Senior Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

1. Enterprise Database Engineering

• Provide engineering ownership and technical leadership for enterprise Oracle database platforms across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.


• Design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve enterprise database platforms to meet business availability, scalability, security, and resiliency requirements.


• Develop and maintain engineering standards, operational governance, technical documentation, and best practices across the Database Engineering organization.


• Drive platform standardization, automation, observability, and engineering excellence to improve service quality and operational efficiency.

2. Platform Reliability & Operations

• Engineer and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions using Oracle RAC, Data Guard, ASM, RMAN, GoldenGate, and related enterprise technologies.


• Lead database lifecycle management activities, including provisioning, patching, upgrades, migrations, decommissioning, capacity planning, and technology refresh initiatives.


• Monitor and optimize database performance using Oracle Enterprise Manager, AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL diagnostics, and operating system analysis.


• Troubleshoot complex database, infrastructure, storage, operating system, and application interaction issues affecting production services.

3. Engineering Governance & Security

• Lead database security, governance, compliance, audit readiness, privileged access management, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and data protection initiatives.


• Support enterprise architecture reviews, engineering standards, vendor risk assessments, technology governance, and regulatory compliance activities.


• Ensure engineering solutions align with enterprise security, operational, and technology standards.

4. Technology Modernization

• Lead and support strategic engineering initiatives, including cloud adoption, database modernization, EOSL remediation, automation, Infrastructure as Code, observability, AI-assisted operations, and platform optimization.


• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend engineering improvements that enhance platform reliability, efficiency, and operational maturity.


• Drive continuous service improvement through automation, simplification, and engineering innovation.

5. Technical Leadership

• Provide senior technical leadership during major incidents, complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and enterprise-wide technical investigations.


• Lead technical engagement with Oracle, Microsoft, cloud providers, managed service partners, and other technology vendors to resolve complex engineering issues.


• Provide engineering consultation and technical leadership for enterprise projects, technology transformations, and solution architecture reviews.


• Mentor engineers, perform technical reviews, and promote engineering excellence across the Database Engineering organization.

6. Collaboration

• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, application, cybersecurity, architecture, monitoring, service delivery, and project teams to successfully deliver enterprise initiatives.


• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure operational readiness, risk management, and successful project implementation.


• Support Change Management, Major Incident Management, Problem Management, and Continuous Service Improvement activities.