Senior Oracle DBA - Remote, Modernization & Reliability

ROI Solutions

Maine

Remote

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

ROI Solutions seeks a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to lead strategy and modernization of our Oracle environment. You will set architecture standards, own multi-year capacity plans, and drive reliability, security, and observability across production and non-production databases.

You will collaborate with product and security teams, optimize SQL and performance, and automate operations. The role emphasizes mentoring engineers and building resilient, scalable data platforms in a

Qualifications

8+ years of Oracle database administration experience in production environments.
Advanced experience with Oracle performance tuning and SQL optimization.
Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies: RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, partitioning.
PL/SQL proficiency to review and advise on code.
Strong relational database architecture and data-modeling skills.
Experience with backup, recovery, HA, DR planning and testing.
Experience with database security, auditing, access management, PCI-compliant environments.
Ability to diagnose complex performance and reliability issues across apps and DB infrastructure.
Experience with Oracle modernization and cloud migration strategies.
Experience with Oracle workloads in AWS and cloud-native databases.
Familiarity with AWS RDS, Aurora or equivalent cloud DB tech.
Experience with data pipelines and transformation technologies.
Familiarity with Datadog or comparable observability platforms.
OCP or equivalent certification.
Experience with mission-critical software platforms and SaaS transactions.
Automation of DB administration, monitoring, deployment, or operations.

Responsibilities

Set database architecture standards and guide decisions across ROI’s products.
Own multi-year roadmap for capacity, debt, and modernization.
Evaluate DB technologies for reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
Provide senior ownership and escalation for Oracle production and non-production environments.
Lead performance tuning, SQL optimization, capacity planning and troubleshooting.
Strengthen monitoring, backup, recovery, high availability, and DR practices.
Lead root-cause analysis for incidents and participate in on-call rotation.
Define practical standards for architecture, design, SQL development, documentation, and operations.
Review significant schema changes and migrations.
Partner with engineering to improve DB quality and performance across the lifecycle.
Develop pragmatic modernization strategy for mature Oracle environment.
Evaluate Oracle on AWS and cloud-native services for workloads.
Automate DB administration, deployment, monitoring, testing, and maintenance.
Mentor engineers in relational design, SQL performance, and best practices.
Create documentation, training, reusable patterns, and automation.