC, ASM, Clusterware, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, and advanced performance tuning.
• Proven experience delivering Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer solutions end to end.
• Strong background in database migration planning, execution, and stabilization.
• Experience with GoldenGate replication and Data Guard high availability and disaster recovery.
• Working knowledge of OCI administration, including IAM, compartments, networking, monitoring, and Object Storage.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and operationalization of Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer environments from readiness checks through production handoff.
• Perform hands-on Oracle database administration tasks across RAC, ASM, Clusterware, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, and performance tuning.
• Plan and execute database migrations, including assessment, approach selection, rehearsal, validation, cutover, rollback planning, and post-migration stabilization.
• Work with application and technical stakeholders to coordinate onboarding, transition activities, and production readiness.
• Build and troubleshoot GoldenGate replication and Data Guard configurations, including failover, switchover, and disaster recovery testing.
• Support OCI tenancy administration activities such as IAM, compartments, networking, monitoring, and Object Storage.
• Use monitoring tools, automation, scripts, runbooks, and documentation to strengthen operational support and reduce risk.
• Participate in incident, change, and security processes while providing clear status updates to project and technical teams.

Skills

Oracle DBA

Oracle RAC/ASM

Patching/Upgrades

Backup/Recovery

Performance Tuning

Migration planning

GoldenGate

Data Guard

OCI administration

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Oracle Exadata

GoldenGate

Data Guard

OCI

Job description

Horizontal Talent is seeking a senior Oracle DBA to join a high-impact database administration team. This hybrid role focuses on implementing and operationalizing Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer as an enterprise platform, with collaboration across reliability, performance, and security teams.

You will perform hands-on DBA tasks across RAC/ASM/Clusterware, perform migrations, patching, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.