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Title: Database Engineer III – Oracle SME
Location: Must be in Texas and willing to come onsite as needed.
Perm or Contract: 6-month CTH
Responsibilities
We are seeking a Senior Oracle Database Developer and DBA with deep expertise in Oracle environments and a strong background in automation, performance tuning, and platform reliability. This is a critical, hands-on technical role supporting the stability, modernization, and gradual reduction of Oracle systems as part of a long-term cloud transformation strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
Must Haves:
Nice-to-Haves:
Database Engineer III - Oracle SME
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Job Description
Title: Database Engineer III – Oracle SME
Location: Must be in Texas and willing to come onsite as needed.
Perm or Contract: 6-month CTH
Responsibilities
We are seeking a Senior Oracle Database Developer and DBA with deep expertise in Oracle environments and a strong background in automation, performance tuning, and platform reliability. This is a critical, hands-on technical role supporting the stability, modernization, and gradual reduction of Oracle systems as part of a long-term cloud transformation strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as our Oracle subject-matter expert (SME), guiding the team through optimization, migration, and potential decommissioning efforts.
- Design and implement automation for Oracle installation, patching, upgrades, and ongoing system maintenance using Ansible and shell scripting.
- Tune performance of Oracle databases and applications in a complex environment.
- Contribute to encryption and security implementation efforts across Oracle platforms.
- Support and maintain Oracle systems currently running on AIX, while contributing to evaluations of potential future migrations to Linux/RHEL.
- Build, troubleshoot, and optimize Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) solutions to improve our monitoring environment.
- Act as the primary escalation point and participate in an on-call rotation every five weeks.
- Collaborate with the lifecycle management, monitoring, and security teams to ensure health, compliance, and observability of critical systems.
Must Haves:
- 10+ years of experience managing and optimizing Oracle environments in enterprise settings.
- Adept understanding and execution of PL/SQL development in professional settings, at-scale.
- Advanced expertise with Ansible and shell scripting for automation.
- Proven success in performance tuning, encryption, patching, and lifecycle management of Oracle systems.
- Experience with Oracle monitoring and OEM tools; ability to build OEM from the ground up.
- Strong communicator capable of bridging technical details with broader business objectives.
- Experience supporting critical production systems with a high degree of reliability and accountability.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Certifications, such as Oracle Professional/Master, DataStax Administrator, Enterprise DB Postgres
- Exposure to cloud migration projects involving Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Experience working in hybrid cloud/on-prem environments.
- Familiarity with reducing legacy Oracle footprints in favor of SaaS or modern cloud-native solutions.
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.