Basic/ Essential Qualifications:
- Experience as a Senior Level Database Administrator, with a focus on Oracle and similar database technologies such as PostgreSQL or MS-SQL.
- Proven track record of implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams.
- Expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e. g. , ESAAS, Grafana, Prometheus, ) with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
- Experience in implementing modern DevOps and SRE practices in enterprise environments.
- Proven expertise in SQL query optimization and database performance tuning at scale.
- Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
- Recognized as a Oracle subject matter expert, serving as the technical escalation for complex database issues.
- Proven experience in executing database migration strategies at enterprise-scale.
- Exceptional collaboration skills with executives and cross-functional teams.
- Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime.
- Expert knowledge of database administration on Oracle.
- Expert in multiple versions of Oracle - 11g, 12c, 19c.
- Expert knowledge of RMAN, Dataguard, Database Performance Tuning, OEM, plus third-party products such as Imperva.
- Understand and meet the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack.
- Responsible for debugging the code in case any bug is reported in the Oracle product and fixing the infrastructure/database related issues.
- Hands-on as DevOps on Ansible, Python, PL SQL coding.
- Focus on resilience, scaling, reliability, uptime, and robustness.
- Strong technical skills in areas such as Oracle system administration, networking, cloud infrastructure, automation, and monitoring tools.
- Expert knowledge of Real Application Cluster with Maximum Availability setup.
- Must exhibit SME expertise in solving database contention, Performance Tuning problems (Slow sql response, slow database response etc).
- Database, RAC, OEM, OID installation, configuration and integration.
- Database Upgrade, Migration with ZDLR and Patching.
- Expertise in Goldengate configuration, troubleshooting.
- Database Security policies, fine grained auditing.
- Must have extensive experience as Production support Oracle Database Administrator - strong experience in handling large, high volume and high criticality environments.
- Demonstrate extensive expertise in performance tuning including both query and database optimization.
- Knowledge of the ITIL framework, vocabulary and best practices.
- Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
Desirable skillsets/ good to have:
- Working experience in a financial environment.
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Oracle Certified Performance Tuning Expert - Oracle 19c, 12c or 11g.
- Oracle Certified Maximum Availability Expert - Oracle 19c, 12c or 11g.
- Experience of working in a highly regulated environment and the associated processes and tools.
- Expert in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
- Expert expertise with scripting languages (e. g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.
- AWS Certified Database - Specialty certification is a plus.
