Lead Database Reliability Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! Lead Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) - Oracle RAC Self-Managed Oracle RAC | HA/DR | Performance | Automation | Engineering Influence Level Lead DBRE Domain Oracle RAC and Mission-Critical Relational Infrastructure Primary Focus Hands-on Oracle RAC reliability, lifecycle ownership, technical escalation, automation, application partnership, and cross-functional execution Work Expectations U.S. Eastern Time business hours; on-call participation as required   1.

Summary We are seeking an experienced Lead DBRE with deep hands-on expertise in Oracle Database and self-managed Oracle RAC environments. The role owns technical execution for a major Oracle domain and improves reliability, performance, scalability, lifecycle management, automation, and operational discipline. Beyond traditional DBA operations, the Lead DBRE partners with application and infrastructure teams to influence schema, SQL, connection management, resiliency, observability, and safe deployment practices. The role remains hands-on while providing technical leadership, mentoring, and incident escalation. 2. Level Scope and Leadership Expectations Lead DBRE is a senior technical leadership role focused on owning execution for a major database domain. The expectation is to solve difficult production problems, lead initiatives end to end, guide engineers, create durable operating standards, and drive cross-functional closure without default people-management responsibility. Dimension Expectation at This Level Scope of Ownership Owns reliability and execution for a significant Oracle platform domain, including incidents, lifecycle activities, routine maintenance, capacity risks, HA/DR readiness, and service-impacting improvements. Technical Depth Diagnoses complex RAC, Clusterware, ASM, Data Guard, SQL performance, storage, interconnect, OS, backup, and recovery problems. Technical Leadership Acts as a primary escalation point, mentors engineers, reviews designs, raises standards, and influences application and infrastructure decisions. Execution Leads complex initiatives end to end, aligns stakeholders, manages dependencies, and drives permanent corrective actions to closure. Communication Explains technical tradeoffs, communicates clearly during incidents, and keeps risks, ownership, dependencies, and timelines visible. Automation and Standards Builds repeatable automation, CI/CD practices, runbooks, monitoring, and golden paths that reduce toil and failure risk.   3.

A. Oracle RAC Platform Ownership • Administer and improve Oracle RAC, Grid Infrastructure, Clusterware, ASM, services, SCAN/listeners, and interconnect configurations. • Plan and execute patching, upgrades, migrations, capacity changes, and lifecycle activities with controlled change and rollback practices. • Design, operate, and validate Data Guard, RMAN, backup/recovery, failover, switchover, and disaster-recovery procedures. B. Performance and Incident Leadership • Lead performance analysis using AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL Monitor, execution plans, SQL Trace, TKPROF, and OS/storage diagnostics. • Diagnose Cache Fusion, GC waits, workload placement, connection storms, cluster instability, storage latency, and interconnect issues. • Serve as the technical escalation point for critical incidents, lead stabilization and RCA, and drive permanent corrective actions. C. Engineering Influence and Shift-Left Reliability • Partner with application teams on SQL, indexing, partitioning, schema design, bind usage, connection pooling, transaction boundaries, and resilient failover behavior. • Establish database design reviews, deployment guardrails, developer guidance, and production-readiness standards. D. Automation and Observability • Automate provisioning, validation, patching, maintenance, backup checks, DR exercises, health checks, and recurring