Manager, Database Administration

Description

The role will focus on improving database availability, reducing customer impact, strengthening recovery capabilities, enhancing operational efficiency, and eliminating repetitive manual tasks through automation. The manager will also lead key database modernization and transformation initiatives, including ExaCC migrations, OCI transformation, and Gen2 transformation. This work will help ensure smooth migrations, improved scalability, and enhanced reliability across database environments.

A key responsibility will be reviewing, standardizing, and continuously improving existing standard operating procedures (SOPs), operational workflows, and automation practices to drive consistency, reduce operational overhead, and improve service delivery. The manager will promote proactive problem management, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the database infrastructure.

The manager will lead a geographically distributed team and collaborate closely with database operations, application development, architecture, security, and cloud engineering teams. The manager will help execute the database reliability and modernization roadmap, drive technology transformation, and maintain a stable, scalable, and resilient database platform.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

People leadership: Recruit, coach, and develop database engineers. Establish clear responsibilities, build technical expertise, and support career growth.

Reliability strategy: Own the team’s operational stability improvement roadmap. Use incident history, customer impact, and technical risk to prioritize work, assign owners, and track improvements through completion.

SRE practices: Define and measure service reliability objectives, detection and recovery performance, recurring incidents, and operational toil. Translate identified gaps into engineering actions.

Event management: Oversee database monitoring, initial triage, runbook execution, and escalation. Maintain effective coverage and shift handoffs while coordinating with the established incident management function.

Incident prevention: Ensure thorough root cause analysis and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions. Partner with product and infrastructure teams to address systemic issues instead of relying on repeated mitigation.

Database modernization: Lead the team’s delivery of ExaCC migrations and broader OCI initiatives. Prioritize high-risk environments and ensure appropriate sizing, testing, migration readiness, and operational handover.

Disaster recovery: Drive standby deployments in OCI and ExaCS, backup and restore validation, and regular failover exercises. Measure recovery capabilities against agreed-upon recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) targets.

SQL performance: Advance Gen1 and Gen2 performance programs through execution plan analysis, query tuning, SQL Plan Management, and workload optimization. Address CPU-intensive SQL, contention, excessive cursor usage, and recurring regressions.

GoldenGate reliability: Strengthen replication monitoring, troubleshooting, recovery, and migration support. Reduce recurring replication failures and delays.

Maintenance reliability: Expand automation for database, Grid Infrastructure, and operating system patching. Establish pre-checks, post-change validation, controlled rollouts, and tested rollback procedures.

Capacity and configuration: Improve N+1 readiness, CPU and storage forecasting, and database growth management. Establish configuration baselines and detect and remediate unexpected configuration drift.

Automation and observability: Deliver reusable tools, actionable dashboards, and reliable diagnostic workflows. Reduce alert noise and manual intervention, including through appropriately controlled AI-assisted diagnostics.

Security: Partner with Security and Architecture teams on OCI Data Safe, OCI Vault, auditing, credential management, and standardized database controls.

Project delivery: Manage priorities, dependencies, milestones, and stakeholder communication. Apply source control, code review, testing, CI/CD, and change management practices to engineering deliverables.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing database engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or database operations teams, including geographically distributed teams.
• Proven people management experience, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, career development, and building high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to define team goals, establish priorities, manage resources, and drive accountability for operational and engineering deliverables.
• Experience leading large-scale database modernization and transformation initiatives, including ExaCC migrations, OCI transformation, Gen2 transformation, or similar cloud migration projects.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles and experience delivering measurable improvements in reliability, operational efficiency, and service availability.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle Database technologies, including SQL and PL/SQL, performance diagnostics, RAC, Data Guard, backup, and recovery.
• Experience with Oracle GoldenGate replication and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting business-critical database services on Linux and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience driving automation initiatives using Python, shell scripting, SQL, or PL/SQL, supported by sound software development practices.
• Proven ability to lead critical incident management, technical escalations, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives that minimize customer impact.
• Experience managing multiple engineering projects, defining milestones, tracking deliverables, identifying risks, and ensuring timely execution.
• Ability to establish and improve operational processes, standard operating procedures, and engineering best practices to enhance consistency, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including application development, cloud engineering, infrastructure, security, and architecture teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams and senior leadership.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Oracle Database technologies, including SQL, PL/SQL, RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and high-availability architectures.
• Knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud at Customer (ExaCC), Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS), and enterprise healthcare platforms.
• Experience managing business-critical database environments on Linux, including SQL Plan Management, fleet-wide patching, disaster recovery, and operational automation.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation and DevOps tools, including Terraform, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting with Python, shell, SQL, or PL/SQL.
• Knowledge of database security and compliance practices, including OCI Data Safe, OCI Vault, and related security best practices.
• Knowledge of observability solutions, operational dashboards, proactive monitoring, and AI-assisted diagnostic tools that improve database reliability and operational efficiency

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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