Job Title: Oracle Database Administrator

Department: Managed services

Position Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

Working Hours: Rotational

Company Overview:

ALIANDO, is an award-winning Azure Expert Managed Service solutions company focused on selling and deploying Microsoft technologies for U.S. and international companies. For over 20 years, Microsoft and its partners have recommended ALIANDO, for licensing, consulting, and managed services to corporations large and small. The company offers competitive pay and comprehensive employee benefits, including health insurance, fitness allowances, work-from-home allowances, paid maternity and parental leave, and generous PTO.

At ALIANDO, we aim to unleash the potential of people and technology. Our company was built around the idea that there is no success without team success. We foster a culture of inclusion and fairness where diverse interests, experiences, and backgrounds are celebrated. We strive to empower and unleash the potential of everyone to ensure that every employee has a path to success. We're in it together to make life better for each other, our customers, our partners, and our communities.

Key Responsibilities

Database Administration and Operations

- Administer, monitor and maintain Oracle databases across production, staging and development environments within client estates.
- Perform installations, patching, upgrades and configuration changes, including quarterly Release Update cycles, within approved change windows.
- Manage users, roles, profiles, privileges and auditing, and enforce access standards that satisfy client and regulatory requirements.
- Administer tablespaces, storage, ASM disk groups and capacity growth, raising forecasts before capacity becomes an incident.
- Support Oracle RAC, Data Guard and standby environments, including planned switchover and failover testing.

Incident,



Request and Escalation Management
- Own incidents, service requests and problem records end to end within agreed SLA targets, keeping ticket records accurate and current.
- Triage and resolve escalations raised by the service desk, and engage senior specialists or Oracle Support with a complete, well-evidenced handover when required.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and provide out-of-hours support for severity 1 and severity 2 incidents.
- Conduct root cause analysis on recurring incidents and drive permanent corrective actions through the problem management process.
- Contribute to major incident bridges, providing explicit and timely status updates to service delivery managers and client stakeholders.

Performance, Backup and Recovery
- Monitor database health and performance using AWR, ADDM, ASH, Oracle Enterprise Manager and the client's monitoring toolset.
- Tune SQL, indexes and instance parameters, and work with application teams to remediate poorly performing code.
- Design, implement and validate backup and recovery strategies using RMAN, including scheduled restore testing.
- Execute recovery operations and point-in-time recovery, and take part in disaster recovery drills and documented failover exercises.
- Manage data movement activities including Data Pump exports and imports, non-production refreshes, and database cloning.

Automation, Documentation and Collaboration
- Automate routine administration and health checks using shell scripting,



PL/SQL and the team's automation tooling.
- Maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles and as-built documentation so that more issues are resolved at first contact.
- Mentor junior engineers, review their work and raise the quality of shift handovers.
- Partner with cloud, infrastructure, network and application teams on migrations, upgrades and platform initiatives, including Oracle workloads running on Azure, AWS or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Four to seven years of hands-on Oracle database administration experience, including a track record of resolving complex escalations independently.
- Strong working knowledge of Oracle 12c, 18c and 19c on Linux and Unix platforms.
- Demonstrated experience with RMAN backup and recovery, Data Guard and Data Pump.
- Proven performance tuning experience using AWR, ASH and execution plan analysis.
- Practical Linux administration and shell scripting skills, together with solid PL/SQL.
- Experience working to formal ITIL processes for incident, problem and change management within a ticketing platform such as Jira Service Management or ServiceNow.
- Willingness to work rotational shifts, including nights and weekends, as part of a 24x7 support roster.
- Clear written and spoken English, with confidence in client-facing communication.

ALIANDO is an equal-opportunity employer committed to Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. Individuals seeking employment at ALIANDO are considered without regard to any protected category, including but not limited to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

📌 Oracle Database Administrator (India)
🏢 ALIANDO
📍 India