Job title: ExaCC / Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database Administrator
Work Location: Texas City, TX 77591
Minimum years of experience: 8 Years
Job Description:
Hands-on experience with Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC) patching and maintenance.
Strong expertise in OCI patch automation, Oracle RAC patching, and LCM Fleet operations for patch management.
Proven experience in planning, coordinating, and executing patching cycles across ExaCC databases and infrastructure.
Ability to manage and implement Security Patches, PSU/CPU updates, and critical Oracle fixes while ensuring system availability, performance, and compliance with organizational standards.
Strong understanding of Oracle infrastructure administration, patch governance, and operational best practices.
Any additional information you would like to share about the project specs/nature of work:
Lead, manage and execute ExaCC patching lifecycle (compute nodes, DomU VMs, Grid Infrastructure and Databases).
Plan, schedule, and execute OCI patching cycles across ExaCC infrastructure and DomU OS images, compute OS instances.
Experienced with OCI console, CLI and Rest APIs to apply, rollback and monitor patches.
Automate patching workflows using Terraform, Ansible.
Manage Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) patching including GRID and RDBMS, both in-place and out-of-place patch ensuring high availability.
Integrate and manage patching operations using LCM Fleet operations with OEM that includes gold image creation and deployment.
Database patching in RAC and Data Guard enabled environments.
Administer and troubleshoot Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management).
Plan, schedule, and execute quarterly PSU/CPU, Third-Party and one-off patches with minimal downtime.
Perform patch impact assessments, risk evaluations, and rollback strategies.
Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cyber security teams to coordinate patch cycles.
Maintain documentation of patching procedures, schedules, and standards.
Troubleshoot patch-related issues, database failures, and post-patch anomalies and provide RCA with remediation.
Drive process improvements to reduce downtime, manual errors, and patching cycle times.
Strong understanding of investigation and remediation techniques for non-patch related vulnerabilities.