Senior Oracle Cloud DBA/Architect

Senior Oracle Cloud DBA/Architect

Location: Chelmsford, MA — Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week

Duration: Full-Time/Direct Hire role

Rate: 150 - 170k + 10% bonus

Sponsorship: H-1B sponsorship available

We’re seeking a Senior Oracle Cloud DBA/Architect for a hybrid opportunity in Chelmsford, MA, supporting Oracle ERP applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This position focuses on database availability, performance, security, backup, and recovery.

Take ownership of complex Oracle environments and help improve their reliability, scalability, and resilience. You’ll collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams on cloud operations, upgrades, disaster recovery, and performance improvements.

Duration: Full-Time/Direct Hire role

Required Skills & Experience

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

· 10+ years of experience as an Oracle ERP Applications DBA.

· Minimum of 5 years of Oracle Cloud engineering experience managing OCI platforms.

· Experience completing at least two upgrade cycles, including improving processes to reduce cutover downtime.

· Strong understanding of OCI architecture, concurrent managers, workflows, and application infrastructure.

· Hands-on experience with Oracle ERP application cloning, patching, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.

· Knowledge of ODI, FAW/ADW, performance tuning, and SQL profiling.

· Experience with database configuration, monitoring, capacity planning, storage management, and access controls.

· Knowledge of Oracle Cloud ERP system administration.

· Unix shell scripting skills and experience with Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) and Oracle VM (OVM).

· Experience supporting custom code, code migrations, workflows, and concurrent requests.

· Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across application teams, geographies, and time zones.

· Ability to work onsite in Chelmsford, MA, three days per week.

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

· Oracle ERP applications and databases.

· Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including integrations and configurations.

· ODI, FAW/ADW, Unix shell scripting, ODA, and OVM.

· Technology allocation percentages were not provided.

Daily Responsibilities

· Maintain production uptime through database monitoring, maintenance, performance tuning, backup, and recovery.

· Manage OCI platform configurations and integrations to support healthy cloud operations.

· Support physical and application database requirements, including storage, networking, security, queries, users, and embedded SQL.

· Size database resources and manage capacity across large database and application environments.

· Perform database health checks, diagnose failures, and recommend production improvements.

· Plan and execute upgrades, quarterly releases, patches, and cloning across SaaS and OCI environments.

· Create and test backups, verify data integrity, and implement disaster recovery plans.

· Manage database access, roles, authorizations, audits, and technical security controls.

· Monitor memory, I/O distribution, database parameters, tablespaces, and storage utilization.

· Coordinate with infrastructure, security, and development teams on environment setup, migrations, integrations, and issue resolution.

· Respond to service outages and provide day-to-day operational status updates.