Database Administrator

The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company’s unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health®. Sotera Health Company is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year.

Across our 64 facilities worldwide, we have over 3,000 employees who are dedicated to safety and quality. We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including more than 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies.

Reporting to the Manager of Database Services and Application, the Database Administrator role is responsible for managing Oracle and SQL server databases, ensuring their availability, performance, security, and reliability. Key responsibilities include database upgrades, patching, backups, recovery, and disaster recovery.

The role also supports Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), responsible for the EBS application tier in administration, maintenance, patching, cloning and upgrade. Collaboration with technical teams, participation in change management, and production support are essential aspects of the position.

• Administer, maintain, monitor and support Oracle databases and SQL server databases, to ensure high availability, performance, security, and reliability of business-critical applications.
• Perform database configuration, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery, cloning, and migration activities for databases.
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve database-related issues, bottlenecks, and incidents.
• Optimize database performance through SQL tuning, execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, and capacity planning.
• Perform database backup and recovery, configure and design high availability, and disaster recovery solutions using Oracle technologies such as RMAN and Data Guard.
• Implement and maintain database security controls, including encryption (TDE), auditing, privileged access management, and compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain Linux/Power Shell scripts to automate database administration tasks, monitoring, backup processes, performance reporting, and routine system maintenance.
• Support and maintain transactional replication and performance tuning activities in SQL server environments.
• Support Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) application tier, including cloning, patching, and environment maintenance activities, where applicable.
• Collaborate with application development, and infrastructure teams to design, deploy, and optimize database solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
• Participate in change management, release management, and production support processes, including after-hours support and incident response when required.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing status updates, technical guidance, and recommendations on database-related matters.

Minimum 3-5 years of demonstrated hands-on Oracle database administration experience in mission-critical enterprise environments a must. 3-5 years of hands-on database experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server environments, including administration, monitoring, backup and recovery, transactional replication and performance optimization. Demonstrated experience with Oracle database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching,…