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Principal Database Administrator

Responsible for the day-to-day support, performance tuning, and high availability of Oracle databases within a mission-critical stack. Partners with SRE and development teams to design resilient service architectures and act as the ultimate escalation point for complex technical issues.

Reston, Virginia, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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About the role

What will you do at Oracle?

As an Oracle DBA the role will focus on day-to-day DBA support, production

troubleshooting, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and high availability.

You'll work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full

stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas and

understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall

behavioral characteristics of production services.

Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with

focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end

performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and

implementing improvements in service architecture.

Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide

Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud

service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security,

performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack.

Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act

as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet

been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep

understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to

troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.

Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on

distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to develop a deep

understanding of services and technologies.

This Position will require being available for Shifts and Weekends

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Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and

expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And

with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that

promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company

leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why

we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with

competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life

insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to

their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the

employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for

a disability at any point, let us know by emailing

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calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

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.

Which skills does this role require?

Oracle DBAPerformance TuningBackup And RecoveryHigh AvailabilityIncident ManagementTroubleshootingVirtualizationSecurity ToolsDatabase Reliability SupportAutomationProgrammingScriptingSRE Best PracticesInfrastructure ManagementSoftware EngineeringService ArchitectureOracle DatabaseSRESite Reliability EngineeringCloud ServicesOrchestrationDistributed SystemsDatabase AdministrationSecurityResiliencyScaleSOPService TopologyOracle CloudAccessibility

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