Sr Lead Oracle DBA with Exadata, OCI, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, ASM, RMAN, GoldenGate, and Oracle Enterprise Manager. - Onsite in Reading PA.

Senior Oracl e Database Administrator (Exadata)

Job Description

The primary responsibility of this role is to design, implement, administer, and support highly available Oracl e database platforms across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. The role will focus on Oracl e Exadata, OEM, OCI, RAC, Data Guard, ASM, Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA), and related Oracl e technologies to ensure optimal performance, resiliency, security, and scalability of enterprise database systems.

This is an Individual Contributor role requiring collaboration with infrastructure, application, cloud, and enterprise architecture teams to engineer and support mission-critical Oracl e database platforms while driving modernization and migration from legacy systems.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, implement, and support Oracl e database environments on Exadata, OCI, and hybrid cloud platforms.
• Partner with Data Architects, Data Engineering, and Application teams to design, review, and optimize logical and physical data models, ensuring scalability, performance, data integrity, and alignment with enterprise data standards.
• Administer Oracl e Exadata, RAC, ASM, Data Guard, ZDLRA, and Oracl e Enterprise Manager environments.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, security, and performance of Oracl e databases.
• Lead Oracl e database migrations, upgrades, consolidations, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Support and optimize Oracl e Exadata environments, both on-premises and cloud-based.
• Perform Exadata database patching, performance tuning, capacity planning, and proactive health monitoring.
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Troubleshoot complex Oracl e database and infrastructure issues including level 4 OEM.
• Act as Level 3 support for critical production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with application teams, architects, and business stakeholders on database-related projects.
• Automate routine database administration tasks using Shell scripting, Python, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Implement database security standards, patching, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.
• Maintain database documentation, standards, operational procedures, and architecture diagrams.
• Mentor junior DBAs and provide technical leadership on Oracl e technologies.
• Support internal and external audit requirements, including SOX and compliance initiatives.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of Oracl e Database Administration experience in enterprise environments.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Oracl e Exadata administration and support.
• Extensive experience with Oracl e RAC, Data Guard, ASM, RMAN, GoldenGate, and Oracl e Enterprise Manager.
• Experience managing Oracl e databases on Oracl e Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and hybrid cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Oracl e database architecture, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and high-availability solutions.
• Experience with Oracl e database upgrades, migrations, patching, and database lifecycle management.
• Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, Unix/Linux administration, and shell scripting.
• Experience supporting mission-critical databases requiring 24x7 availability.
• Strong understanding of database security, encryption, auditing, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracl e Certified Professional (OCP) or Oracl e Certified Master (OCM).
• Oracl e Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Certification.
• Experience with Exadata Cloud Service and Autonomous Database.
• Experience with Snowflake, AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL and other enterprise database technologies.
• Experience with SOX, SOC, and audit compliance processes.

Added Bonus If You Have

• Master's degree in Information Technology or related field.
• Experience with Oracl e Exadata Cloud@Customer.
• Experience with enterprise database modernization initiatives.
• Expertise in database automation, monitoring, and observability platforms.
• Experience leading large-scale Exadata migrations and cloud adoption programs.