Description

Job Description

We are seeking a Database Administrator III to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Oracle Enterprise Linux administration, SRE practices, automation with Ansible, and high availability infrastructure and a proven ability to increase platform reliability, scalability, and security through automation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Lead administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of Oracle Enterprise Linux in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Oversee design, build, and lifecycle management of Linux servers, including storage, virtualization, and core infrastructure.
• Manage high availability, clustering, and load-balanced environments to minimize downtime.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability initiatives.
• Define and implement SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead infrastructure automation for provisioning, configuration, and patching using Ansible.
• Build and maintain self-healing systems to reduce manual intervention.
• Develop automation for installation, configuration, and deployment pipelines.
• Install, configure, and maintain OEL operating systems and related software stacks.
• Manage LVM, including volume groups and filesystem expansion.
• Administer distributed file systems, NFS, and automount configurations.
• Maintain network services such as DNS, NTP, LDAP/Kerberos, SMTP, and OpenSSH.
• Troubleshoot TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and RPC protocols.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability for proactive detection.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems with corrective actions.
• Oversee break/fix operations to ensure timely resolution and low business impact.
• Ensure systems are hardened and compliant with enterprise security standards.
• Manage patching, vulnerability remediation, and OS upgrades in coordination with security teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE and infrastructure teams and collaborate with application and platform teams.
• Define and enforce operational standards, runbooks, and best practices.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and ensure adherence to change and incident governance.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Linux system administration in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise with Oracle Enterprise Linux and FPP.
• Proven experience with high availability, virtualization, and storage management.
• Hands-on experience with automation and configuration management, Ansible preferred.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language, Bash or Python preferred.
• Strong infrastructure troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident management skills.
• Solid understanding of compute, storage, and networking in enterprise settings.
• Effective analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs and running postmortems in SRE contexts.
• Background with distributed filesystems, NFS performance tuning, and LVM best practices

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate