Seasoned Senior DBA with deep expertise in Oracle 19c and broad experience across modern database platforms and cloud environments. The person designs, operates, and optimizes highly available, secure, and cost-efficient database services that support mission critical applications, while driving automation, repeatable lifecycle processes, and teamwork in Agile organizations.

Core Oracle capabilities

• Senior Oracle (19c) Expertise: deep understanding of Oracle architecture, instance and SQL tuning, optimizer behavior, and schema design best practices.
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery: design and operate HA/DR patterns to meet RTO/RPO objectives.
• Instance & SQL Tuning: performance diagnostics, optimizer statistics management, wait analysis, and tuning at instance and statement levels to improve throughput and latency.
• Networking, Security & Compliance: implement secure network configurations, TLS, encryption, user/privilege management, and controls to meet regulatory and audit requirements.
• Backup & Restore: design robust backup and recovery strategies using validated restore procedures; test recovery workflows regularly.
• Database Upgrades & Migrations: plan and execute major version upgrades, patching, platform migrations and schema refactors with minimal downtime.
• Capacity Planning & Cost Optimization: forecast growth, right size resources, and apply cost controls for on-premises and cloud database costs.
• Monitoring & Observability: implement and operate monitoring using Oracle Enterprise Manager and custom dashboards; define SLAs, alerts, and runbooks.

DevOps & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code & Lifecycle Automation: define and manage database infrastructure and configuration using IaC principles, integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Git & CI/CD: author and maintain deployment pipelines for safe, auditable changes.
• Automation & Scripting: proficient in Python for automation and operational tooling; leverage AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity and code quality.
• Operational Excellence: lifecycle management for database environments (provisioning, patching, backup validation, decommissioning) with an emphasis on repeatability and testability.

Cloud & Cross Platform Experience

• Cloud Architecture: design database solutions for hybrid on-premises/cloud environments, select appropriate patterns for latency, sovereignty, and cost.
• AWS Services: practical experience integrating databases with EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, DMS and DataSync for migrations, backups, and data movement.
• Multi-platform knowledge: working knowledge of PostgreSQL (v14 & v17) and MongoDB (v5.0 & v8.0) at a foundational/operational level — apply comparable concepts for HA, tuning, backup/restore, and security across platforms.

Personal & Team Skills

• Agile / Scrum: experienced working in cross functional Agile teams, participating in stand-ups, sprint planning, demos and retrospectives; focus on incremental delivery and continuous improvement.
• Mentorship: coach and mentor junior DBAs and engineers on performance troubleshooting, best practices, and operational hygiene.
• Communication: clear communicator with proven ability to translate technical tradeoffs to stakeholders, document runbooks, and lead postmortems and capacity reviews.

Desired / Advantageous Skills

• Administration & Management: experience with Oracle ORDS/Apex, SQL Server, and Apache Airflow for orchestration and data workflows.
• Working knowledge & integration: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible for provisioning and configuration management; Docker/Kubernetes/Helm for containerized environments.
• Collaboration tools: Jira for issue tracking and delivery coordination.