Senior Oracle Database Administrator

We are seeking an experienced database professional to lead the strategy, architecture, and ongoing evolution of a complex Oracle environment. In this senior individual contributor role, you will shape technical standards and drive improvements in performance, security, reliability, automation, and cloud adoption. You will take ownership of critical production systems while guiding modernization initiatives and reducing technical debt. Working closely with engineering, product, and external service partners, you will strengthen operational resilience and database governance. This is an opportunity to influence long-term technical direction, mentor colleagues, and build scalable practices across a growing technology environment.

• 8+ years of Oracle database administration experience supporting complex production environments.

• Advanced expertise in Oracle performance tuning, SQL optimization, and query-plan analysis.

• Strong knowledge of Oracle technologies, including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, Exadata, and partitioning.

• Working familiarity with PL/SQL, including the ability to review, troubleshoot, and advise on database-resident code.

• Strong relational database architecture, design, and data-modeling skills.

• Experience with backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery planning and testing.

• Knowledge of database security, auditing, access management, and compliance-oriented environments such as PCI.

• Ability to diagnose complex performance and reliability issues across applications and database infrastructure.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, prioritization, and mentoring skills, with the ability to make technical risks and recommendations clear to different stakeholders.

• A proactive, ownership-oriented approach to problem-solving, continuous improvement, automation, and knowledge sharing.

• Pragmatism when modernizing mature systems, balancing immediate operational needs with long-term architectural improvements.

• Experience developing or executing Oracle modernization and cloud migration strategies.

• Experience with Oracle workloads in AWS, including Oracle DB@AWS.

• Familiarity with AWS RDS, Aurora, or other cloud-native database technologies.

• Ability to assess which workloads should remain on Oracle and which may be suitable for alternative database platforms.

• Experience with data pipeline and transformation technologies.

• Familiarity with Datadog or comparable database monitoring and observability platforms.

• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or an equivalent Oracle certification.

• Experience with SaaS, transaction-intensive, fundraising, payment, financial, or other mission-critical software platforms.

• Background in a small or mid-sized technology organization where senior technical contributors work across functional boundaries.

• Experience automating database administration, monitoring, deployment, or operational processes.