Senior Principal Oracle Database Administrator with Security Clearance

Position Summary: While you'll have access to other DBA staff, you'll be expected to be a self-starter and multitask while communicating effectively with the customer. The ideal candidate will have previous experience supporting medium-to-large-scale Oracle databases. What You'll Be Doing: Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting the RHEL 8.x OS supporting Oracle Database software in physical and virtualized environments. Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting pluggable and containerized Oracle 19c Databases in physical and virtualized environments. Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Oracle RAC 19c. Performing RHEL 8.x and Oracle 19c upgrades/patching. Periodically validating Oracle 19c backup/recovery operations leveraging RMAN. Monitoring and troubleshooting Oracle database performance (with AWR reports, database views, etc.). Providing on-demand support for database-related issues, and if necessary, working with Oracle support to address any unsolvable issues. Working with the product support and development teams to address issues or bugs discovered in products running at a customer location. Working with onsite government, contractor, or subcontractor staff to resolve issues with onsite products as a first line of support. Reviewing, applying, and remediating security vulnerabilities or security controls based on STIG guidance or scanning reports. Installing firmware updates on physical components such as HPE servers and HP SANs. Communicating daily with customers and management, providing detailed activity summaries and in-depth trip reports where applicable. Other duties as assigned. What Environment You'll Be Supporting: Database Configuration: Primary and Secondary Oracle 19c database RAC servers on physical hardware. Database Size: Up to 1.5 PB, with growth at a rate of 10TB per month. Things You Must Have to Apply: An active (currently in use) TS/SCI with Polygraph. A bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Cyber Security, or equivalent education and work experience. At least one DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certification at IAT Level II (2) or higher. (These are required only for DoD professional services roles). The ability to obtain the appropriate work authorizations required under U.S. ITAR or EAR regulations from the applicable U.S. government agency. 14+ years' experience performing the following tasks: Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting the RHEL 8.x OS supporting Oracle Database software in physical and virtualized environments. Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting pluggable and containerized Oracle 19c Databases in physical and virtualized environments. Installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Oracle RAC. Performing RHEL 8.x and Oracle 19c upgrades/patching. Periodically validating Oracle 19c backup/recovery operations leveraging RMAN. Monitoring and troubleshooting Oracle database performance. Providing on-demand support for database-related issues and, if needed, working with Oracle support to address any unsolvable issues. Working with the product support and development teams to address issues or bugs discovered in products running at a customer location. Working with onsite government, contractor, or subcontractor staff to resolve issues with onsite products as a first line of support. Reviewing, applying, and remediating security vulnerabilities or security controls based on STIG guidance or scanning reports. Installing firmware updates on physical components such as HPE servers, HP SANs, NFS, and ZFS appliances. Communicating daily with customers and Everfox management, providing detailed activity summaries and in-depth trip reports where applicable. Deep understanding of the following IT areas: Oracle RDBMS, partitioning, text indexing, grid, ASM, RMAN, SQL, PL/SQL, RAC, and scripting in support of automation and nightly processing jobs. Routing, switching, firewall rules, and TCP/UDP/SSH/FTP/SCP/HTTPS protocols. Creating, renewing, installing, and troubleshooting secure certificates for web servers/sites, appliances, or networking hardware. Server hardware installation, maintenance, and patching. Things That Would Be Nice to Have: Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GovCloud, or Google Cloud. Experience working with N-Tier architecture. Experience with Java application servers. Oracle Certifications, such as OCA, OCP, and OCM. Certifications from Cisco, McAfee, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, Symantec, or VMware.