Senior Oracle Database Administrator

The role is fully remote, on full employment contract

We are looking for a strong Senior Oracle DBA to join our team as a DBA / Site Reliability Engineer who will help ensure the availability of our Cloud Services 24x7x365. The role's only required experience is in Oracle Database administration, but any experience in SRE/DevOps is very appreciated.

In this role, you would be doing a mix of DBA and Site Reliability Engineering so it's a perfect chance to gain working experience in SRE and expand the skillset. It would also be a great opportunity to transition into Site Reliability Engineering.

On-call is not currently present but may be implemented in the future.

Experience we are looking for:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Oracle DBA, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and on-call rotations, working on highly scalable distributed systems
• Experience with Linux OS
• Experience with Oracle Database, RAC, DataGuard
• Experience with Exadata
• Experience with Oracle Database Performance Tuning
• Experience with Oracle Sharding is preferred but not required
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or other Cloud Service Provider,
• Experience in cloud technical support, operations, NOC, or similar is preferred, but not required
• Experience troubleshooting complex software and/or networking issues
• Customer obsession, passion for delighting customers
• Experience working with government customers is preferred, but not required
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technical domains and then train others
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Willingness to learn:
• Orchestration/automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Chef, etc.)
• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deploying code using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, within change management procedures

Willingness to learn:

• Orchestration/automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Chef, etc.)
• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deploying code using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, within change management procedures