Senior Manager Oracle Applications Database

Request Technology - Billerica, MA

Full-time - Senior

Billerica, MA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Senior Manager Oracle Applications DBA role is a hands-on position focused on maintaining production uptime service levels for Oracle databases and applications. The role involves ensuring optimal performance, security, and availability of multi-database environments, managing Oracle Cloud OCI platform integrations, and performing routine DBA tasks. The position requires collaboration with various IT teams and is critical for planning and responding to service outages, as well as executing database maintenance and upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Ensure production uptime service levels are maintained according to requirements including backup, recovery, refresh, performance tuning, and security.
• Manage Oracle Cloud OCI platform and maintain ongoing integrations and configurations.
• Perform routine DBA tasks such as database maintenance, backups, recovery, and upgrades.
• Execute periodic health checks for databases and recommend changes for optimal performance.
• Interact and collaborate with multiple infrastructure, security, and IT teams for environment setup and maintenance.
• Plan and respond to service outages, including backup and restore processes.
• Monitor system performance and diagnose software and hardware failures to resolution.
• Provide patch management and distribution capabilities to prevent new threats.
• Create and test data backups, ensuring data integrity and implementing access controls.
• Perform database configuration, monitoring, and tuning, including problem defect analysis and resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
• 10+ years of experience with Oracle EBS (11i/R12).
• Minimum of five (5) years in ERP Cloud platform.
• 20+ years of experience as an Oracle ERP APPS DBA.
• Experience executing a minimum of two upgrade cycles in the past.
• Knowledge of EBS Application architecture, Concurrent managers, and Workflow.
• Excellent knowledge in cloning, patching, backup recovery of ERP applications.
• Hands-on experience with RMAN, Backup Management, and different Recovery techniques.
• Ability to design and implement disaster recovery plans.
• Knowledge of system administration functionality within Oracle Cloud ERP.
• Unix Shell Scripting skills on Oracle ODA's and OVM's.

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies and time zones.
• Experience managing and supervising DBA staff.

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility
• Permanent full-time position