Senior Database Administrator, IT Enterprise - jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Database Administrator, IT Enterprise based in India.

This role offers the opportunity to manage and optimize enterprise database environments supporting critical business operations. You will be responsible for ensuring database availability, security, performance, and reliability across production and non-production systems. The position focuses on Oracle technologies, enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, and advanced database administration practices. You will collaborate with technical teams, developers, and business stakeholders to deliver stable and scalable database solutions. The role provides exposure to complex enterprise architectures, disaster recovery strategies, and performance optimization initiatives. You will play a key role in maintaining highly available systems while contributing to continuous technology improvements.

Accountabilities:

The Senior Database Administrator will oversee the design, maintenance, security, and performance of enterprise database platforms. The role requires hands-on expertise in Oracle database administration, proactive problem-solving, and collaboration with cross-functional technology teams.

• Design, install, maintain, and manage production and non-production database environments.
• Provide operational support for critical database systems, including on-call and 24/7 support activities when required.
• Ensure database availability, performance, reliability, and security across enterprise platforms.
• Perform database maintenance, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery activities.
• Support Oracle database environments, including Oracle Database 19c and enterprise application databases.
• Monitor database health, identify performance issues, and implement optimization strategies.
• Collaborate with application developers on SQL tuning, stored procedures, and database-related improvements.
• Develop and maintain technical and security standards in collaboration with database and infrastructure teams.
• Support cloud-based database environments deployed through PaaS or IaaS models.
• Manage database refreshes, high availability configurations, replication, and recovery solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot application-related database issues across complex enterprise environments.
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations to improve database architecture and operational processes.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing enterprise database environments, strong Oracle expertise, and the ability to support complex, high-availability systems.