Job Summary

Oracle Database Engineering

L3 Engineer  |  JD ORA-L3  |  Positions 7

Experience 10-17 years  |  HCL  Deutsche Bank account

HCL band 3.1 or 3.2 subject to discussion and final role mapping.

Role purpose

Own Oracle platform engineering designs and complex remediation while remaining hands-on with code, configuration and production implementation. Establish safe, repeatable database lifecycle and recovery patterns.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• Design patching and upgrade approaches for assigned standalone, clustered or standby architectures, considering compatibility, service dependencies and recovery constraints.

• Develop reusable orchestration for inventory, health checks, patch sequencing and evidence collection, with explicit stop conditions and recovery paths.

• Diagnose complex performance, availability and replication failures across database, OS, storage and application layers and implement the corrective changes.

• Define and validate database recovery and HA test scenarios against agreed recovery objectives, working with platform and application owners.

• Review automation code, SQL and technical designs; mentor engineers and resolve technical blockers without handing implementation ownership away.

• Lead technical production readiness and major problem resolution, working with Oracle support where needed and maintaining audit-ready implementation evidence.

Skill Requirements

Essential skills and experience

• 10-17 years of relevant experience with demonstrated ownership of Oracle platform designs and difficult production changes.

• Deep Oracle internals, SQL tuning, patch/upgrade engineering and HA/recovery expertise in the assigned architecture.

• Strong scripting and automation design, including Git workflows, tests, error handling, secrets management and integration with approved pipelines.

• Ability to assess tradeoffs, lead cross-platform root-cause analysis and personally implement and validate complex remediation.

Tools and technology expertise

• Core platform: Oracle Database, SQL*Plus or SQLcl, SQL, RMAN and Oracle Linux or RHEL. Relevant database release experience is required; the client version is confirmed separately.

• Lifecycle and diagnosis: OPatch, datapatch, SQL execution plans and Oracle diagnostic views. Use AWR/ASH only where the required licensing and access are available.

• Automation: Python or Bash/Shell, Git and reviewed scripts. RAC, Grid Infrastructure, ASM and Data Guard apply to vacancies covering those architectures.

Preferred expertise

• Exadata specialist Experience in RAC, ASM, Dataguard, Infiniband switch, storage cell

 • Experience in Exadata health check, migration, resource management and patching/upgrade

 • Expertise in database performance tuning Expertise in Backup and recovery Basic

• Experience in Clusterware (GRID Infrastructure) - CRS management and configuration Skilled in Oracle ASM and Dataguard administration

 • Expertise in backup and recovery and migration using RMAN, datapump and export/import.

 • Expert knowledge of database scripting and Experience in Automation (Python 2.7 / 3.x Development, Ansible Playbook Development)

 • Experience in a large corporate environment Competent in Change/Release Management (ITIL based – preferably ITIL Foundation Certified) and Knowledge of ITIL framework 

• Experience with Oracle@OCI and Oracle Cloud@Customer

• Ansible; Jenkins or GitHub Actions; Exadata or ExaCC; Oracle fleet patching tools where deployed.

Other Requirements