Senior Database Administrator

at Oracle in Boise, Idaho, United States

Job Description

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed, highly available services, and virtualized infrastructure. To support this vision, we are building a platform that manages the end-to-end lifecycle, from provisioning to upgrade to termination, and provides a self-service cloud experience to the customer. We are looking for passionate engineers who are Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud, Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Data Management (Partitioning, Compression), and Exadata experts. We seek engineers with current experience in cloud technologies or those interested in expanding their skills in the Cloud.

Oracle Health's Database Services Team is a client-facing organization supporting 400+ customers databases originating from various geographies. The new position is part of the Database Service team based in the United States and is tasked with helping us migrate mission critical database systems to the cloud. Our customers, who depend on our cloud infrastructure to operate their businesses, deserve exceptional services as we strive to reduce overall healthcare spending, aligning with our broader mission. To achieve this mission and ensure outstanding services for OHAI customers, we've outlined a clear roadmap. This includes strategic projects to transition existing millennium and non-millennium database on-premises databases to Oracle Cloud and Autonomous Database.

This role owns critical system changes and projects include Oracle database upgrades, cloud migrations, major/minor patching, OS upgrades, host migrations, and other projects. An Ideal candidate will have experience migrating the Oracle Database to OCI on Exadata Cloud Service and Autonomous Database platforms through physical and logical migration methods.

Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

+ At least 5+ years of experience as Oracle DBA

+ Bachelor's degree/master's degree (Information Technology/Mathematics/Computer Science/Computer Software/Electronics/Operational Research/Computer System Engineering).

+ Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.

+ Strong grasp of database upgrade, standby, and goldengate

+ Knowledge in Python, Perl and/or Shell Scripting

+ Managing production databases running on UNIX flavors (RHEL, OEL).

+ You are experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols.

+ Experience with production operations and best practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise

+ Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)

+ Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services.

Skills:

+ Oracle Database

+ Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM & RAC

+ Dataguard

+ ZDM

+ Oracle Cloud

+ Oracle Exadata

+ Oracle Autonomous Database

+ Oracle Data Management (Partitioning, Compression)

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture & Exadata.

+ High availability & replication technologies (Data guard, Goldengate)

+ Advanced scripting/coding skills (Shell, Perl, and Python)

+ Understanding of REST Architecture and JSON is a plus.

+ Building and managing Linux OS systems with good understanding how the Linux kernel works (IO, Network, etc.) and ability to read and understand source code.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the United States only

Hiring Range: from $36.54 to $76.06 per hour; from $76,000 to $158,200 per annum. May be eligible for equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

About Us

An Oracle career can span industries, roles, Countries and cultures, giving you the opportunity to flourish in new roles and innovate, while blending work life in. Oracle has thrived through 40+ years of change by innovating and operating with integrity while delivering for the top companies in almost every industry.

In order to nurture the talent that makes this happen, we are committed to an inclusive culture that celebrates and values diverse insights and perspectives, a workforce that inspires thought leadership and innovation.

Oracle offers a highly competitive suite of Employee Benefits designed on the principles of parity, consistency, and affordability. The overall package includes certain core elements such as Medical, Life Insurance, access to Retirement Planning, and much more. We also encourage our employees to engage in the culture of giving back to the communities where we live and do business.

At Oracle, we believe that innovation starts with diversity and inclusion and to create the future we need talent from various backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to successfully participate in the job application, interview process, and in potential roles. to perform crucial job functions.

That's why we're committed to creating a workforce where all individuals can do their best work. It's when everyone's voice is heard and valued that we're inspired to go beyond what's been done before.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer * . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.