Oracle Database Administrator

Oracle Database Administrator -22000DFA

**Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages***: English

**Preferred Qualifications**

As an Oracle Database Administrator, you will be part of Cloud Hosting Operations team, responsible for all aspects of database administration for our production and development database environments that support over 20k NetSuite Cloud customers.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide support for large scale, high-performance Oracle database instances across production and development environments.
- Focus on automation to improve availability and scalability in our production environments.
- Help architect existing and new services in our production environments.
- Manage database replication (Oracle Data Guard) and maintain high availability.
- Help author tools that reliably manage database infrastructure.
- Leverage a framework/tools to rollout infrastructure changes and perform routine maintenances.
- Support current security and compliance activities for our Database Infrastructure.
- Design and execute overall database architecture strategy, standards and practices as part of a team.
- Proactively identify areas for optimization and troubleshoot database performance issues.
- Work closely with Application Development team to ensure database changes adhere to best practices and are properly prioritized and scheduled.
- Improve service availability and scalability through tuning, automation, tools, and process.
- Deploy, administer and maintain Cloud database solutions (DbaaS) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Implement and maintain database backup and recovery, disaster recovery procedures.
- Serve in an on-call rotation as an escalation contact for critical production issues.

**Requirements**:

- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
- 3-10 years of professional experience and a general awareness of Oracle best practices.
- Oracle administration skills in a Linux/UNIX environment.
- Strong understanding and hands-on experience of database infrastructure (backup/recovery using RMAN, Data Guard, high availability, Oracle RAC, SAN and Network).
- Strong understanding of hardware performance, memory and I/O.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with conducting SQL and DB performance tuning, scalability/capacity planning.
- Solid experience with SQL/PLSQL, UNIX shell scripting, Python or similar.
- Good understanding and hands-on experience with deploying and maintaining Cloud database solutions - DbaaS and ExaCS in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or other cloud solutions/hosting providers like Azure or AWS.
- Must have excellent communication and technical documentation skills.
- Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced, agile team environment.
- Ability to produce quality work on tight schedules.
- Ability to solve problems, make sound decisions and use good judgement.
- Must be able to provide on-call support on rotation schedule.

**Detailed Description and Job Requirements**

Provide Development and/or Production support. This includes creating primary database storage structures, designing and creating primary objects, modifying database structure as necessary for enhancements or performance, creating documentation, designing interfaces, database objects, and creating plans. Monitor and optimize performance of the database, plan for backup and recovery of the database, and allocate system storage and plan future storage needs. Create database-related scripts and programs to support development and production environments. Research, evaluate, design, test, recommend, and plan implementation of new or improved RDBMS, ETL and database tools.

Job duties are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years of experience supporting relational databases as a DBA, with multiple distributed relational DBSM*s or a depth and focus in Oracle and related tools. Exposure and practice at using the DBMS to optimize performance of large databases for enterprise use is preferred. Experience with an organization with a key 24 X 7 reliance on its database is desirable. BS or equivalent desired.

**Oracle is an Affirmative Action-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, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.**

**Job**: Information Technology

**Location**: MX-MX,Mexico-Guadalajara/Zapopan

**Job Type**: Regular Employee Hire

**Organization**: Oracle