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1 Oracle Principal DBA Job

Principal Database Administrator, SaaS Engineering

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.

3.7

based on 5.2k Reviews

10-15 years

₹ 17.5 - 22.15L/yr (AmbitionBox estimate)

Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi + 4 more

1 vacancy

Principal Database Administrator, SaaS Engineering

Oracle

posted 3d ago

Job Role Insights

Flexible timing

Key skills for the job

Python SQL Automation Testing C++ PLSQL Database Administration

+ 4 more

Job Description

As a Senior Database Administrator, you are instrumental in researching, evaluating, designing, testing, recommending, and planning implementation of new versions of Oracle database and database tools. May act as a team lead during database implementations and for system operation and maintenance.

Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. 8 years of experience supporting relational databases as a DBA, with multiple distributed relational DBSMs or a depth and focus in Oracle and related tools. Success at using the DBMS to optimize performance of large databases for enterprise use is greatly preferred. Experience with an organization with a key 24 X 7 reliance on its database is desirable. BS or equivalent desired.

Principal Database administrator:

SRE DevSecOps Senior Database Administrator and Engineer will be part of the Oracle Cloud Operations team and will be responsible for the 24/7/365 support of fast pace the production hosted DevSecOps environments.

Must be customer-centric, goal-oriented, self-directed and have the ability to handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously with an unwavering dedication to operational excellence.
Must be a motivated, team-player with the ability to work cross functionally with a can-do and do-it-right attitude and willingness to mentor other DBAs.
Must be a self-starter and constantly thinking a way to improve the work.
Must be expert level for automation of DB management

This position s responsibilities

Participate 24x7 on call support on a weekly rotating schedule
Responsible for performance, capacity planning and HA solution
Evaluate new database features and make recommendations
Develop complex Database administration automation and monitoring scripts with shell and python
Monitor and troubleshoot MySQL and Oracle Database performance
Share knowledge and mentor other DBAs as needed
Develop and maintenance Standard Operating Procedures for DBA tasks and projects
Deploy new Sass database
Perform database upgrades and database account migrations
Periodically perform backup/recovery to validate the backup/recover procedures
Provide escalation support for database related issues
Provide technical and business guidance for complex user problems
Provide design assistance to Engineering department for new and existing releases
Attend weekly Production Support team meetings and participate team building activities.
Other duties, as assigned

Key Requirements include:

BS in a computer science
Work on 24x7 production support environment
Must have 10 years of extensive database management experience
Must have 10 years or more automation experience using shell and python
Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
Excellent written and verbal communication
Strong troubleshooting skills and able to reverse engineer process and automation skill set
Ability to commit and deliver measure result with tight projects and task timeline
Agile Scrum Experience
CI/CD deployment a plus
Good knowledge of API Restful call a plus

Key Technical Skills:

Expert experience on Oracle database 11g, 12c,18c,19c RAC Performance tuning
Expert understanding of Oracle Database best practices and internal
Good knowledge of Oracle RMAN and other backup and recovery scenarios
Expert experience in scripting language (ANT, Unix shell, perl, etc)
Proficiency at programming in at least one major programming language (Python, Java, C, C++, C#)
Expert experience on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
Ability to troubleshoot and optimize SaaS customer SQL

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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