Oracle DBA

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator / Cloud Migration Specialist to support the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Cloud Operations and Migration Services program. This is a remote, hands‑on technical role supporting the operation, maintenance, optimisation, and migration of enterprise applications and databases within the VA Enterprise Cloud environment.

• Administer, maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, patch, optimise, and support production Oracle databases, including Oracle 12c, 19c, or later.
• Design and implement database administration procedures, maintenance standards, incident response processes, and performance‑management practices.
• Lead or support database migration planning, migration runbook development, technical validation, cutover rehearsals, production cutovers, rollback planning, and post‑migration stabilisation.
• Perform database replication, performance tuning, availability, recovery, and operational‑readiness activities.
• Use Oracle migration technologies such as Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) and related database replication, recovery, and cutover approaches.
• Support application, infrastructure, platform, security, and system‑administration teams operating VA applications in a cloud environment.
• Apply OCI operational tooling across monitoring, logging, database management, observability, identity, security, networking, storage, and disaster‑recovery domains.
• Analyse complex performance, reliability, availability, security, or operational issues and recommend solutions applicable across multiple teams.
• Create clear technical documentation, including migration runbooks, standard operating procedures, cutover plans, knowledge articles, and operational guides.
• Communicate complex technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and incident status effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Work within policy‑driven and regulated environments, with close attention to security, operational standards, compliance, and service‑level requirements.

• 6 years of hands‑on experience as an Oracle Database Administrator supporting Oracle 12c, Oracle 19c, or more recent versions in production environments.
• Demonstrated Oracle database administration expertise, including installation, configuration, maintenance, performance management, troubleshooting, backup/recovery, and day‑to‑day operational support.
• Strong database‑performance tuning experience, including diagnosis and remediation of performance issues affecting production applications.
• Direct experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, components, resources, and operational tools.
• Direct migration experience involving Oracle databases, including migration discovery, planning, validation, runbook authoring, cutover planning, rollback strategy, replication, and post‑cutover support.
• Hands‑on experience with Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM), data replication, performance tuning, and database cutover activities.
• Experience with cross‑platform database migrations, hybrid architectures, or cloud database services across OCI, AWS, Azure, or similar environments.
• Experience with at least one OCI operational‑tool category: cloud security, monitoring/logging, database management, networking, storage, disaster recovery, governance, or resource management.
• Proven ability to work independently as an SME while collaborating with application teams, cloud engineers, system administrators, security teams, project teams, and client stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a technical discipline; substantial additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident who…