Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking an Oracle Database Administrator to support database operations in a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. The role manages Oracle database monitoring, maintenance, performance tuning, backups, security, compliance, troubleshooting, and operational support across development, test, staging, and production environments.
Responsibilities
- Perform daily Oracle database administration, monitoring, maintenance, and health checks
- Develop and manage maintenance plans, job schedules, and database housekeeping routines
- Execute and validate backups, restores, and recovery procedures to ensure data integrity
- Apply patching, version updates, and configuration changes across environments
- Support schema updates, index optimization, table maintenance, and data structure enhancements
- Troubleshoot performance issues, query bottlenecks, and system errors across dev/test/prod environments
- Maintain auditing, logging, encryption, and access controls in accordance with DoD cybersecurity requirements
- Document database configurations, operational processes, and environment baselines
- Collaborate with development teams to validate stored procedures, queries, and database interactions
- Coordinate with cybersecurity staff to remediate vulnerabilities, STIG findings, and compliance gaps
- Support release cycles, refreshes, data migrations, and environment synchronization activities
- Provide recommendations for performance improvement, storage utilization, and operational efficiency
Skills
- Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Database Administration, or a related discipline
- Minimum **5 years** of experience in Oracle database administration
- Experience performing daily maintenance, patching, tuning, and operational monitoring
- Experience supporting database operations across development, test, and production environments
- Experience with indexing, query performance troubleshooting, and schema management
- Experience applying DoD security requirements to Oracle database systems
- Strong expertise with Oracle Database technologies and administration tools
- Knowledge of RMF controls, STIGs, encryption, and access control implementation
- Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, indexing strategies, and query optimization
- Familiarity with backup and recovery tools, RMAN, and Oracle data utilities
- Experience with monitoring platforms and performance analytics
- CompTIA Security+
- Oracle Database Administrator certification (OCA, OCP, or equivalent)
- Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting ability for Oracle database issues
- Clear written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with technical teams
- Excellent attention to detail, accuracy, and documentation discipline
- Ability to manage multiple tasks across distributed environments
- Commitment to secure, stable, and optimized database operations
- Experience with IL5 cloud-hosted database environments
- Experience supporting CI/CD or DevSecOps workflows involving database changes
- Familiarity with other relational database platforms
- AWS Database Specialty
- CISSP or CCSP
Benefits
- This position is fully remote.
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