Oracle Cloud Database Administrator (Exadata/ExaCS) Production DBA - Austin Texas

Job Description

As an Oracle Cloud Database Administrator (Exadata/ExaCS) Production DBA, 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.

Our DBA team focuses on creating, configuring, and maintaining Oracle database servers on bare metal, ExaCS, and autonomous databases in Oracle Cloud (OCI). Database Administrator manages our ever-growing farm of production databases and other technologies that are essential to the operation of NetSuite’s cloud service. Work closely with operations engineers and application developers to ensure database integrity, availability, and performance.

This role is office reporting to Austin, TX for the first 6 months with a possibility of hybrid after the initial 6-month period.

Requirements:

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.

5-10 years of professional experience and a general awareness of Oracle best practices.

Oracle administration skills in a Linux/UNIX environment.

Oracle Database Cloud (18c, 19c, 21c), Exadata / ExaCS, Autonomous database experience.

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.

Should be comfortable deploying and maintaining large scale database systems (perform audits, troubleshoot issues, apply patches, perform major upgrades).

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.

Must be local and commutable to Austin location – office reporting for the first 6-months with a possibility of hybrid after that period.

Must be willing to work on-call according to schedule rotation.

Career Level - IC3

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.

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 stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from $38.03 to $76.06 per hour; from: $79,100 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 US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

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

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

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.

11 paid holidays

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.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

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