Principal Database Administrator

As an Oracle DBA the role will focus on day-to-day DBA support, production troubleshooting, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and high availability.  You'll work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas and understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services. 

Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. 

Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. 

Understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to develop a deep understanding of services and technologies. 

This Position will require being available for Shifts and Weekends

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