Job Description
Role: Associate Consultant – Oracle DBA & Cloud Services
Practice: Infrastructure / Managed Cloud Services (IMS)
Primary Technology: Oracle Applications & Database Administration
Development Areas: OCI, OLA and PeopleSoft
The position is intended to develop into a broader Oracle Cloud and Applications consulting role through structured learning, certification, shadowing, and hands-on customer delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Oracle DBA & Database Operations
- Support Oracle application and database environments across production and non-production systems.
- Perform routine Oracle database monitoring, health checks and administration.
- Monitor database availability, tablespace utilization, CPU, memory, storage, sessions and database alerts.
- Support Oracle database backup and recovery using RMAN
- Perform Data Pump export/import and database/schema refresh activities.
- Support database and application cloning activities.
- Assist with Oracle database and application patching activities.
- Support user, role, privilege, profile and tablespace administration.
- Review alert logs, trace files and ORA errors and assist with troubleshooting.
- Support performance monitoring and basic SQL/database performance analysis.
- Follow established SOPs, runbooks, change-management and incident-management processes.
- Participate in production support, incident resolution, RCA and preventive improvement activities.
Oracle Applications / Apps DBA
Develop hands-on capability in:
- Oracle E-Business Suite architecture and administration.
- Application tier and database tier administration.
- Application services start/stop and health monitoring.
- Concurrent processing and application service monitoring.
- Oracle EBS cloning and environment refresh.
- Application and database patching.
- Configuration and troubleshooting.
- Performance and availability monitoring.
- Backup, recovery and DR operational procedures.
OCI & Cloud
Develop practical understanding of:
- OCI architecture and core services.
- Compute, Storage, Networking and IAM.
- OCI database services.
- Monitoring, Logging and Notifications.
- Backup and recovery.
- Security and access management.
- Cloud provisioning and operational support.
- Cost, capacity and resource management.
- Automation and Infrastructure as Code concepts.
PeopleSoft
Build foundational operational knowledge of:
- PeopleSoft architecture and components.
- Application Server.
- Process Scheduler.
- Web Server.
- PeopleSoft database architecture.
- Environment start/stop and health checks.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Backup, recovery and environment refresh concepts.
- PeopleSoft patching and maintenance processes.
Automation & Operational Improvement
- Identify repetitive DBA/operational activities suitable for automation.
- Support scripting and automation initiatives.
- Contribute to monitoring and alerting improvements.
- Maintain operational documentation, SOPs, runbooks and Knowledge Base articles.
- Participate in CCOE/Practice improvement initiatives.
- Leverage existing Java, API and CI/CD knowledge where applicable to cloud and database automation.
Development Goals
Rajesh's structured development objectives will include:
OCI Foundation Certification
- Complete OCI Foundation training and achieve the relevant Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations certification
OLA
- Develop working knowledge of OLA, including architecture, operational processes, deployment/support methodology and its use within the Oracle managed-services environment.
PeopleSoft
- Develop foundational PeopleSoft administration knowledge sufficient to participate in routine operational support under guidance.
Oracle Apps DBA
- Transition existing Core DBA knowledge into practical Oracle Apps DBA capability through training, shadowing and hands-on support.
Performance Expectations
Performance will be evaluated across both customer delivery and capability development, including:
- Quality and timeliness of assigned support activities.
- Adherence to SLA, change and operational processes.
- Reduction of repeat operational issues through documentation and automation.
- Quality of SOPs/runbooks and knowledge contribution.
- Progress in Oracle Apps DBA capability.
- Completion of OCI certification.
- Demonstrated progress in OLA and PeopleSoft.
- Ability to independently handle progressively more complex Oracle operational activities.
- Collaboration with Apps DBA, Cloud, Infrastructure and Application teams.
Target Capability
The objective is to develop Rajesh from his existing Oracle Core DBA foundation into a multi-skilled Oracle Apps DBA / Cloud Associate Consultant capable of supporting:
Oracle Core DBA → Oracle Apps DBA → OCI → OLA → PeopleSoft
while progressively contributing to the broader IMS Oracle Cloud and Managed Services practice