Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Job Description
This is a 12 month contracting starting latest by June 2026 with strong chance of extension (with possibility to extend for up to five years) based in Basel, Switzerland (50% home office offered).

This DBA will work in a small and diverse DBA Team of 4 x DBAs responsible for administration of the Oracle database infrastructures, and Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL. The new hire will work on a mix of project and operational related work in an enterprise environment, with a main focus on Oracle but also supporting migration of some applications onto Postgres.

Responsibilities

• Provide standardised templates and configurations for MS SQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL deployments.
• Support adoption of modern database technologies, including containerised database solutions.
• Backup / restore operations.
• Monitoring and alert management.
• Performance analysis and tuning.
• Automate routin...