Database Administrator

Role Overview

This database administration role keeps business-critical databases secure, available, and responsive. You will investigate performance issues, maintain database standards, support design and change work, and strengthen resilience through careful capacity, backup, and recovery planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain database standards, policies, and operational procedures.
• Support database design, implementation, testing, upgrades, and patching.
• Monitor availability, workload, transaction volumes, response times, and concurrency; investigate incidents and recurring problems.
• Improve database performance through tuning, indexing, object management, and routine housekeeping.
• Configure alerts and event triggers to surface emerging performance, availability, or data-integrity concerns.
• Plan and maintain backup, archiving, storage, and recovery approaches, including high-availability environments.
• Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access; conduct quarterly access reviews and support audit requirements.
• Apply security controls such as encryption, masking, whitelisting, and activity monitoring; investigate security events, preserve audit trails, and resolve audit findings.

Requirements & Qualifications

• At least five years of database administration experience, including support for production systems.
• A degree in Science, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Oracle Certified Associate or Oracle Certified Professional certification in Database Administration, version 19c or later.
• Experience with Oracle high-availability technologies such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.
• Experience planning or delivering database migrations, including between versions, platforms, or on-premises and cloud environments.
• Experience supporting 24/7 production services and participating in on-call rotations.
• ITIL Intermediate qualification.
• OCI certifications, such as OCI Foundations or Architect Associate, are relevant for cloud-focused work; familiarity with OCI, AWS, or Azure is an advantage.