Senior Oracle DBA

Senior Oracle DBA

Maryland Heights, MO

Type: Contract

Category: Engineer

Industry: Communications

Standard Hours: Open

Reference ID: JN -102026-108964

Date Posted: 10/07/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/oT1dSp

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Description:

Hybrid 4 days onsite in Maryland Heights, MO

Our client is seeking a Senior Oracle DBA to support a large-scale enterprise environment. The role emphasizes database reliability, incident resolution, and proactive monitoring across on-premises and cloud-hosted Oracle environments. The position focuses on maintaining health, stability, and performance of mission-critical databases while partnering with application, infrastructure, and support teams. Hands-on Oracle GoldenGate experience and strong production support capabilities are essential. The engagement is expected through December 2026 with likely extension, subject to business needs.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $60.00 to $68.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, maintain, and improve the health, availability, and performance of Oracle database environments.

• Proactively identify and resolve database issues before they impact business operations.

• Investigate alerts, troubleshoot performance issues, and conduct root cause analysis.

• Participate in production incident response and bridge calls to support critical issue resolution and on-call rotation.

• Collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, and DBA leads to ensure database stability.

• Execute day-to-day operational DBA activities including monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance.

• Support release activities, change management, and create MOP documentation.

• Assist with performance tuning, optimization, patching, upgrades, and migrations.

• Contribute to cloud and modernization initiatives across hybrid environments including OCI, AWS, or GCP.

• Ensure data recovery, data integrity, capacity planning, and adherence to standards and best practices.

Experience Requirements:

• 10+ years of Oracle DBA experience in large enterprise environments.

• Strong production support and operational database administration background.

• Hands-on experience with Oracle GoldenGate.

• Expertise troubleshooting performance, availability, and stability issues in production.

• Proven incident management experience supporting mission-critical databases.

• Strong understanding of database monitoring, health checks, and proactive maintenance.

• Experience with Oracle patching, upgrades, migrations, and high availability.

• Public cloud experience with OCI, AWS, or GCP and hybrid cloud database support.

• Effective communication and collaboration with technical and business stakeholders.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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