DBA Team Leader

The Role DBA Team Leader

You will take on a handson leadership role within the database team directly supporting and managing the 24/7 operation of MSS and customer databases. While providing technical direction and mentoring to the team you will also remain actively involved in the design administration and support of database systems across development test and production environments.

Youll be expected to lead by exampleowning complex incidents guiding technical implementations and working closely with engineers project teams and stakeholders to ensure robust secure and highperforming database services under high transaction volumes.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & HandsOn Contribution:

• Lead and mentor a team of DBAs ensuring technical excellence operational continuity and personal development.
• Actively contribute to complex database work including performance tuning troubleshooting migrations and architecture decisions.
• Organize and oversee 24/7 support coverage participating in the oncall rotation when needed.
• Champion best practices in database administration tuning documentation and process improvement.

Technical Database Management:

• Take a leading handson role in the installation tuning patching and upgrade of Oracle 12c/18c/19c on Linux and Windows environments.
• Ensure optimal performance and availability through active monitoring and tuning efforts.
• Drive the implementation of robust backup/recovery strategies using RMAN and Data Guard.
• Maintain and evolve operational documentation and configuration standards.

Cloud Technologies (AWS / OCI):

• Directly lead and contribute to the deployment of cloudbased managed databases services using AWS RDS and OCI DBaaS.
• Perform handson migrations from onpremises to cloud using tools like Oracle GoldenGate.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resource utilization for performance cost and scalability.

Security & Compliance:

• Implement and maintain security controls including auditing and access management.
• Lead patching and vulnerability remediation efforts with support from the infrastructure and security teams.
• Ensure adherence to compliance and regulatory requirements.

Monitoring & Incident Management:

• Define and track KPIs related to database uptime performance and incidents.
• Use tools like Oracle Diagnostics Pack OEM Zabbix and Grafana to monitor system health and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Personally lead major incident resolution efforts and root cause analysis when needed.

Success will be evaluated by

• Technical quality and impact of your handson contributions.
• Performance and development of the DBA team.
• Effectiveness in automating database administrative duties incident management change execution and project delivery.
• Accuracy and completeness of technical documentation and reporting.
• Proactive improvements in system performance and reliability.
• Stakeholder satisfaction and service continuity.

Your Profile

• Youre a seniorlevel Oracle DBA with strong handson experience in Oracle 12c/18c/19c container/pluggable and autonomous databases and a track record of delivering in highavailability environments.
• You have experience leading teams or mentoring other DBAs with strong collaboration and communication skills.
• You thrive in technical leadership roles where youre actively solving problemsnot just delegating them.
• Youre comfortable working across onprem and cloud platforms including AWS and Oracle Cloud.
• You have deep knowledge of backup recovery security and performance tuning best practices.
• Youre calm under pressure detailoriented and focused on continuous improvementfor yourself and your team.

Additional Information :

At Sportradar we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs facilities and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) we believe skills evolve over time. If youre willing to learn and grow with us we invite you to join our team!

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime