Oracle DBA patch engineer

Job Title : Oracle DBA patch engineer

Location : Pan India

Experience : 8– 12 Years (STRICTLY)

Employment Type : Permanent

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners Only

About the Company

Our client is a trusted global innovator of IT and business services, present in 50+ countries. They specialize in digital & IT modernization, consulting, managed services, and industry-specific solutions. With a commitment to long-term success, they empower clients and society to move confidently into the digital future.

Job Description

Key Deliverables (Duties and Responsibilities)

• Manage and execute Exadata, ExaCC patching lifecycle (compute nodes, Dom U VMs, Grid Infrastructure and Databases).
• Exadata Infrastructure maintenance including Quarterly Maintenance Release (QMR) and Security Monthly Maintenance (SMR).
• Creating Infrastructure maintenance policy and define maintenance windows.
• Experienced with prep-work for before Infrastructure maintenance activities.
• 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, RDBMS and ASM.
• Integrate and manage patching operations using LCM Fleet operations with OEM that includes gold image creation and deployment for GI and RDBMS.
• Knowledge on Data guard enabled patching procedure.
• 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.
• Maintain documentation of patching procedures, schedules, and standards.
• Troubleshoot patch-related issues, database failures, and post-patch anomalies and provide RCA with remediation.
• Understanding of investigation and remediation techniques for non-patch related vulnerabilities.

Skills and Qualification (Functional and Technical Skills)

Mandatory Skills

Important Note (Please Read Before Applying)