Senior Oracle Database Administrator

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Senior Oracle Database Administrator

@ CGI

Position Description:

CGI has an immediate need for a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment supporting one of the non-profit organizations that collects, verifies, and maintains student enrollment and degree data for educational institutions.

The Senior Oracle Database Administrator will be responsible for supporting software development teams within agile-driven environment. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise database platforms, including Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB, and SQL-based databases. This role ensures the availability, performance, security, and integrity of mission-critical data systems across cloud environments. The Sr. DBA serves as a technical leader, partnering with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to support complex, high-availability platforms and drive database best practices, automation, and continuous improvement.

This position is located in our Lafayette, LA or Knoxville, TN office or Fairfax, VA; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Support Agile development teams by designing, administering, and optimizing Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB, and SQL databases.
• Ensure database availability, performance, security, and data integrity across cloud environments.
• Oversee database installations, upgrades, patching, and configuration management.
• Implement and maintain backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies for mission‑critical systems.
• Lead performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategy, and capacity planning
• Architect and manage high‑availability database solutions including clustering, Real application clusters (RAC), Data Guard, and cloud‑native (high availability) HA options.
• Participate in Disaster recovery (DR) exercises and ensure database platforms meet business continuity requirements.
• Administer cloud‑based database services, storage architectures, networking configurations, and cloud security controls.
• Implement automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code for cloud database environments.
• Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, and security teams to support complex, high‑availability systems and application releases.
• Provide technical leadership during incidents, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term remediation planning.
• Develop automation for database provisioning, patching, maintenance, and monitoring.
• Implement observability and alerting strategies to proactively identify performance issues.
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks.
• Guide engineers on database standards, best practices, and operational improvements.
• Recent experience with Real application clusters (RAC), DataGuard, Exadata, or OCI cloud‑managed database platforms.

Salary Range: $80,600.00 - $267,800.00

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Qualifications:

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• 7+ years of enterprise database administration experience
• Strong experience with Oracle 19c and SQL-based databases
• Recent hands-on experience supporting OCI cloud and hybrid database platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Expertise in performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery
• Experience with database security, backup, replication, and compliance
• Proficiency in automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (SQL, Bash)
• Solid Linux/Unix knowledge
• Solid understanding of System Global Area (SGA) and its relationship to database sizing, tuning, performance optimization, etc.
• Hands-on expertise with oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and grid infrastructure, leveraging Oracle's database-aware storage architecture to support highly available, scalable RAC, Exadata, and cloud-hosted Oracle platforms.
• Recent experience working in Agile, cross-functional teams.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience administering AWS Redshift and Postgres databases.

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience 

Skills:

• Database Administration
• Database Design
• Linux
• Oracle

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How to Apply:

Apply online at https://www.cgi.com/en 

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