Database Operations and Site Reliability Engineering Manager

$80,500 - $199,500/Yr

Oracle - Olympia, WA

Part-time - Mid Level

Olympia, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

This is a hands-on position with the successful applicant ready and able to assist with time-sensitive project issues and customer escalations. The role will look for efficiencies to improve quality and opportunities to advance the team capability through automation and education. This role requires excellent organizational skills and an ability to manage many concurrent projects. The applicant will spend most of their time managing the day-to-day operations of the team, responding to the needs of the customer base on an as-needed basis. The tasks may concern routine database maintenance, rapid response to unexpected outages or availability issues, or identifying and managing projects to continuously improve the quality of service provided to our users.

Responsibilities

• Manages a team maintaining and/or implementing software project(s) and/or internal systems.
• Defines, documents and manages scope, expectations, implementation approach, deliverables and acceptance testing criteria.

Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive leadership of Oracle Database administration teams
• 8+ years of experience as Oracle DBA
• Bachelor's degree/master's degree in Information Technology/Computer Science/Computer Software/Computer System Engineering
• Managing production databases running on LINUX flavors
• Experience with production operations and best practices for change management and escalation procedures
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of Oracle database systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
• Ability to work calmly under pressure with customers
• Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)
• Technical skills in Oracle Database, Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM & RAC, Oracle Goldengate, Dataguard and Maximum Availability Architecture best practices, Oracle Cloud and Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS), Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB), Oracle Data Management (Partitioning, Compression).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Flexible Vacation provided to all eligible employees
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance