Database Administration Lead Analyst
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Posted on:
11-11-2025
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Senior Oracle Database Engineer
Application Developer Lead Analyst
Role Overview
As a Senior Oracle Database Engineer you will join the Cigna Technology Team supporting the Middle East region and Health Services businesses. Youll work within an agile team responsible for maintaining and optimizing Oracle database environmentsboth on-premises and in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)as well as supporting Oracle Fusion implementations -based applications.
This role is critical to ensuring the performance security and availability of our data platforms as we expand our digital footprint across the region.
About You
You are a highly skilled Oracle Database Engineer with hands-on experience managing complex database environments. Youre passionate about technology proactive in solving problems and eager to learn new tools and platforms. You thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy working collaboratively across teams.
Core Responsibilities
- Maintain Oracle databases across Cloud (OCI) and on-premises environments to meet organizational data storage and retrieval needs.
- Monitor and optimize database performance including query tuning indexing and configuration adjustments.
- Perform regular maintenance tasks such as backups patching and version upgrades to ensure data consistency and system integrity.
- Implement performance monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively address performance issues.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database-related incidents and problems in collaboration with application teams.
- Support schema setup load balancing failover and connection management for application teams.
- Proactively tune systems for performance and stability ensuring SLAs are met for large-scale databases.
- Perform root-cause analysis and troubleshooting as a Linux Systems Admin/Engineer.
- Manage installations and configurations of Oracle RAC Data Guard and GoldenGate.
- Install and manage Oracle databases in OCI and Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) environments.
- Implement and manage cloud networking tasks such as IPsec VPN FastConnect and interconnectivity between cloud and on-premises systems.
- Apply best practices in cloud security including identity and access management encryption and compliance.
- Develop and maintain backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data availability and business continuity.
- Integrate and manage Microsoft Active Directory (AD) security within database environments.
- Maintain appropriate levels of SQL Server security and access controls.
- Monitor trend and tune SQL databases including running maintenance jobs (backups DBCCs indexing/re-indexing).
- Ensure SQL Server patching installation and backup processes are functioning as expected.
Essential Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of experience managing Oracle Database solutions in production environments.
- Expert-level knowledge of Oracle architecture administration and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of networking storage systems and ASM disk groups.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle RAC Data Guard GoldenGate and OCI deployments.
- Experience with SQL tuning trace file analysis listener logs and alert logs.
- Proficiency in data extraction transformation masking subsetting and loading.
- Experience with SQL Server maintenance performance tuning and security.
- Ability to estimate work effort and manage multiple tasks in parallel.
Desirable Skills
- Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or equivalent certification.
- Experience with Oracle Fusion applications.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Exposure to finance or healthcare-related systems.
Key Competencies
- Flexible and open-minded with a willingness to work with legacy and modern systems.
- Passionate about applying technology to solve business problems.
- Proactive enthusiastic and solution-oriented.
- Proven ability to deliver results in fast-paced evolving environments.
- Creative thinker and effective collaborator.
- Comfortable navigating conflict and ambiguity.
- Team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
About The Cigna Group
Cigna Healthcare a division of The Cigna Group is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Databases
- SQL
- Database Marketing
- Microsoft SQL Server
- ssrs
- Tableau
- Data Management
- Database Design
- SSIS
- T Sql
- Database Administration
- Oracle
About Company
Cigna Healthcare offers health insurance plans such as medical and dental to individuals and employers, international health insurance, and Medicare coverage.
