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Role Summary\nWe are seeking an experienced Lead DBRE with deep hands-on expertise in Oracle Database and self-managed Oracle RAC environments. The role owns technical execution for a major Oracle domain and improves reliability, performance, scalability, lifecycle management, automation, and operational discipline.\nBeyond traditional DBA operations, the Lead DBRE partners with application and infrastructure teams to influence schema, SQL, connection management, resiliency, observability, and safe deployment practices. The role remains hands-on while providing technical leadership, mentoring, and incident escalation.\n2. Level Scope and Leadership Expectations\nLead DBRE is a senior technical leadership role focused on owning execution for a major database domain. The expectation is to solve difficult production problems, lead initiatives end to end, guide engineers, create durable operating standards, and drive cross-functional closure without default people-management responsibility.\nDimension\nExpectation at This Level\nScope of Ownership\nOwns reliability and execution for a significant Oracle platform domain, including incidents, lifecycle activities, routine maintenance, capacity risks, HA/DR readiness, and service-impacting improvements.\nTechnical Depth\nDiagnoses complex RAC, Clusterware, ASM, Data Guard, SQL performance, storage, interconnect, OS, backup, and recovery problems.\nTechnical Leadership\nActs as a primary escalation point, mentors engineers, reviews designs, raises standards, and influences application and infrastructure decisions.\nExecution\nLeads complex initiatives end to end, aligns stakeholders, manages dependencies, and drives permanent corrective actions to closure.\nCommunication\nExplains technical tradeoffs, communicates clearly during incidents, and keeps risks, ownership, dependencies, and timelines visible.\nAutomation and Standards\nBuilds repeatable automation, CI/CD practices, runbooks, monitoring, and golden paths that reduce toil and failure risk.\n3. Key Responsibilities\nA. Oracle RAC Platform Ownership\nAdminister and improve Oracle RAC, Grid Infrastructure, Clusterware, ASM, services, SCAN/listeners, and interconnect configurations.\nPlan and execute patching, upgrades, migrations, capacity changes, and lifecycle activities with controlled change and rollback practices.\nDesign, operate, and validate Data Guard, RMAN, backup/recovery, failover, switchover, and disaster-recovery procedures.\nB. Performance and Incident Leadership\nLead performance analysis using AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL Monitor, execution plans, SQL Trace, TKPROF, and OS/storage diagnostics.\nDiagnose Cache Fusion, GC waits, workload placement, connection storms, cluster instability, storage latency, and interconnect issues.\nServe as the technical escalation point for critical incidents, lead stabilization and RCA, and drive permanent corrective actions.\nC. Engineering Influence and Shift-Left Reliability\nPartner with application teams on SQL, indexing, partitioning, schema design, bind usage, connection pooling, transaction boundaries, and resilient failover behavior.\nEstablish database design reviews, deployment guardrails, developer guidance, and production-readiness standards.\nD. Automation and Observability\nAutomate provisioning, validation, patching, maintenance, backup checks, DR exercises, health checks, and recurring remediation using Python, Shell, Ansible, Terraform, or similar technologies.\nImprove Oracle observability using OEM, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, or comparable tools; define actionable service indicators and objectives.\n4. Required Qualifications and Experience\n8+ years of database or reliability engineering experience, including significant Lead or Senior responsibility for self-managed production Oracle RAC.\nDeep hands-on knowledge of Oracle RAC, Grid Infrastructure/Clusterware, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN, RAC Services, SCAN/listeners, Cache Fusion, and interconnect behavior.\nStrong Oracle performance tuning and diagnostics experience using AWR, ASH, execution plans, SQL Trace, and Linux diagnostics.\nExperience with patching, upgrades, migrations, backup/recovery, DR exercises, and controlled production change.\nStrong Linux/Unix systems troubleshooting skills.\nHands-on automation using Python, Shell, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable tooling.\nStrong technical leadership, mentoring, incident communication, and cross-functional execution skills.\n5. Preferred Qualifications\nOracle Exadata, OCI, Cloud@Customer, AWS, or hybrid Oracle deployment experience.\nApplication Continuity, FAN, TAF, FSFO, Far Sync, GoldenGate, GDS, TDE, ZDLRA, or advanced Oracle HA capabilities.\nDatabase schema CI/CD using Liquibase, Flyway, Bytebase, or comparable tooling.\nOracle certifications or relevant SRE/cloud architecture credentials.\n6. Expected Outcomes in the First 6-12 Months\nEstablish measurable reliability, MTTR, patching, backup/recovery, and DR-readiness baselines and deliver material improvement.\nAutomate high-frequency and high-risk operational workflows, prioritizing safety, maintainability, and auditability.\nEstablish a practical database architecture and production-readiness review process with measurable adoption by application teams.\nDeliver documented capacity, lifecycle, resiliency, and corrective-action plans for critical RAC environments.\n7. What This Role Does Not Include\nThis is not a people-management role unless separately assigned; leadership is expected through technical direction, mentoring, and execution ownership.\nThis is not a project-management-only role; the Lead DBRE must remain deeply hands-on.\nThis is not a traditional DBA ticket queue; durable fixes, automation, standards, capacity planning, and reliability improvements are expected.\nThis role does not own application code or business logic, although it influences database-impacting application design.\nThe role does not assume unlimited or last-minute DBRE capacity; work must be planned, prioritized, communicated, and committed through the appropriate process.\n8. 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