Oracle Database Administrator, DBA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Conduct daily administration, monitoring, maintenance, and health assessments of Oracle databases.

• Design and oversee maintenance schedules, job timelines, and database housekeeping procedures.

• Perform and verify backups, restorations, and recovery processes to guarantee data integrity.

• Implement patching, version upgrades, and configuration modifications across various environments.

• Assist with schema modifications, index optimization, table upkeep, and data structure improvements.

• Diagnose performance issues, query slowdowns, and system errors in development, testing, and production settings.

• Uphold auditing, logging, encryption, and access controls in compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards.

• Record database configurations, operational methodologies, and environmental baselines.

• Partner with development teams to verify stored procedures, queries, and database interactions.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity personnel to address vulnerabilities, STIG findings, and compliance discrepancies.

• Aid in release cycles, refreshes, data migrations, and synchronization of environments.

• Offer suggestions for performance enhancement, storage efficiency, and operational productivity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must possess an active Top Secret clearance, backed by a Tier 5 background investigation.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Database Administration, or a related field.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Oracle database administration.

• Demonstrated experience with daily maintenance, patching, tuning, and operational monitoring.

• Proven experience supporting database functions across development, test, and production environments.

• Expertise in indexing, performance troubleshooting of queries, and schema management.

• Experience implementing DoD security requirements in Oracle database systems.

• Strong proficiency with Oracle Database technologies and administration tools.

• Understanding of RMF controls, STIGs, encryption, and access control implementations.

• Skilled in SQL, PL/SQL, indexing methodologies, and query optimization techniques.

• Familiarity with backup and recovery tools, RMAN, and Oracle data utilities.

• Experience using monitoring platforms and performance analytics.

• CompTIA Security+ certification is required.

• Oracle Database Administrator certification (OCA, OCP, or equivalent) is mandatory.

• Experience with IL5 cloud-hosted database environments.

• Experience supporting CI/CD or DevSecOps workflows that involve database modifications.

• Familiarity with other relational database systems.

• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills for Oracle database challenges.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaboration with technical teams.

• Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and documentation practices.

• Capability to handle multiple tasks across distributed environments.

• Dedication to secure, stable, and optimized database operations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work arrangement is fully remote.