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You will be a valued member of the Database Services team and work collaboratively with the Database Services Lead, application teams, and key stakeholders to ensure the availability, integrity, and performance of critical production databases.\nIn this role, you will:\nMonitor database performance and availability across enterprise environments; detect, isolate, diagnose, and resolve incidents - including coordinating planned and unplanned database startups, shutdowns, and outage communications to relevant stakeholders\nPerform schema lifecycle management including refresh, migration, recovery, and decommissioning; promote database objects across development, test, and production environments; and install patches and perform upgrades as directed\nMaintain backup processes, schedules, and replication activities (streams, materialized views, third-party tools); implement standby and Data Guard management and recovery procedures; and maintain rollback plans for database migrations\nExecute health checks and generate reports (AWR/Stats, alert logs, trace files, tablespace and data file capacity); maintain scheduled jobs, administrative scripts, and query log data for auditing purposes\nAdminister logins, passwords, and resource limits per security guidelines; configure and monitor DB maintenance plans; and provide daily ticket reports and monthly reporting on accomplishments, volumes, outstanding issues, and proactive DBA activities\nWork model\nWe believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. 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Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.\nPlease note: This role includes participation in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation for production support.\nWhat you need to have to be considered\n4+ years of hands-on DBA experience across Oracle and/or SQL Server (or equivalent RDBMS) in an enterprise environment\nStrong skills in backup and recovery, replication, performance tuning, and schema lifecycle management, including Data Guard and standby database configuration\nProven experience supporting 24x7x365 production databases with on-call rotation responsibilities\nProficiency with AWR/Stats tooling, Enterprise Manager (EM), and backup and replication tools in an on-premises database environment\nFamiliarity with change management processes, compliance and security review participation, and the ability to generate clear technical reports and documentation for both technical and non-technical stakeholders\nThese will help you stand out\nExperience with materialized views, streams, or third-party replication tooling\nPrior exposure to large-scale enterprise governance and compliance frameworks\nBackground in supporting multi-database environments across mixed OS platforms\nWe're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. 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