Manager, Database Administration

** Job Description*
* The role will focus on improving database availability, reducing customer impact, strengthening recovery capabilities, enhancing operational efficiency, and eliminating repetitive manual tasks through automation. The manager will also lead key database modernization and transformation initiatives, including ExaCC migrations, OCI transformation, and Gen2 transformation. This work will help ensure smooth migrations, improved scalability, and enhanced reliability across database environments.

A key responsibility will be reviewing, standardizing, and continuously improving existing standard operating procedures (SOPs), operational workflows, and automation practices to drive consistency, reduce operational overhead, and improve service delivery. The manager will promote proactive problem management, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the database infrastructure.

The manager will lead a geographically distributed team and collaborate closely with database operations, application development, architecture, security, and cloud engineering teams. The manager will help execute the database reliability and modernization roadmap, drive technology transformation, and maintain a stable, scalable, and resilient database platform.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Key responsibilities*
* ** People leadership:
** Recruit, coach, and develop database engineers. Establish clear responsibilities, build technical expertise, and support career growth.

** Reliability strategy:
** Own the team's operational stability improvement roadmap. Use incident history, customer impact, and technical risk to prioritize work, assign owners, and track improvements through completion.

** SRE practices:
** Define and measure service reliability objectives, detection and recovery performance, recurring incidents, and operational toil. Translate identified gaps into engineering actions.

** Event management:
** Oversee database monitoring, initial triage, runbook execution, and escalation. Maintain effective coverage and shift handoffs while coordinating with the established incident management function.

** Incident prevention:
** Ensure thorough root cause analysis and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions. Partner with product and infrastructure teams to address systemic issues instead of relying on repeated mitigation.

** Database modernization:
** Lead the team's delivery of ExaCC migrations and broader OCI initiatives. Prioritize high-risk environments and ensure appropriate sizing, testing, migration readiness, and operational handover.

** Disaster recovery:
** Drive standby deployments in OCI and ExaCS, backup and restore validation, and regular failover exercises. Measure recovery capabilities against agreed-upon recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) targets.

** SQL performance:
** Advance Gen1 and Gen2 performance programs through execution plan analysis, query tuning, SQL Plan Management, and workload optimization. Address CPU-intensive SQL, contention, excessive cursor usage, and recurring regressions.

** Golden Gate reliability:
** Strengthen replication monitoring, troubleshooting, recovery, and migration support. Reduce recurring replication failures and delays.

** Maintenance reliability:
** Expand automation for database, Grid Infrastructure, and operating system patching. Establish pre-checks, post-change validation, controlled rollouts, and tested rollback procedures.

** Capacity and configuration:
** Improve N+1 readiness, CPU and storage forecasting, and database growth management. Establish configuration baselines and detect and remediate unexpected configuration drift.

** Automation and observability:
** Deliver reusable tools, actionable…