# Oracle Senior Database Administrator

**Company**: Leidos Australia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Leidos Australia, you'll play a key role in shaping and maintaining the enterprise Oracle database landscape that underpins critical business services and applications.

As an Oracle Senior Database Administrator, you will provide technical leadership to ensure database platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable, and ready to support future growth and modernisation initiatives.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the design, administration, and continuous improvement of enterprise Oracle database environments, including high availability, disaster recovery, performance optimisation, and capacity planning.

- Partner with enterprise architects, infrastructure engineers, application teams, and cybersecurity stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing database solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms.

- Drive database transformation initiatives including migrations, upgrades, platform modernisation, cloud adoption, automation, and operational optimisation programs.

- Provide technical leadership and mentoring across the database capability, establishing engineering standards, guiding architectural decisions, and identifying opportunities to improve resilience, security, efficiency, and platform performance.

Requirements:

- Extensive experience in Oracle Database administration, architecture, and engineering within enterprise environments.

- Experience with Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, RMAN backup and recovery, and the design of highly available and resilient database platforms.

- Advanced capability in SQL and PL/SQL development, database performance tuning, workload optimisation, indexing, partitioning, and capacity management.

- Knowledge of Oracle database security, including authentication, authorisation, encryption, auditing, privileged-access controls, and data protection practices.

- Experience supporting database upgrades, migrations, patching, lifecycle management, and modernisation initiatives.

- Capability in Linux/Unix environments and database automation using scripting technologies such as Shell, SQL, PL/SQL, Python, or similar tools.

- Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable database solutions.

- Experience providing technical guidance, mentoring, and leadership to database administrators, engineers, or technical teams.

Benefits:

- Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.

- Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

- Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.

- Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.

- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.

## Skills

### Required
- Oracle Database administration
- Oracle RAC
- Oracle Data Guard
- RMAN backup and recovery
- SQL
- PL/SQL
- database performance tuning
- workload optimisation
- indexing
- partitioning
- capacity management
- Linux/Unix environments
- database automation
- scripting technologies

### Nice to have
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Oracle Autonomous Database
- Exadata
- cloud-native database services
- identity and access management
- cloud networking
- encryption
- security controls
- database consolidation
- platform optimisation
- virtualisation
- large-scale migration programs

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