Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FedEx Freight is hiring a Senior Advanced Database Administrator to design, configure, and manage enterprise-level databases. The role ensures data integrity, security, performance, and accessibility while leading complex projects, advising stakeholders, and mentoring junior staff.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the lead liaison between business stakeholders, development teams, and support groups
- Design and implement database solutions that ensure performance, scalability, and security
- Define and enforce standards for physical data storage, maintenance, access, and security
- Configure database parameters and manage data repositories, dictionaries, and warehousing requirements
- Perform and oversee backup and recovery operations using Database Management Systems (DBMS)
- Provide expert consultation across multiple major projects and initiatives
- Coach and mentor junior database administrators
- Ensure timely and high-quality deliverables
- Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Leadership and incident support: The position provides guidance to full-time employees and managed service resources, leads crisis-call triage and restoration efforts, supports Oracle database and operating system issues, and conducts root cause analysis after incidents
- Database engineering and resilience: Responsibilities include performance tuning, monitoring, schema and indexing changes, RAC, ASM, Data Guard, GoldenGate, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, migrations, continuous availability, disaster recovery, access governance, and legal-hold support across Linux environments and multiple datacenters
- Automation and technical expertise: The role develops Ansible automation for provisioning and maintenance, uses advanced shell scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, and Python, and benefits from knowledge of Oracle monitoring tools, Resource Manager, Red Hat Linux, Grafana, global server load balancing, job scheduling, and other database technologies
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Four (4) or more years of relevant work experience in an information technology or engineering environment, with a focus on database administration
- Expert-level knowledge of all phases of data administration
- Proficiency in database design, configuration, and performance tuning
- Strong understanding of data security, backup, and recovery strategies
- Ability to manage large-scale projects with minimal oversight
- Excellent problem-solving skills for complex and difficult challenges
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience mentoring others
- Familiarity with data warehousing and enterprise data architecture
- Principal-level Oracle Database Administrator responsibilities center on technical leadership, 24x7 enterprise support, resilient database operations, performance optimization, and automation
- The role supports large, complex Oracle environments while coordinating with application, infrastructure, security, architecture, and managed service teams
- Leadership and incident support: The position provides guidance to full-time employees and managed service resources, leads crisis-call triage and restoration efforts, supports Oracle database and operating system issues, and conducts root cause analysis after incidents
- Database engineering and resilience: Responsibilities include performance tuning, monitoring, schema and indexing changes, RAC, ASM, Data Guard, GoldenGate, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, migrations, continuous availability, disaster recovery, access governance, and legal-hold support across Linux environments and multiple datacenters
- Automation and technical expertise: The role develops Ansible automation for provisioning and maintenance, uses advanced shell scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, and Python, and benefits from knowledge of Oracle monitoring tools, Resource Manager, Red Hat Linux, Grafana, global server load balancing, job scheduling, and other database technologies
Benefits
- Remote position; the successful candidate must reside within 50 miles of a FedEx Freight location within the continental US.
- Eligible employees are offered health, vision, dental, life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance, an employee assistance program, personal/sick paid time, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, bonus potential, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, 2 weeks paid parental leave, paid bereavement, employee discounts, 6.67–13.34 hours vacation per month based on service time, and 8 paid holidays.
- In New Jersey, regular full- and part-time employees who complete 91 days of employment and work a minimum average of 12 hours per week are eligible to enroll in medical, dental, and/or vision coverage and tuition reimbursement.
- In New Jersey, full- and part-time employees age 21 are eligible for 401(k) after one month of employment.
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