Oracle Database Engineer
RemoteArgentina or Colombia
Job Summary
Manage, optimize, and maintain enterprise Oracle database environments with a focus on high availability, reliability, and scalability. Execute performance tuning, backup and recovery strategies, and automation using RMAN, Data Pump, and shell scripting. Operate fleets of Oracle 19c Enterprise Edition databases, including multitenant architecture, cross-platform migrations, and character set conversions to AL32UTF8. Analyze SQL and PL/SQL execution plans to ensure instance-level efficiency. This role requires 7+ years of experience with Oracle 19c and production support. The position offers remote work with 13 floating holidays and 15 vacation days per year.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years as an Oracle database administrator or database engineer supporting production systems
- 3+ years on Oracle 19c Enterprise Edition specifically, including multitenant
- Demonstrated ownership of at least one large database migration, ideally cross-platform
- Experience operating a fleet of databases rather than a single flagship instance
- Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 19c in production as a primary responsibility
- Multitenant architecture: CDB and PDB creation, cloning, plug and unplug operations, and resource management
- RMAN: backup strategy, restore and recovery, point in time recovery, and database duplication
- Data Pump export and import at scale, including cross-platform and cross-version moves
- Oracle Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration: storage layout, kernel parameters, systemd, and ASM or filesystem configuration
- Character set migration, including conversion to AL32UTF8
- SQL and PL/SQL, execution plan analysis, and instance-level performance tuning
- Shell scripting for database automation
- Professional working English
Desired Qualifications
- Active Data Guard configuration and failover testing
- Ansible roles for Oracle installation and configuration
- Oracle running on Azure infrastructure as a service
- Migration of Oracle workloads from Windows to Linux
- Oracle Enterprise Manager or EM Express for fleet-level monitoring
- Standard Edition 2 to Enterprise Edition conversion
- Kubernetes-hosted applications connecting to an external database
- Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Database 19c
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