Senior Principal Oracle Database Administrator

Position Summary:

While you'll have access to other DBA staff, you'll be expected to be a self-starter and multitask while communicating effectively with the customer. The ideal candidate will have previous experience supporting medium-to-large-scale Oracle databases.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting the RHEL 8.x OS supporting Oracle Database software in physical and virtualized environments.
• Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting pluggable and containerized Oracle 19c Databases in physical and virtualized environments.
• Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Oracle RAC 19c.
• Performing RHEL 8.x and Oracle 19c upgrades/patching.
• Periodically validating Oracle 19c backup/recovery operations leveraging RMAN.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Oracle database performance (with AWR reports, database views, etc.).
• Providing on-demand support for database-related issues, and if necessary, working with Oracle support to address any unsolvable issues.
• Working with the product support and development teams to address issues or bugs discovered in products running at a customer location.
• Working with onsite government, contractor, or subcontractor staff to resolve issues with onsite products as a first line of support.
• Reviewing, applying, and remediating security vulnerabilities or security controls based on STIG guidance or scanning reports.
• Installing firmware updates on physical components such as HPE servers and HP SANs.
• Communicating daily with customers and management, providing detailed activity summaries and in-depth trip reports where applicable.
• Other duties as assigned.

What Environment You'll Be Supporting:

• Database Configuration: Primary and Secondary Oracle 19c database RAC servers on physical hardware.
• Database Size: Up to 1.5 PB, with growth at a rate of 10TB per month.

Things You Must Have to Apply:

• An active (currently in use) TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Cyber Security, or equivalent education and work experience.
• At least one DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certification at IAT Level II (2) or higher.
• (These are required only for DoD professional services roles).
• The ability to obtain the appropriate work authorizations required under U.S. ITAR or EAR regulations from the applicable U.S. government agency.

14+ years' experience performing the following tasks:

• Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting the RHEL 8.x OS supporting Oracle Database software in physical and virtualized environments.
• Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting pluggable and containerized Oracle 19c Databases in physical and virtualized environments.
• Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Oracle RAC.
• Performing RHEL 8.x and Oracle 19c upgrades/patching.
• Periodically validating Oracle 19c backup/recovery operations leveraging RMAN.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Oracle database performance.
• Providing on-demand support for database-related issues and, if needed, working with Oracle support to address any unsolvable issues.
• Working with the product support and development teams to address issues or bugs discovered in products running at a customer location.
• Working with onsite government, contractor, or subcontractor staff to resolve issues with onsite products as a first line of support.
• Reviewing, applying, and remediating security vulnerabilities or security controls based on STIG guidance or scanning reports.
• Installing firmware updates on physical components such as HPE servers, HP SANs, NFS, and ZFS appliances.
• Communicating daily with customers and Everfox management, providing detailed activity summaries and in-depth trip reports where applicable.

Deep understanding of the following IT areas:

• Oracle RDBMS, partitioning, text indexing, grid, ASM, RMAN, SQL, PL/SQL, RAC, and scripting in support of automation and nightly processing jobs.
• Routing, switching, firewall rules, and TCP/UDP/SSH/FTP/SCP/HTTPS protocols.
• Creating, renewing, installing, and troubleshooting secure certificates for web servers/sites, appliances, or networking hardware.
• Server hardware installation, maintenance, and patching.

Things That Would Be Nice to Have:

• Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GovCloud, or Google Cloud.
• Experience working with N-Tier architecture.
• Experience with Java application servers.
• Oracle Certifications, such as OCA, OCP, and OCM.
• Certifications from Cisco, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, Symantec, or VMware.