Senior Database Site Reliability Engineer - Oracle Database and GoldenGate

Oracle Health Database Services is seeking a highly experienced, Site Reliability Engineer to lead database reliability engineering across mission-critical healthcare platforms.

This individual-contributor role combines Oracle Database expertise, cloud engineering, automation, AI-assisted operations, and technical project leadership. The successful candidate will deliver measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, operational readiness, and customer experience across database platforms.

This role is ideal for an engineer who can think strategically, execute hands-on, influence technical direction, and help transform traditional database operations into proactive, automated, engineering-led reliability practices.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $81,100 to $187,000 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

Senior Database Site Reliability Engineer – Oracle Database and GoldenGate (IC3)

Support the reliability, performance, and operational readiness of business-critical Oracle Health database services. This individual-contributor role combines hands-on Oracle Database administration and GoldenGate support with practical automation and reliability engineering. The team is onboarding 50 additional sites and transitioning toward a Gen 2 Oracle Health solution.

Responsibilities

• Operate and improve Oracle Database availability, performance, capacity, security, backup and recovery, and production readiness.
• Configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain Oracle GoldenGate replication; resolve replication issues and improve reliability as additional sites are onboarded.
• Diagnose and resolve production database incidents, participate in root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions to reduce repeat incidents.
• Develop and maintain SQL/PL-SQL scripts, operational health checks, and database automation to reduce manual work and operational risk.
• Maintain runbooks, monitoring, alerting, escalation procedures, and operational documentation; contribute to service-health reporting and reliability improvements.
• Contribute to database migrations, upgrades, performance tuning, capacity planning, and modernization initiatives, including OCI, Exadata, and Autonomous Database where applicable.
• Use version control and repeatable change practices to support safe database and automation changes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, cloud operations, Customer Success, and engineering teams to resolve database reliability issues and support production readiness.
• Identify opportunities to use AI-assisted tools and automation to improve troubleshooting, knowledge discovery, health checks, runbooks, and operational reporting within established security and change-control requirements.
• Own assigned technical work from planning through implementation, testing, documentation, and operational handoff; communicate progress, dependencies, risks, and issues clearly.
• Participate in technical reviews and share knowledge with teammates.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience with hands-on Oracle Database administration supporting business-critical production services. Relevant titles may include Oracle DBA, Database Reliability Engineer, Database SRE, or Production Engineer.
• Hands-on Oracle GoldenGate experience, including supporting, monitoring, and troubleshooting production replication.
• Proficiency in SQL/PL-SQL for database troubleshooting, operational tasks, and scripting.
• Experience supporting database availability, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and production incident resolution.
• Experience using Git or equivalent version control and familiarity with CI/CD or repeatable deployment and change workflows. Equivalent tools and approaches are acceptable.
• Strong troubleshooting, technical judgment, and communication skills, including the ability to document procedures and incident findings and collaborate across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle Grid Infrastructure, ASM, RAC, Data Guard, or RMAN.
• Experience with OCI, Exadata, ExaCC, ExaCS, Oracle Autonomous Database, or other cloud database environments.
• Unix/Linux administration and scripting experience, including Shell, Python, or Perl.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation or orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or equivalent. No specific named tool is required.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability, alerting, capacity models, SLIs/SLOs, or service-health reporting.
• Experience building API-driven automation, internal tools, or self-service workflows.
• Experience or interest in AI-assisted operations, LLMs, retrieval-based knowledge systems, or agent-based workflows, including MCP/API integrations.
• Experience supporting healthcare, regulated environments, or customer-facing enterprise platforms.

Work Authorization

This role is not eligible for sponsorship.