Senior Oracle/Exadata DBA (Remote)

This position is open to remote candidates in North America. A qualified applicant must be local to the United States.

• Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*
  
  

Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services

About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.

Job Summary

Responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of Oracle databases in compliance with application specifications and company policies, standards and procedures.

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Performs installations and configurations of grid infrastructure, databases, clients etc.
• Designs and maintains access and security administration.
• Designs, implements and maintains backup and recovery strategies on Database Management Systems.
• Supports multiple services and multiple databases of medium complexity with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity and accessibility of data.
• Designs, installs, configures and maintains High Availability (RAC, RAC One Node, Data Guard etc.) Database solutions.
• Expertise in setup using OEM as a monitoring and diagnostics tool and identifies/resolve performance issues.
• Troubleshoots alerts (alert log, Jobs, Disk Group, Tablespace etc.) and performance issues.
• Performs capacity planning of Oracle server environment and provides recommendations to management to sustain business growth.
• Designs, implements, maintains Disaster Recovery (DR) methodologies and creates documentation.
• Gathers business requirements and designs, implements multiple projects along with the production support.
• Creates standard operational procedures and templates.
• Acts as mentor for Database Administrators and Associate Database Administrators.
• Performs research and provides plans to remediate complex business problems.
• Assists the development teams to improve database design and procedures on PL/SQL best practices etc.
  
  

Position Qualifications

• Experience supporting, configuring, and designing various Oracle databases and infrastructure components including Exadata, Postgre, RAC, etc).
• Good understanding of network setup and environment.
  
  

Salary And Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until 11/18/2024.

The annual salary for this position is between [$73,350] - [$116,000] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and is subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  
  

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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