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While this is a remote position, the successful candidate must reside within 50 miles of a FedEx Freight location within the continental US. POSITION OVERVIEW: Responsible for designing, configuring, and managing enterprise-level databases. This role ensures the integrity, security, performance, and accessibility of organizational data. The Data Base Administrator (DBA) leads complex projects, provides strategic consultation, and mentors junior staff while maintaining high standards for data storage, access, and recovery.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Serve as the lead liaison between business stakeholders, development teams, and support groups. Design and implement database solutions that ensure performance, scalability, and security. Define and enforce standards for physical data storage, maintenance, access, and security. Configure database parameters and manage data repositories, dictionaries, and warehousing requirements. Perform and oversee backup and recovery operations using Database Management Systems (DBMS).
Provide expert consultation across multiple major projects and initiatives. Coach and mentor junior database administrators. Ensure timely and high-quality deliverables. Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures. Perform other duties as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Four (4) or more years of relevant work experience in an information technology or engineering environment, with a focus on database administration. Expert-level knowledge of all phases of data administration. Proficiency in database design, configuration, and performance tuning. Strong understanding of data security, backup, and recovery strategies. Ability to manage large-scale projects with minimal oversight. Excellent problem-solving skills for complex and difficult challenges.
Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience mentoring others. Familiarity with data warehousing and enterprise data architecture. WORKING CONDITIONS: Some travel Preferred Skills/Knowledge: Principal-level Oracle Database Administrator responsibilities center on technical leadership, 24x7 enterprise support, resilient database operations, performance optimization, and automation.
The role supports large, complex Oracle environments while coordinating with application, infrastructure, security, architecture, and managed service teams. • Leadership and incident support: The position provides guidance to full-time employees and managed service resources, leads crisis-call triage and restoration efforts, supports Oracle database and operating system issues, and conducts root cause analysis after incidents.
• Database engineering and resilience: Responsibilities include performance tuning, monitoring, schema and indexing changes, RAC, ASM, Data Guard, GoldenGate, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, migrations, continuous availability, disaster recovery, access governance, and legal-hold support across Linux environments and multiple datacenters.
• Automation and technical expertise: The role develops Ansible automation for provisioning and maintenance, uses advanced shell scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, and Python, and benefits from knowledge of Oracle monitoring tools, Resource Manager, Red Hat Linux, Grafana, global server load balancing, job scheduling, and other database technologies. Pay Transparency: The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location(s).
If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the minimum and maximum range for all levels. Actual pay is determined by job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, such as experience, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment.
Eligible employees offered health, vision, dental, life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance, employee assistance program, personal/sick paid time, 401(k) retirement savings plan, bonus potential, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, 2 weeks paid parental leave, paid bereavement, employee discounts, 6.67–13.34 hours vacation per month based on service time, 8 paid holidays.
Pay Range: $103,880.00 - $181,790.00 Colorado Pay Ranges: Colorado Springs, Grand Junction $103,880.00 - $181,790.00; Henderson, Mead $103,880.00 - $181,790.00; Gypsum $103,880.00 - $181,790.00 Illinois Pay Ranges: Effingham, Kankakee, Lincoln, Quincy, Rockford, Aurora $103,880.00 - $181,790.00; Bolingbrook, Chicago Heights, Des Plaines, Elmhurst, Forest View, Joliet, Schaumburg, Summit-Argo, Zion $103,880.00 - $181,790.00 New York Pay Ranges: Plattsburgh, Buffalo, Watertown, North Chili, East Syracuse, Nichols $103,880.00 -
$181,790.00; Bethpage, Montgomery, West Babylon $103,880.00 - $181,790.00 New Jersey Job Postings: $103,880.00 - $142,835.00 This compensation range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting pay range in NJ. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level.
Actual starting pay is determined by experience relative to the job, market level, specific location and other job-related factors permitted by law. Regular full & part-time employees (who complete 91 days of employment and work a minimum average of 12 hours per week) are eligible to enroll in medical, dental, and/or vision coverage, tuition reimbursement. Full/part-time employees who are age 21 are eligible for 401(k) after one month of employment.
However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish
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