Database Administrator , II, III, Senior

Role Overview:
Oracle Database Appliance Specialist

• Install, configure, and maintain Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) systems, including hardware setup, Oracle Linux, and integrated components such as Oracle ILOM and Grid Infrastructure.
• Perform patching and upgrades for ODA bundles (BIOS, firmware, drivers, Oracle Appliance Manager, and RDBMS homes) to ensure system stability and compliance.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Linux system administration and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, firewall rule configuration, and adherence to enterprise security standards for secure ODA environments.
• Show strong troubleshooting skills for complex hardware, software, and network issues, with the ability to coordinate with Oracle Support and apply best practices for high availability and security.

Provide technical expertise in the design, implementation, and maintenance of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) and data integration systems that support corporate business applications ponsible for the technical support of multiple database and middleware environments, from various vendors, that run company‑wide business applications and which are accessed by multiple departments. Participate in a team environment that provides cost‑effective IT data services to the various business units.

Work closely with other areas of IT and the Project Management Office to create an efficient, fault‑tolerant environment for corporate data.

• Maintain development, test, and production RDBMS environments.
• Plan, install, maintain, modify, and patch or upgrade database software, middleware, hardware and associated toolsets.
• Maintain knowledge of state‑of‑the‑art technology, equipment, and/or systems.
• Interact with vendor support to address and resolve issues.
• Recommend system architectures, participate in application data access layer development, configure databases, handle backup and recovery activities, monitor and tune systems, and produce reports.
• Monitor and tune relational databases to optimize their performance, resource usage, and their physical implementations for multi‑terabyte Business Intelligence systems including partitioning, bitmap indexing and materialized views; address a variety of database integration issues, including migration of data between disparate databases.
• Participate in the integration, maintenance/conversion, capacity planning, and installation of databases for new applications.
• Monitor, tune and maintain application servers and middleware to ensure efficient operation.
• Develop scripts and programming to support automated database support processes.
• Prepare, administer and copy or clone production databases to test systems.
• Collaborate with system administrators to execute failover, fallback, disaster recovery, and other procedures for high availability and system tuning.
• Monitor and maintain, in cooperation with data security administrators, database security and database security software.
• Perform data management tasks as required for extracting, loading, transforming, editing and restoring data. Prepare and present audits and reports for management.
• Maintain availability and integrity of databases through multiple access schemes; facilitate sharing of common data by overseeing proper key and index management and data dictionary maintenance.
• Monitor and manage database usage by adding data files, extending tables, managing extents, performing reorganizations, etc.
• Evaluate and recommend testing processes and evaluate new procedures, software, and hardware.
• Perform database backups, monitor and manage database backup processes, logs, and journals; install, maintain, and upgrade database software; restore and/or recover data as required.
• Provide advice to applications programmers in the effective use of database access languages; advise on troubleshooting, exception processing needs, and other data management issues.
• Create and tune SQL code, PL/SQL, stored procedures and triggers.
• Assist developers with writing and tuning SQL queries.
• Create, procure and maintain various database‑related documents such as manuals and programmers…