Database Administrator

Key responsibilities:

Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.

Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.

Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.

Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.

Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.

Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.

Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.

Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.

Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.

Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.

Installing upgrades and patches to various apps.

Implement database security controls and best practices.

Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.

Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.

Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.

Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:

Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science.

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).

OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.

ITIL intermediate.

Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.

Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms).

Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.

Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage.

5+ years of experience.