Senior Oracle Exadata Migration Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Oracle Exadata Database Administrator

Pay Range: $63.70hr - $68.70hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• Deep experience with Oracle Exadata in on-premises or cloud environments, including OCI or
• Strong Oracle Database administration experience with versions 11g, 12c, 19c, and above.
• Expertise in RAC, ASM, Data Guard, patching, backup and recovery, and performance tuning.
• Experience executing and supporting Oracle database migrations from VM-based or traditional environments to Exadata, including cutover planning and validation.
• Strong understanding of Oracle client connectivity, including JDBC, ODP.NET, OCI clients, TNS, DNS-based redirection, and connection string behavior.
• Ability to support application teams during migrations, including connectivity validation, performance verification, and post-migration troubleshooting.
• Experience working with enterprise applications such as Pega, portals, and middleware platforms that depend on Oracle databases.
• Experience supporting production migrations, including change management, outage coordination, and escalation handling.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring, logging, performance baselining, and post-migration validation checks.
• Experience:
• Minimum 5 years of experience performing full data management duties, including migration and continuous integration and delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Support large-scale Oracle database migrations from traditional or VM-based environments to Oracle Exadata platforms.
• Participate in pre-migration planning, migration execution, cutover coordination, and post-migration validation.
• Provide operational support for Oracle Exadata environments, including performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Manage Oracle Database administration tasks, including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, patching, backup, recovery, and performance tuning.
• Validate and troubleshoot Oracle client and application connectivity during and after migration events.
• Work closely with application teams to ensure connectivity, performance, and functional validation post-migration.
• Partner with DBA, infrastructure, and application teams throughout pre-migration preparation, migration windows, and post-cutover stabilization.
• Support production migration activities, including change management processes, outage planning, and escalation handling.
• Perform performance baselining, monitoring, logging review, and post-migration system validation in enterprise environments.

Skills:

• Expert knowledge of Oracle databases and related enterprise database technologies.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills for working with analysts, developers, testers, and project managers.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Advanced knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Knowledge of DB2, MS SQL Server, and similar database platforms is preferred.

Qualification and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required experience.