Senior Oracle DBA Job Maryland Heights Missouri USA,IT/Tech

Location: Maryland Heights

Hybrid 4 days onsite in Maryland Heights, MO

Our client is seeking a Senior Oracle DBA to support a large-scale enterprise environment. The role emphasizes database reliability, incident resolution, and proactive monitoring across on-premises and cloud-hosted Oracle environments. The position focuses on maintaining health, stability, and performance of mission-critical databases while partnering with application, infrastructure, and support teams. Hands-on Oracle Golden Gate experience and strong production support capabilities are essential.

The engagement is expected through December 2026 with likely extension, subject to business needs.

Rate: $60.00 to $68.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

Monitor, maintain, and improve the health, availability, and performance of Oracle database environments.
Proactively identify and resolve database issues before they impact business operations.
Investigate alerts, troubleshoot performance issues, and conduct root cause analysis.
Participate in production incident response and bridge calls to support critical issue resolution and on-call rotation.
Collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, and DBA leads to ensure database stability.
Execute day-to-day operational DBA activities including monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
Support release activities, change management, and create MOP documentation.
Assist with performance tuning, optimization, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
Contribute to cloud and modernization initiatives across hybrid environments including OCI, AWS, or GCP.
Ensure data recovery, data integrity, capacity planning, and adherence to standards and best practices.

Experience Requirements:

10+ years of Oracle DBA experience in large enterprise environments.
Strong production support and operational database administration background.
Hands-on experience with Oracle Golden Gate.
Expertise troubleshooting performance, availability, and stability issues in production.
Proven incident management experience supporting mission-critical databases.
Strong understanding of database monitoring, health checks, and proactive maintenance.
Experience with Oracle patching, upgrades, migrations, and high availability.
Public cloud experience with OCI, AWS, or GCP and hybrid cloud database support.
Effective communication and collaboration with technical and business stakeholders.