Description

Key Responsibilities

· Extensive experience in end-to-end administration of Oracle Exadata systems (X5–X9), ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and lifecycle management for mission-critical enterprise workloads.

· Proven expertise in planning, reviewing, and executing full-stack Exadata patching across all components, including YUM, Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Database, Storage Cells, and InfiniBand switches.

· Strong hands-on experience with Exadata ExaCheck installation, upgrades, and analysis, proactively identifying system health issues and implementing corrective actions.

· Deep expertise in security vulnerability assessment and remediation across Exadata environments, covering compute nodes, Grid Infrastructure, databases, storage cells, and InfiniBand switches.

· Expert-level skills in Exadata Machine Administration and Oracle Database Administration, including upgrades, migrations, configuration management, and lifecycle operations.

· Extensive hands-on experience with Exadata management and diagnostic tools such as DCLI, CellCLI, ILOM, and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.

· Proven expertise in planning, evaluating, and applying Oracle 11g, 12c, and 19c Exadata patches across database servers, storage servers, and InfiniBand switches.

· Strong experience with Oracle Multitenant architecture, including PDB refreshes, resolving PDB violations, cross-container PDB migrations in RAC environments, and CDB/PDB backup, restore, and recovery.

· Advanced expertise in Oracle backup and recovery solutions, leveraging RMAN, Flashback technologies, FRA management, and advanced recovery strategies.

· Expert in Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) scenarios, including database PITR, TSPITR, and table-level recovery, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.

· Extensive experience in Oracle Data Guard and Data Guard Broker, performing production switchovers, failovers, and supporting disaster recovery planning to meet audit and compliance requirements.

· Strong skills in diagnosing and resolving invalid Oracle database components, maintaining system stability and compliance.

· Advanced expertise in database performance tuning and SQL optimization, resolving critical performance issues in high-availability RAC and Exadata production environments.

· Proven experience in table partitioning strategies, including migrating non-partitioned tables to partitioned designs and defining effective maintenance, pruning, and archiving strategies.

· Hands-on experience in Oracle GoldenGate configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting for real-time data replication.

· Extensive experience in Exadata hardware fault management, including disk, flash card, battery, port, and InfiniBand switch replacements, ensuring minimal downtime and service continuity.

· Strong experience in installing and configuring Oracle 12c/19c RAC and CDB/non-CDB databases, including database cloning and environment standardization.

· Proven ability to upgrade and patch OEM agents and targets, ensuring consistent enterprise-wide monitoring and alerting.

Required Skills and Qualifications

· 8–14+ years of Oracle Database Administration experience, with 5+ years on Oracle Exadata platforms.

· 10+ years of strong experience in Oracle RAC Database Administration, including patching, Multitenant (CDB/PDB), Data Guard, and backup/recovery in high-availability environments.

· Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production issues, perform performance tuning, and manage security, monitoring, disaster recovery, and Exadata patching, with exposure to Oracle GoldenGate and large-scale Multitenant environments.

· Strong experience in Oracle Exadata administration (X5–X9) supporting mission-critical, high-availability environments.

· Hands-on expertise in full-stack Exadata patching and upgrades, including compute nodes, storage cells, Grid Infrastructure, databases, and InfiniBand switches.

· In-depth knowledge of Oracle RAC, Multitenant (CDB/PDB), Data Guard, RMAN, Flashback, and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR).

· Proven skills in database performance tuning and SQL optimization in large-scale Exadata and RAC environments.

· Experience with Exadata tools such as DCLI, CellCLI, ILOM, OEM, and ExaCheck for monitoring, troubleshooting, and health assessments.

· Strong understanding of security vulnerability assessment and remediation across database, OS, Grid, and Exadata infrastructure layers.

· Working knowledge of Oracle GoldenGate for real-time data replication and troubleshooting.

Good-to-Have Skills

· Experience with IBM CDC replication, Exadata upgrades/migrations, and large-scale database consolidation initiatives.

· Exposure to automation/scripting, OEM upgrades, and audit-driven DR and compliance activities

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree