Application Database Administrator - Oracle DBA / Exadata Support Engineer

Valleysoft is a regional IT services provider delivering enterprise technology, application development, process management, and Oracle-related solutions to clients globally. Working across the Information Technology and Services sector, the company supports organizations that rely on stable, secure, and high-performing enterprise systems to run critical business operations.

This role sits at the heart of that support model, helping ensure Oracle database platforms remain reliable, available, and performant in demanding production environments. It is a strong fit for a database professional who brings deep Oracle administration expertise and enjoys solving complex operational challenges across infrastructure, application, storage, network, and security domains.

As an Application Database Administrator – Oracle DBA / Exadata Support Engineer, you will play a key role in supporting mission-critical Oracle environments and maintaining the resilience of core database services. The position combines production support, platform administration, performance optimization, and cross-functional coordination, with meaningful impact on system availability, recovery readiness, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 database administration and production support for mission-critical Oracle environments.
• Administer and support Oracle Database 12c and 19c environments.
• Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and patching.
• Manage database creation, cloning, refresh, backup, recovery, and validation activities.
• Administer users, roles, profiles, privileges, database security, tablespaces, schemas, and capacity.
• Perform database health checks, proactive monitoring, and availability management.
• Administer and troubleshoot Oracle Exadata environments, including Cell Servers and Storage Servers.
• Use CellCLI and related Exadata command-line tools for operational support.
• Administer and troubleshoot Oracle RAC, ASM, and Data Guard environments.
• Execute switchover, failover, disaster recovery planning, testing, and recovery procedures.
• Perform database and SQL performance tuning using AWR, ASH, and ADDM analysis.
• Investigate wait events, locking, sessions, and resource utilization issues.
• Monitor database performance and availability using Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• Troubleshoot critical production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, storage, network, and security teams.
• Maintain technical documentation for operational procedures and support activities.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Oracle Database Administration experience, including senior-level L2/L3 production support for Oracle database environments.
• Hands-on production experience with Oracle Database 12c/19c and Oracle Exadata environments.
• Strong experience handling critical production incidents and troubleshooting in mission-critical database environments, including providing clear technical updates on impact, recovery actions, root cause, and preventive measures.
• Proven experience with database performance tuning for Oracle environments.
• Hands-on experience with RMAN backup and recovery, Oracle RAC, ASM, and Oracle Data Guard.
• Experience using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control for monitoring and administration.
• Solid Linux administration experience with shell scripting.
• Experience working with application or development teams to troubleshoot database-related application issues and performance problems.
• Experience coordinating with infrastructure, storage, network, security, backup, disaster recovery, and DBA or infrastructure teams during production deployments, patching, upgrades, maintenance, and operational issue resolution.
• Experience preparing root cause analysis reports for high-severity or recurring database incidents.
• Eligibility to work in Egypt.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OCI / Oracle Cloud.
• Experience working within ITIL-based support processes.
• Experience communicating directly with senior technical stakeholders or management during critical incidents.
• Experience coordinating with Oracle or vendor support for complex Exadata or database issues.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Training & Development