Job Title : Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)
Job Type : 1099/C2C contract
Bill Rate : $80/Hr on c2c
Location : Wiscasset, ME, USA
Duration : 12 months
Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) to join a highly collaborative team responsible for supporting critical database environments across development, test, and production systems. This role focuses heavily on database performance, stability, monitoring, and operational support. The ideal candidate will bring strong Oracle administration expertise, a proactive approach to problem solving, and excellent communication skills.
- “Excellent comm skills are an absolute must – both verbal and written. They do not want someone that speaks super fast and is hard to understand. Please rank the comm skills for Zalak and Mintu on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being poor and 10 being flawless (easy to understand, don’t have to ask them to repeat themselves).
- Need folks coming from large enterprise environments. Want them to have led or managed a team! Exp with forecasting, roadmapping, budgeting, working with maintenance contracts.
- Want people willing to step in, be outgoing, don’t wait to be told what to do”
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as an Oracle DBA
- Hands-on experience with Oracle GoldenGate
- Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, OCI, Google Cloud Platform, or similar)
- Proven experience troubleshooting and resolving database performance issues
- Strong SQL tuning and query optimization experience
- Experience performing database health checks, proactive monitoring, and routine DBA administration
- Strong knowledge of database backup, recovery, maintenance, and performance management
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Oracle database migrations and upgrades
- While a separate team primarily handles migrations and upgrades, this experience is highly valued and may provide opportunities to support those initiatives as business needs arise.
Key Responsibilities
- Create and maintain Oracle databases across development, test, and production environments
- Perform daily database health checks and proactive monitoring to identify and address issues before they impact users
- Troubleshoot database issues and implement performance improvements
- Conduct SQL tuning and performance optimization as needed
- Analyze, test, and implement physical database designs
- Ensure database integrity, availability, backup, recovery, and security requirements are met
- Apply and maintain database patches and document environment changes
- Conduct capacity planning and recommend database best practices and standards
- Perform database audits and help establish operational procedures and standards
- Partner with application owners, system administrators, developers, architects, and technical leadership to support business-critical applications
Day-to-Day Activities
- Collaborate directly with application owners and technical teams
- Monitor database environments and respond to alerts
- Perform daily health checks and proactive maintenance
- Troubleshoot database-related issues and implement corrective actions
- Tune SQL queries and improve database performance
- Participate in an on-call support rotation (approximately every 6 weeks)
- On-call responsibilities focus on monitoring and responding to alerts
- No regular night or weekend work is required
Soft Skills
- Clear and concise communication skills
- Strong accountability and ownership mentality
- Reliable, dependable, and responsive team player
- Self-motivated with a proactive approach to problem solving
- Strong work ethic and commitment to delivering high-quality support
- This is an excellent opportunity for a senior Oracle DBA who enjoys operational excellence, performance tuning, and proactive database management in a modern cloud-enabled environment.
Equal Opportunity Employer : We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
