Oracle Utilities Applications DBA (OUAF + OU DBA Skills)

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Oracle Utilities Applications DBA with proven expertise in supporting Oracle Utilities applications (CC&B, MWM, MOM, SOA). The candidate must have strong skills in OUAF and Oracle DBA practices, with at least 5 years of database administration experience. This role ensures high availability, performance, and security of mission-critical utility systems.

This is a long-term contract in PST time zone - potential travel (low), no onsite work.

References will be requested upon selection to move forward. This is a pass/fail requirement.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain Oracle RAC Databases for CC&B, MWM, SOA, and related Oracle Utilities products.
• Administer Oracle Utilities environments, ensuring reliability, availability, and performance.
• Perform database performance tuning, schema maintenance, backup/recovery, patching, and refresh operations.
• Manage schema creation, indexing strategies, partitioning, and query optimization within OUAF environments.
• Implement and monitor database security, access controls, auditing, and PII data security.
• Support high-availability and disaster recovery solutions (RAC, Data Guard, Golden Gate).
• Work closely with application developers, architects, and system administrators to optimize interactions.
• Troubleshoot production issues, resolve incidents, and coordinate with Oracle for service requests.
• Participate in database migrations, upgrades, and environment refreshes.
• Maintain documentation, standards, and procedures for database administration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of Oracle DBA experience, with at least 3 years supporting Oracle Utilities applications.
• Strong experience with OUAF schema management and CC&B CISADM schema operations.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle engineered systems (Exadata, ZDLRA, ZFS, ODA).
• Expertise in database tuning, high availability, and DR strategies.
• Familiarity with data scrambling, production-to-test refreshes, and PII compliance.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.