Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to support production database environments for enterprise digital applications.

The candidate will be responsible for database monitoring, performance optimization, incident troubleshooting, backup and recovery support, and ensuring database availability and reliability in an SLA-driven production environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide L2/L3 production support for Oracle database environments.
- Monitor database availability, performance, storage utilization, sessions and resource consumption.
- Investigate and resolve database connectivity failures, slow queries, locking issues and performance degradation.
- Perform SQL performance analysis, query optimization and execution plan reviews.
- Support database backup, restoration and recovery procedures.
- Monitor database jobs, tablespaces, alerts and database error logs.
- Assist with database patching, maintenance and configuration changes through approved change processes.
- Support application teams in troubleshooting database-related production incidents.
- Coordinate with Java/backend engineers and DevOps teams during critical incidents.
- Support database high availability, disaster recovery and failover validation.
- Participate in root cause analysis, post-incident reviews and problem management.
- Maintain database operational runbooks,



troubleshooting documentation and recovery procedures.
- Provide on-call support and participate in rotational shifts as required.

Required Technical Skills

- 4-7 Years of Experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in Oracle Database Administration (Oracle 19c or equivalent).
- Good knowledge of Oracle database architecture and administration.
- Robust SQL and PL/SQL troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with RMAN backup and recovery.
- Knowledge of database performance tuning, AWR, ASH and execution plans.
- Experience monitoring database sessions, locks, tablespaces and storage.
- Familiarity with Oracle Data Guard and high-availability configurations.
- Good Linux administration and shell scripting knowledge.
- Understanding of database security, access management and patching.
- Experience supporting business-critical production database environments.

Good to Have

- Experience with Oracle RAC.
- Familiarity with Oracle Enterprise Manager.
- Knowledge of database migration, replication and data synchronization.
- Experience supporting Java/Spring Boot applications.
- Understanding of microservices-related database architecture.
- Exposure to database automation and infrastructure monitoring.
- Experience in telecom or high-volume transactional applications.

📌 Oracle Database Administrator (Kochi)
🏢 Astek
📍 Kochi