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Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions. 

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. 

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive. 



Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Site Reliability Engineering Professional with a primary focus on Oracle Database Administration to join our SRE organization. This role demands strong hands-on expertise in managing Oracle databases across hybrid infrastructure, as well as experience with cloud migration, AWS RDS, and Terraform-based automation. You will play a critical role in ensuring database reliability, scalability, and performance while driving cloud adoption and infrastructure-as-code practices.


  • Administer and maintain Oracle databases (12c, 19c) in production and development environments.
  • Architect, implement, and support highly available Oracle solutions on AWS using RDS and EC2.
  • Lead efforts in migrating legacy on-prem databases to AWS Cloud.
  • Execute Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and manage database migrations from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
  • Optimize database performance through tuning, indexing, and efficient SQL query execution.
  • Design and automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and scripting languages like Shell or Python.
  • Ensure data integrity, security, and availability through robust monitoring and backup strategies.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployment in collaboration with DevOps and engineering teams.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex database-related incidents and perform detailed root cause analyses.
  • Continuously assess and implement tools to enhance database reliability and maintainability.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

 

  • 5+ years of experience.
  • Oracle Certified Professional (OCP).
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or CouchDB.
  • Hands-on exposure to Apache Kafka setup and maintenance.
  • Experience managing Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) or KVM-based environments.
  • Familiarity with hybrid or multi-cloud deployments.
Preferred technical and professional experience

 

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Core Oracle DBA, including high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning.
  • Proficient in managing AWS RDS for Oracle and leveraging other AWS components (e.g., EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
  • Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code and automated deployments.
  • Solid knowledge of backup/recovery techniques, Oracle Data Guard, and RMAN.
  • Familiarity with monitoring solutions and operational alerting.
  • Experience working in environments governed by ITIL practices and change management protocols.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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