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serves as a knowledgeable resource for compliance assessments related to the database service area.\nDevelops automation using Ansible, Python, shell scripting, PowerShell, PL/SQL, and Transact-SQL to reduce recurring manual tasks; contributes to infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Git within the team's established standards where applicable.\nAdditional Job Duties\nPerforms assigned database tasks during monthly data center site switchover exercises, coordinating failover execution, replication validation, and post-switchover verification.\nMaintains and improves knowledge articles, runbooks, operational standards, and support documentation used by the team and adjacent responders.\nManages incidents, service requests, and change records within ServiceNow, and coordinates vendor support tickets escalated through Oracle, Microsoft, and PostgreSQL support channels, tracking resolution through completion.\nContributes to capacity planning and lifecycle management activities by analyzing database growth trends, storage utilization, and platform lifecycle timelines.\nParticipates in incident post-mortem reviews and contributes to root cause analysis and corrective action planning for significant database events.\nProvides cross-training to team members and operational partners to build depth and reduce single points of knowledge within the department.\nRequirements\nExperience\nFive to eight years of progressively responsible experience in database administration in multi-platform environments involving Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.\nHands-on Oracle GoldenGate replication administration and proactive monitoring and tuning through Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM).\nAdvanced troubleshooting, high-availability and disaster-recovery management, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and patching coordination in a production environment supporting business-critical applications.\nProficiency with scripting and automation, including Python and shell scripting, is required.\nExperience in a regulated environment subject to NERC CIP or SOC is strongly preferred\nConfiguration-management and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible and Terraform, along with familiarity with the ServiceNow IT service management platform, is a plus.\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field; 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