Database Administrator (Oracle)
About The Position
General Dynamics – Bath Iron Works is seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to support, maintain, and optimize its enterprise database environment. The role works with infrastructure, application development, data engineering, and business teams to ensure database reliability, availability, and performance. Operating under the BIW Business Operating System (BOS), the administrator ensures compliance with safety, quality, and performance standards while coordinating with stakeholders to meet overall milestones. The position covers Oracle databases in development, test, and production environments, including installation, configuration, patching, cloning, backup, recovery, performance tuning, and high availability. It also involves database security and compliance, backup and restore strategy, disaster recovery planning, schema and data modeling support, SQL code reviews, documentation, on-call support, training, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 5–10 years of hands-on Oracle DBA experience in a production environment.
- Expertise with Oracle versions 12c and 19c.
- Proficiency with RMAN, ASM, and OEM/Cloud Control.
- Strong database performance optimization and tuning skills.
- Understanding of Oracle enterprise management best practices.
- Solid understanding of Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting.
- Experience with backup strategies and disaster recovery planning.
- Familiarity with PL/SQL, SQL query tuning, and schema design.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience with Oracle Cloud (OCI) or cloud-hosted Oracle workloads.
- Experience with enterprise data warehouses.
- Understanding of DevOps pipelines, CI/CD, and Git workflows.
- Experience supporting ERP or other enterprise applications.
- Oracle certifications (OCA, OCP, OCM).
- Experience with SQL Server 2019, 2022, or 2025.
Responsibilities
- Act as a safety leader for the team and help foster a culture of operational safety.
- Ensure all safety training is completed on time.
- Administer, maintain, and support Oracle databases across development, test, and production environments.
- Perform installation, configuration, patching, cloning, backup, and recovery using RMAN and related tools.
- Monitor database performance and execute tuning activities.
- Implement and maintain high availability solutions, including RAC and ASM.
- Manage database security, user access, roles, and compliance with company standards.
- Design and implement backup and restore strategies and lead disaster recovery planning.
- Support schema design, data modeling, and SQL code reviews.
- Maintain documentation, standard operating procedures, and architectural diagrams.
- Participate in on-call rotations and support critical incidents.
- Take part in training to develop working knowledge of new database management tools and methodologies, and attend BIW training opportunities as required.
- Collaborate with application teams to troubleshoot issues and optimize SQL queries.
- Communicate effectively across application and data engineering functions.
- Identify and implement database management process improvements and optimizations as required.
Benefits
- Medical and dental insurance coverage
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Flexible spending accounts/HSAs
- Life and disability insurance
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Health coaching
- Athletic trainers
- Employee assistance programs
- Onsite health services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
