Senior Oracle DBA; Remote

Position: Senior Oracle DBA (100% Remote)
Description Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Oracle DBA (100% Remote).

Summary:

Our client, a healthcare organization, is seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to support large-scale, high-transaction Oracle database environments supporting enterprise applications. This is a hands-on senior-level position focused on the reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational stability of business-critical Oracle platforms. The ideal candidate has extensive experience supporting Oracle at significant scale and can independently diagnose complex database issues, optimize performance, maintain highly available environments, and support critical production systems.

Duties:
* Administer and support large-scale production Oracle database environments
* Manage database provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle activities
* Maintain and troubleshoot high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including Oracle RAC and Data Guard
* Perform database backup, restore, recovery, and validation activities
* Monitor database health, availability, capacity, resource utilization, and performance
* Diagnose and resolve complex database, SQL, PL/SQL, and performance issues
* Analyze and tune SQL queries to improve database and application performance
* Support production releases, application deployments, and database changes
* Implement and maintain database security controls, user access, and compliance requirements
* Troubleshoot production incidents and drive issues through root-cause resolution
* Collaborate with application and engineering teams on schema design, query optimization, and database performance
* Support Oracle cloud environments and OCI-related database initiatives Requirements
* 10+ years of relevant experience administering Oracle database environments
* Extensive hands-on experience supporting enterprise-scale, production Oracle databases
* Direct experience supporting databases of 30+ TB
* Hands-on experience administering Oracle environments such as 11g, 12c, and/or 19c
* Hands-on experience with Oracle high availability and disaster recovery, including RAC and Data Guard
* Strong experience with enterprise backup, restore, and recovery processes
* Experience supporting high-throughput database environments handling approximately 80,000 transactions per second
* Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and/or Oracle databases in cloud environments
* Experience with Oracle performance diagnostics, troubleshooting, and tuning
* Experience managing Oracle database patching, upgrades, and lifecycle operations
* Experience supporting production releases and resolving complex database incidents
* Working knowledge of database security, access controls, and compliance requirements
* Strong knowledge of Oracle RDBMS architecture and administration
* Strong PL/SQL and SQL troubleshooting and query-optimization skills

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience supporting complex, highly available, business-critical Oracle environments
* Experience working closely with application teams on schema design and database performance optimization
* Experience with database capacity planning and resource forecasting
* Broader experience supporting Oracle databases across both on-premises and cloud environments

Job Type Contract Compensation
64 - $74