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Job Description:

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As an Oracle and Open Source DBA Senior Engineer, you will play a critical role in managing, modernizing, and optimizing enterprise database environments. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with a global team of diverse professionals and contribute to transforming 3M’s data platform infrastructure. You will be responsible for the daily administration of Oracle, RDS/Aurora MySQL, and RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL databases, ensuring high performance, availability, and compliance.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Include:

• Supporting and modernizing enterprise database environments, with a focus on Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
• Developing and maintaining automation tools for database support and lifecycle management.
• Implementing and maintaining high availability and disaster recovery strategies for on-premises and cloud databases.
• Installing and administering database server environments; ensuring successful and available backups.
• Participating in Agile Scrum ceremonies and cross-functional projects.
• Ensuring database environments comply with internal and regulatory controls.
• Contributing to the strategic roadmap for future database technologies and cloud-native DB adoption.
• Maintaining health and compliance of AWS RDS/Aurora environments, including patching and upgrades.
• Collaborating on clustering, replication, and high-availability configurations.
• Supporting daily operations and planned initiatives within the database team.
• Fulfilling audit, DR compliance, and other regulatory commitments.

Basic Qualifications:

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• A bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 7 years of overall IT experience.
• At least 6 years of hands-on experience with Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database administration.
• 4+ years of experience in cloud environments (preferably AWS; Azure is a plus).
• Experience with database migrations to cloud, including transitioning from traditional RDBMS to open-source platforms.
• Expertise in AWS RDS/Aurora High Availability and Cluster configurations.
• Proficiency in SQL performance tuning and optimization.
• Strong experience in backup and restore operations, both on-prem and cloud.
• Demonstrated experience in DR strategy planning and execution.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, including weekends and holidays.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing databases in Agile project environments.
• Background in Oracle patching, cloning, and upgrade activities.
• Prior exposure to large-scale enterprise systems and customer-facing applications.
• Advanced skills in SQL, PL/SQL, and managing DB objects (procedures, views, indexes, etc.).
• Excellent documentation, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Shell, PowerShell, or Python.
• Experience with Oracle ERP database environments.
• Hands-on expertise in AWS DB solutions and familiarity with Azure DB services.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools like Ansible, CloudFormation, GitHub, or Lambda.
• Exposure to cross-functional IT areas, including InfoSec, networking, and OS-level support (Linux/Windows).
• Familiarity with encryption technologies and database protection practices.
• Experience with backup solutions like Commvault, AWS Backup, and Snapshots.
• Working knowledge of PGAdmin, MySQL Workbench, and similar DB tools.
• Flexibility to work rotational shifts and provide weekend support when required.

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