Oracle Database Administrator
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As part of the SRE and Cloud Operations team, this role helps support all of the critical relational and nonrelational systems that power our advanced search and retrieval systems. Our systems are primarily hosted in the AWS cloud and we manage and maintain a large set of databases technologies to support our business.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree (Information Systems, Computer Science/Engineering)
• At least 2 years of overall DBA experience (Oracle/PostgreSQL)
• Experience with automation and IaC tools like CloudFormation and Terraform is desirable
• Scripting capability (Python, BASH, JavaScript, Go etc.)
• Must be willing to participate in on-call rotation
Responsibilities:
As a key member of the SRE and Cloud Operations team, you will use your database and AWS experience in the following areas:
• Automate the creation of standard database configurations for a wide variety of platforms including Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server
• Maintain, support and upgrade database systems as required
• Work with AWS to coordinate mandatory version upgrades
• Assist development teams with migrations between database platforms e.g. moving Oracle databases to Postgres
• Troubleshoot performance issues and assist development teams with query optimizations
• Participate in 24x7 on-call support rotation
• Manage all capacity decisions for production deployments including technology selection, high availability configuration, storage and compute needs, etc.
- • Assimilate knowledge in support of non-relational databases like DocumentDB, Dynamo, Apache Solr, Cassandra, Redis etc.