Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Contract)

About the role

KalSoft is seeking a senior Oracle Database Administrator to join its on‑site team in Oman. The role focuses on ensuring the availability, security and performance of mission‑critical Oracle environments for key business applications.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain 24x7 availability, reliability and performance of Oracle databases supporting critical applications.
• Design, implement and manage disaster‑recovery solutions using Oracle Data Guard, Active Data Guard and GoldenGate.
• Configure and administer high‑availability architectures such as Oracle RAC, Active‑Passive clustering and clustered environments.
• Develop and execute backup and recovery strategies with RMAN, Data Pump and OS‑level backups, automating tasks via scripts.
• Perform database restorations, recoveries and migrations with minimal impact.
• Administer database security, including users, roles, privileges, auditing and hardening.
• Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks and tune SQL, PL/SQL, memory, storage and network settings.
• Manage Oracle ASM, tablespaces, data files and capacity planning.

Required profile

• Omani national with 12+ years of Oracle database administration experience.
• Proven expertise in high‑availability, disaster‑recovery and performance tuning for enterprise‑scale systems.
• Strong background in backup/recovery, security hardening and database architecture design.
• Ability to work on‑site in Oman and provide on‑call support for production environments.

Required skills

• Oracle Database (multiple versions)
• Oracle RAC
• Oracle Data Guard / Active Data Guard
• Oracle GoldenGate
• RMAN and Data Pump (expdp/impdp)
• Oracle ASM
• SQL and PL/SQL
• Bash scripting
• Perl scripting
• Oracle Streams, SQL*Loader, Transportable Tablespaces