Oracle Database Administrator

About the Company/Team

Oracle Customer Success Services (CSS) is a global organization dedicated to helping customers maximize the value of their Oracle technology investments. Operating under the One Oracle philosophy, CSS brings together cross-functional expertise to deliver innovation-led, customer-centric solutions across the Oracle ecosystem.

As part of CSS, you will join a global network of certified professionals supporting mission-critical systems for leading enterprises. The team fosters collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence, enabling professionals to deepen their expertise while delivering measurable business impact for customers, particularly in highly regulated industries such as banking and financial services.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to support, optimize, and manage enterprise-grade Oracle database environments. The role involves database administration, high availability, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, migrations, and operational support for business-critical systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Oracle Database, RAC, Data Guard, ASM, and database performance management, with exposure to engineered systems such as Exadata. Awareness of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Exadata Cloud@Customer, GoldenGate, and automation practices will be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain Oracle database environments across production and non-production systems.

• Manage Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, and high availability configurations to ensure resilience and continuity.

• Perform database performance tuning, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and proactive health checks.

• Plan and execute database patching, version upgrades, migrations, and platform refresh activities.

• Support backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and failover strategies for mission-critical workloads.

• Work with customer and internal teams to resolve complex database incidents, service requests, and operational issues.

• Provide technical recommendations to improve database stability, security, scalability, and performance.

• Contribute to process improvement through documentation, automation, and adoption of best practices.

Mandatory Skills

• RAC

• Data Guard

• Performance Tuning

Qualifications & Skills

• Strong experience in Oracle Database Administration.

• Hands-on expertise in Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, and high availability architecture.

• Proven experience in database performance tuning and troubleshooting.

• Experience with database patching, upgrades, and migrations.

• Strong understanding of backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and operational support practices.

• Ability to support mission-critical enterprise systems in complex customer environments.

• Good communication skills with the ability to work effectively with customers, internal teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Exposure to Oracle GoldenGate.

• Experience or working knowledge of Oracle Engineered Systems, especially Exadata.

• Awareness of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Exadata Cloud@Customer, and cloud-based database services.

• Knowledge of DevOps practices, scripting, and automation for database operations.

• Experience supporting banking, financial services, or other regulated industry environments.

• Oracle certifications in database administration, cloud, or engineered systems.

Job Details

• Job title: Oracle DBA

• Location: Bengaluru

• Employment type: Contract