Database Administrator

Job Description

Oracle Health and AI

Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health Applications & Infrastructure. This team will focus on product development and product strategy for Oracle Health while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an upbeat and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it an outstanding engineering centre with a focus on excellence.

The Healthcare platform is an exciting team working at the intersection of infrastructure and applications, using OCI to transform some of the largest healthcare applications in the industry. We are making healthcare better for everyone. To support this vision, we are building a platform that handles the end-to-end lifecycle, from provisioning to upgrade to termination. Providing a self-service cloud experience to the customer, we are looking for hard-working Database Administrators who are Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud, and Oracle Autonomous Database authorities. We seek Database Administrators with current experience in cloud technologies or those interested in rapidly growing their skills in the Cloud. The position will be based in India.

Title: Database Administrator

As a Database Administrator, you will be responsible for handling Oracle Health Applications & Infrastructure Databases (Prod & Non-Prod), performing basic database monitoring, and capacity management. You will triage database alerts and issues, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions. Additionally, you will be responsible for handling, maintaining, and supporting healthcare Non-production, Standby, Golden Gate, and Production databases, including setting up and maintaining database backups and monitoring and maintaining database replication.

You will apply database software updates and stand-alone hotfix to customer environments, communicate with third-party software or hardware manufacturers as needed to ensure efficient configuration and support. Candidates should have good knowledge of Oracle Database architecture, Backup and Recovery, Data Guard, Real Application Clusters, ASM, Data Pump, Patching, Performance, and SQL Tuning.

You will also develop standardised work plans, documentation, processes, and automation. Willingness to work additional hours as needed and allowed by local laws is focus to keep the lights on, ensuring customer databases are stable and performant to fulfil our contractual obligations to customers.

Additionally, you will be part of the OHAI roadmap projects, such as migrating the Database to Oracle Cloud and Autonomous Databases

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 3+ years of experience as Oracle DBA
• 2+ years of experience shipping scalable, cloud native distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Information Technology/Mathematics/Computer Science/Computer Software/Electronics/Operational Research/Computer System Engineering).
• Ability to work in a collaborative, multi-functional team environment.
• Good grasp of Computer Science concepts
• Knowledge in Python, Perl and/or Shell Scripting
• Handling production databases running on UNIX flavors (RHEL, OEL).
  
  
  

Skills:

• Oracle Database
• Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM & RAC
• Oracle Cloud
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture & Exadata.
• High availability & replication technologies (Data guard, Goldengate)
• Advanced scripting/coding skills (Shell, Perl, and Python)
• Oracle Autonomous Database
  
  
  

Oracle Health Mission Statement:

Oracle Health is putting humans at the heart of the conversation and what the healthcare experience needs to look like – for patients, providers, payers, and the population. We will facilitate this by advancing the state of the art in healthcare and population level health, make it practical, effective, and real at practitioner level by connecting everything together. This will allow a patient to get point of care from anyone, anywhere or any device by providing the practitioner medical information using global data.

Career Level – IC2

Responsibilities

Oracle’s Health and AI Database Services Team is actively seeking a reliable Database Administrator to join our dynamic team. As a Database Administrator, you will play a pivotal role in our Database Infrastructure team. This position is based in India and presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to the improvement of healthcare services within a dynamic multi-tenant cloud environment. As a Database Administrator, you will be instrumental in achieving our mission to improve healthcare services. Your key responsibilities include:

• Install, upgrade, and configure oracle database software.
• Implement and maintain sophisticated database security.
• Conduct proactive and reactive database monitoring and maintenance
• Configure, monitor, and maintain database replication.
• Set up and maintain database backups.
• Triage and troubleshoot sophisticated database alerts and issues, identify root cause, and implement corrective actions.
• Establish best practices for database tuning, performance monitoring, capacity management and automation
• Apply database software updates and stand-alone hotfixes to Customer environments
• Communicate with 3rd party software or hardware manufactures as needed to ensure efficient configuration and support.
• Contribute to strategic projects outlined in our roadmap, focusing on transitioning on-premises databases to Oracle Cloud.
• Migrate databases to the Autonomous Database, ensuring a flawless transition for efficient performance.
• Work collaboratively with multiple teams, actively participating in the execution of roadmap projects.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Career Level - IC2

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