Title: Oracle Database Administrator
Duration: 6 months possible TTH
Location: Full-time onsite in McLean, VA or Plano, TX
Job Description:
The Database Engineering team is seeking a Senior Database Engineer with strong expertise in Oracle database administration to support business-critical, 24x7 production environments. This role is responsible for managing on-premises Oracle databases in a fast-paced operational setting that supports both transactional and analytical workloads. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience in Oracle database administration, automation, performance tuning, troubleshooting, security, and high availability. This individual will also play a key role in evaluating emerging database technologies, improving operational efficiency through scripting and automation, and supporting database tools and platforms across production and non-production environments.
Key Responsibilities
" Provide end-to-end Oracle DBA support, including provisioning, backup and recovery, replication, deployment, and real-time production troubleshooting.
" Install, configure, monitor, upgrade, and maintain Oracle databases across production and non-production environments.
" Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support production systems as needed.
" Support database deployments for test and production environments.
" Diagnose and resolve database performance issues using monitoring tools and tuning techniques.
" Collaborate with system administrators on Linux, Unix, and virtual machine platform issues related to databases.
" Develop and maintain automation scripts for database provisioning, maintenance, and reporting.
" Configure and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
" Support data replication and sharding strategies.
" Troubleshoot database production incidents and connectivity issues.
" Work independently and collaboratively with minimal supervision.
Basic Requirements
" 10+ years of experience in database administration.
" Strong expertise in Oracle database administration in enterprise environments.
" Extensive experience in database performance tuning and troubleshooting.
" Deep knowledge of enterprise database best practices for large-scale environments.
" Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, storage technologies, and data replication.
" Experience implementing, supporting, and auditing database security controls.
Preferred Skills
" Experience supporting on-premises Oracle environments.
" Experience migrating Oracle databases from on-premises platforms to AWS RDS.
" Familiarity with database monitoring tools.
" Strong written and verbal communication skills.
" Experience working in virtualized environments such as Client.
" Proficiency in automation using Shell, Python, and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
" Database and cloud vendor certifications.
EEO:
Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.