Senior Oracle Apps DBA

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual's passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We're a technology company that leads with our humanity-driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

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Why Ciena:

• We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.
• We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.
• We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and also offer a variety of paid family leave programs.
• We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.
• We know that financial security is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU's (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.
• We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable. We offer unlimited paid time off!
• Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

How You Will Contribute:

Reporting to Senior Manager - IT Applications, Ciena's Oracle OCI team is looking for an experienced and high performing Individual with experience to lead a team. This senior resource plays a critical role in designing automation and support of the Oracle public cloud. Knowledge of other clouds services such as AWS or Azure is required as well. The candidate will help with the Ciena's strategic direction in selecting information technology architecture and techniques to design and implement complex solutions and automation to meet the business needs in the public cloud. The IT lead will perform the necessary leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks related to the support of our OCI solution. The IT lead will set the direction for the OCI team as well as work with Security, networking and the governance team to implement new solutions. We are looking for an experienced hands-on individual to make intuitive high-level decisions to improve the business experience. You will see the big picture and create architectural approaches for automation design and implementation. You will be responsible for the technical direction of projects, software structure and working with the Ciena security team to any new OCI services and processes meet Ciena security guidelines.

• Manage / Improve tools, responsible for maintaining and upgrading tools and establishing automation. This may include integrating tools with other development technology.
• Owning the ongoing design, implementation, and management of the OCI environment, testing and implementation of new services as they become available in the OCI environment.
• The building, upgrading, and maintaining the performance of the API and CLI layer between tools and the OCI console Documenting and creating playbooks for administrative/support actions to be used by Production Support.
• Developing/growing a team of resources to create automation to manage the OCI platform and own platform operations.
• Collaborating with external teams within the company to solve complex problems.
• Takes on-call rotation involves work outside of normal hours.

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• Initiative - you're a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines.
• A customer first mentality - what's important to the customer is also important to you.
• Agility - you are readily able to manage competing and ever-changing priorities and maintain a balanced and methodical approach to problem solving.

• Communication expertise - you possess the ability to tailor your message and ideas to the audience to ensure understanding and consensus.
• The flexibility towork independentlyand aspart of a broader team - you thrive in a team environment, are comfortable working independently, and know how to get things done in a virtual environment.
• Relationship builder - with a proven ability to influence, you're able to quickly develop trusted connections and get work done through others.
• A commitment to innovation - you keep abreast of competitive developments and are always keen to formulate new ideas and problem solve.

The Must Haves:

• Excellent knowledge of core Oracle databases required (up through 19c).
• Excellent knowledge of Oracle EBS database administration through 12.2.4 required, including concurrent processing, system administration, start up and shut down, RAC, OEM in the EBS space, support of printing including XML, managing of schema statistics, identification of poorly performing queries, performance tuning, RAC refreshes.
• Excellent knowledge of Data Guard and DR concepts.
• Knowledge of Oracle EBS system administration to monitor concurrent requests and collect information on job logs.
• Proficient knowledge to manage and monitor FMW, Weblogic Server, SOA Suite, Golden Gate, Demantra and Vertex.
• Comfort with Linux and windows - able to login to various environments, start/stop/monitor services in these environments - determine status or issues in these environments.
• Unix shell scripting
• Excellent communication skills

Assets:

• OCI Certification

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Compensation and Benefits

The annual pay range for this position in US is 91,800 - 146,600 USD

The annual pay range for this position in Canada is 78,800 - 126,000 USD

Pay ranges at Ciena are designed to accommodate variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and locations, reflecting our diverse products, industries, and lines of business. Please note that the pay range information provided in this posting pertains specifically to the primary location, which is the top location listed in case multiple locations are available.

Non-Sales employees may be eligible for a discretionary incentive bonus, while Sales employees may be eligible for a sales commission. In addition to competitive compensation, Ciena offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, participation in 401(K) (USA) & DCPP (Canada) with company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time. We also comply with all applicable laws regarding Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.