Job Description
Job Title: Senior DBA
Length: 12 months
Location: Atlanta, NYC, Chicago, Boston or Houston, 4 days onsite per week
Seeking a highly skilled and experienced Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC) Database Administrator (DBA) consultant to support a multi-year initiative to implement and operationalize ExaCC as an enterprise database platform for multiple applications and business services.
The successful candidate will be a hands-on technical implementer with deep Oracle database engineering expertise and demonstrated experience delivering ExaCC environments from implementation through database migration and onboarding, stabilization, and transition to production operations.
Oracle DBA depth (7+ years): Hands-on RAC, ASM, Clusterware, patching, upgrades, backup/recovery, and advanced performance tuning (SQL, wait events, I/O, Exadata features).
Exadata Cloud@Customer delivery: Has implemented and operated ExaCC end to end, from provisioning and readiness checks to production handover, plus OCI tenancy admin (IAM, compartments, VCN/networking, monitoring, Object Storage).
Migration and cutover: Plans and runs Oracle database migrations, covering assessment, method selection, rehearsal, validation, cutover, rollback, and post-migration stabilization with app owners.
GoldenGate, Data Guard and HA/DR: Builds and troubleshoots GoldenGate replication (Extract/Replicat, initial loads, lag, abends, resync) and Data Guard standby setups (switchover, failover, DR testing). Knows when to use RAC vs. Data Guard vs. GoldenGate.
Operational readiness and communication: OEM monitoring, scripting and automation, runbooks and documentation, change, incident and security/audit discipline, and clear status reporting to technical and project stakeholders.--
