Oracle Database Administrator - ON SITE

Company and Role:

Dedicated Tech Services, Inc. (DTS) is an award-winning IT consulting firm based in Columbus, OH. We now have an opening for a Oracle Database Administrator to manage and optimize our mission-critical Oracle and PostgreSQL database environments, including Oracle RAC and AWS RDS PostgreSQL. This role will play a key part in ensuring database integrity, performance, security, and availability across on-premises and cloud platforms.

Highlights and Benefits:

• Onsite Columbus, OH
• W2 hourly pay rate up to $49hr or salaried equivalent
• Government Environment
• Direct W2 hourly or salaried applicants only (no corp-to-corp subcontractors, third parties, or agencies)
• Paid time off and holidays for salaried employees
• 401K, billable bonus, and health, life, vision, dental and short-term disability insurance options for all
• DTS is a proud Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB)!
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Job Description:

We are hiring an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to work for us as our direct, W2 salaried or hourly employee to join our team. You will:

• Administer and maintain Oracle databases, including Oracle RAC, and PostgreSQL databases hosted on AWS RDS.
• Monitor database health and performance using AWS CloudWatch and manage audit logs with AWS CloudTrail.
• Implement and support cloud infrastructure concepts including scalability, elasticity, cost optimization, and disaster recovery.
• Support the application system development life cycle methodologies
• Use CloudFormation templates to define and manage infrastructure as code for database environments.
• Design and implement robust backup and recovery strategies.
• Define and enforce database standards and best practices.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell, SQL, PL/SQL, and Python.
• Configure RDS for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery using multi-AZ deployments and backups.
• Performing database performance tuning and monitoring.
• Scheduling and monitoring data warehousing processes.
• Participating in software release management processes.
• Communicating effectively with team members and stakeholders, demonstrating excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Managing time effectively and prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines.
• Diagnosing and resolving database errors and performance issues using logs, metrics, and AWS
• Applying logical data modeling
• Authoring shell scripts to perform backup, restore, and monitoring
• Designing, installing, and converting databases.
• Ensuring database backup and recovery procedures, access security, database integrity, physical data storage design, and data storage management.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Enterprise Database Administration.
• Deep knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Oracle RAC.
• Experience with Docker, AIX, MS SQL Server, and additional AWS database services.
• Proficient in scripting languages including Shell, SQL, PL/SQL, and Python.
• Strong understanding of database performance tuning, monitoring, and recovery.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Certifications in Oracle and/or PostgreSQL administration.
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and cloud-based database services (e.g., Aurora, Redshift) is a big plus.

s and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Dedicated Tech Services, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer