database administrator Austin, TX
Job description
Oracle is looking for a Principal Engineer with world-class experience in supporting large scale cloud deployments and deploying business continuity solutions across the world. The candidate should have expert level knowledge of Oracle DB Administration, DB replication functionality and enterprise application management. The position is part of SaaS Engineering organization and provides a unique opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies, tools, products and cloud services.
Organization: SaaS Engineering
Oracle Cloud is a suite of Oracle applications, middleware and database offerings delivered in a self-service, subscription-based, elastically scalable, reliable, highly available and secure manner. The Oracle Cloud is an enterprise cloud for business. It is an integrated suite of services spanning Oracle's complete portfolio based on open Java and SQL standards offering flexible cloud deployments.
- Develop and deploy Business Continuity Solutions across the hosted regions.
- Engineer solutions so that services are compliant and meet/exceed the service level agreements.
- Develop the solutions so that fleet wide deployment, tracking and updates can be done.
- Resolve the service disruptions, execute planned maintenances and conduct trainings across the teams.
- Collaborate with various teams during Service outages, capacity expansion, infrastructure maintenance as well as ensure adherence to production deployment standards.
- Automate operational tasks/deployments, develop scalable solutions contribute towards transition to algorithmic IT operations.
- 10 years of core DBA or Apps DBA experience
- Experience in Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture practices to meet recovery time objective and recovery point object for Oracle databases and applications running on Oracle systems and database platforms using Oracle Cloud.
- Expert level knowledge in the deployment and support of infrastructure and applications.
- Technical skills and knowledge that extends across Application/Server/Storage/Network technologies to troubleshoot and provide system level guidance/solutions
- Exposure to application server concepts and technologies like Weblogic, Tomcat, networking concepts is highly desirable.
- Experience in Golden Gate and Exadata is preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Certification
- Good Knowledge on Incidents/Request and change management process
- Exposure to OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager)
- Certification(s) in a Database administration in any distribution.
- Experience with automated service deployment tools
