Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Job#: 3034020

Job Description:

Senior Oracle Database Administrator

About the Role

In this role, you will help modernize and strengthen database platforms that support critical business operations-enabling scalable, secure, and reliable applications.

You'll join a collaborative engineering environment where innovative thinking and problem-solving are encouraged. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to both day-to-day operations and long-term strategy for large-scale database systems.

Role Overview

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will play a key role in managing and evolving complex database environments in a fast-paced, agile setting. You will work closely with engineering and product teams to support production systems, improve performance, and drive automation.

This is a hands-on role spanning database administration, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical mentorship.

What You'll Do

• Support and enhance Oracle (primary), PostgreSQL, and SQL Server environments across development and production
• Perform database maintenance, lifecycle management, migrations, upgrades, and automation
• Drive performance tuning and optimization, including indexing strategies, workload analysis, and capacity planning
• Partner on patching and change management, including scheduled after-hours and weekend maintenance
• Troubleshoot production issues end-to-end and implement long-term fixes to prevent recurrence
• Support high availability and disaster recovery, including failover readiness and validation
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, including weekends, as scheduled
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational best practices
• Mentor and support junior team members through coaching and technical guidance
• Contribute to strategic planning and continuous improvement, including automation and standardization efforts

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on Oracle Database Administration experience
  • Including RAC (Real Application Clusters), ASM, and Data Guard
• Experience across development and production DBA responsibilities, including upgrades, migrations, patching, monitoring, and backup/recovery
• Proficiency with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and GoldenGate
• Advanced SQL and PL/SQL skills with a focus on performance tuning
• Knowledge of database security practices, including access control, auditing, and compliance
• Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Shell, Perl, PowerShell)
• Experience supporting high-availability and disaster recovery environments
• Experience with ETL/data movement processes for large datasets
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Remedy, and Microsoft Teams
• Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub, GitHub Actions)
• Strong technical documentation skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Willingness to support after-hours and weekend work aligned to operational needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PostgreSQL administration (on-prem and/or cloud environments)
• Experience with SQL Server administration and performance tuning
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Foglight
• Experience designing enterprise solutions for backup, monitoring, alerting, and security compliance
• Background in highly regulated industries (e.g., financial services)
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) certification
• Proven experience mentoring team members and contributing to team standards
• Experience leveraging automation or AI tools for process improvement

Why Join This Role?

• Work on high-impact, mission-critical systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
• Influence both technical execution and long-term platform strategy
• Grow your leadership and technical expertise

EEO Employer

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.