Senior Oracle Database Administrator - Ferguson

Job Posting:

Since 1953, Ferguson has been a source of quality supplies for a variety of industries. Together We Build Better infrastructure, better homes and better businesses. We exist to make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful, and sustainable. We proactively solve problems, adapt and grow to continuously serve our customers, communities and each other. Ferguson , a Fortune 500 company, is proud to provide best-in-class products, service and capabilities across the following industries: Commercial/Mechanical, Facilities Supply, Fire and Fabrication, HVAC, Industrial, Residential Trade, Residential Building and Remodel, Waterworks and Residential Digital Commerce. Ferguson has approximately 36,000 associates across 1,700 locations. Ferguson is a community of proud associates who operate with the shared purpose of building something meaningful. You will build a career that you are proud of, at a company you can believe in.

We’re seeking a Senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) with strong SQL Server experience to lead and support our most critical data systems. In this role, you’ll design, implement, and continuously optimize high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions that ensure minimal downtime and zero data loss. As a trusted technical lead and primary escalation point, you’ll partner across engineering and operations to solve complex challenges, drive performance improvements, and help shape the reliability and scalability of our database platforms.

Location: This role is approved to be fully remote and can be based anywhere in the United States.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide support for Oracle databases, including configuration, tuning and troubleshooting.
• Proactively monitor system health, tune SQL queries, optimize indexes, and manage database configurations to prevent performance degradation.
• Lead performance tuning and troubleshooting efforts, identifying bottlenecks and implementing effective solutions.
• Design, implement, and support high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) strategies, including Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Oracle Data Guard, SQL Server Always on Availability Groups and Failover clustering.
• Deploy and upgrade multiple versions of Oracle (e.g., 12c, 19c) and Microsoft SQL Server on physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Implement robust security measures, manage user permissions, access controls, apply patches, and ensure compliance with data governance policies.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure and operations to support data-driven initiatives.
• Establish and test comprehensive backup strategies to guarantee rapid recovery from system failures or data corruption
• Maintain documentation for Oracle data models, dictionaries, and configurations.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship of fellow DBAs and con