Database Administrator

Accountabilities:

• • Provide day-to-day production support and administration for Oracle databases, ensuring reliability and availability.
  • Monitor database health, performance, capacity, and overall operational status.
  • Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve database incidents and production issues efficiently.
  • Perform database performance tuning, including SQL query optimization, index management, and server/database configuration.
  • Develop, maintain, modify, and manage SQL queries, database objects, and structures.
  • Participate in Oracle database upgrades, migrations, and related technical initiatives, including 12c-to-19c upgrades.
  • Support data migration and ETL processes, ensuring data is transferred and processed reliably.
  • Work with PostgreSQL and MongoDB environments when required.
  • Collaborate with developers, infrastructure teams, and other technical stakeholders to diagnose issues and implement effective solutions.
  • Follow established best practices for database security, reliability, backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and change management.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement, automation, monitoring, and operational efficiency of database environments.

  Requirements:

  • 3+ years of professional experience as an Oracle Database Administrator, with significant production-support experience.
  • Advanced English proficiency at approximately B2/C1 level, with the ability to communicate effectively in both written and spoken English.
  • Native Spanish or Portuguese proficiency.
  • Strong SQL expertise, including querying, creating, modifying, and managing database structures.
  • Hands-on experience with Oracle Database 12c–19c.
  • Experience with Oracle database upgrades, particularly migrations from 12c to 19c, is highly preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of database performance tuning, including SQL queries, indexes, and server/database configuration.
  • Experience with data migration and ETL processes.
  • Knowledge or hands-on experience with PostgreSQL/Postgres SQL.
  • Knowledge or hands-on experience with MongoDB.
  • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Ability to work independently and effectively within a distributed, international environment.
  • Experience in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, healthcare, biotechnology, or financial services is a plus.
  • Experience supporting high-availability or mission-critical production environments is a plus.
  • Familiarity with backup/recovery, disaster recovery, high-availability solutions, cloud-based databases, monitoring, or automation tools is advantageous.

  Benefits:

  • 100% remote work from Latin America.
  • Competitive salary paid in USD.
  • Long-term opportunity.
  • Independent Contractor agreement.
  • 10 paid business days / 2 weeks of PTO.
  • Paid U.S. holidays.
  • Full-time working schedule aligned with EST hours.
  • Opportunity to work with international technical teams and mission-critical database environments.
  • Exposure to Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ETL, database migration, and performance optimization projects.