Senior Specialist - Oracle Database Administrator

About the role

Fisher HR is recruiting a Senior Specialist - Oracle Database Administrator in Dubai on a full-time basis. The role covers the installation, configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and security of enterprise Oracle databases, working closely with information security teams and IT service management.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade and maintain Oracle databases from 11g to 23ai, including Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
• Manage storage with ASM, ACFS, traditional file systems and Exadata components.
• Monitor performance, alerts and health via Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and produce regular health checks and capacity reports.
• Manage users, roles, privileges, scheduled jobs and access permissions.
• Tune SQL queries, analyse execution plans and troubleshoot performance, connectivity and storage issues.
• Implement and test backup and recovery with RMAN and Data Pump, and run restore tests.
• Maintain tablespaces, indexes, statistics, storage reclamation, patching and routine maintenance.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery with Oracle RAC, Data Guard and GoldenGate, and take part in DR drills.
• Analyse performance with AWR, ADDM, ASH and SQLT, and fix SQL bottlenecks.
• Apply security controls such as TDE, Database Vault, VPD and data masking, and audit logging aligned with CIS and NIST standards.
• Automate tasks with Bash and KornShell scripts, manage incidents through ITSM tools, raise tickets with Oracle Support and lead root cause analysis.
• Document, assess and approve changes according to change management procedures.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• At least 8 years of hands-on experience as an Oracle Database Administrator.
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) certification is required.
• Experience with Oracle Exadata or Oracle Database Appliance (ODA).
• English proficiency required; Arabic preferred.

Required skills

• In-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (11g-23ai), Oracle RAC and Grid Infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with OEM, RMAN, Data Guard, GoldenGate, ASM, ACFS, ZFS and Exadata.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Azure environments supporting Oracle databases.
• Knowledge of Oracle Multitenant architecture (CDB/PDB) and shell scripting (Bash/KornShell).
• Basic Linux administration, preferably Oracle Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu or CentOS.
• ITSM tools such as ManageEngine; exposure to SQL Server, MongoDB, MariaDB or PostgreSQL is an advantage.