Database Administrator II

🕒 April 20

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $88.9k - $160.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Media

Akamai Technologies is a global edge platform and cloud services company that delivers content delivery, edge computing, and security solutions. The company operates one of the world’s largest distributed networks to accelerate and protect web, media, and application traffic, offering products for content delivery, DDoS protection, API and app security, bot management, edge compute (serverless/edge functions), and AI inference at the edge. Akamai also provides enterprise-focused security services (zero trust, identity and access management, secure internet access) and cloud/AI infrastructure tools, and has recently expanded capabilities through acquisitions (for example LayerX) to add browser-based AI usage control.

📋 Description

• Analyze, design, implement and operate mission-critical database services • Support day-to-day operations with large-scale, highly available, reliable, high-performing transactional (OLTP) databases hosted in geo-distributed cloud-based datacenters • Provide Oracle expertise with performing database operations with minimum (or zero) downtime • Be a liaison for database-related problems between operations, architecture, development, and QA groups • Automate routine database operations using scripting or cloud automation tools • Mentor junior DBAs • Participate in architecture and incident review boards

🎯 Requirements

• 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field • 5+ years of Oracle experience with expertise in supporting highly available transactional systems (4-9s) • Advanced knowledge of Oracle troubleshooting and performance tuning for PL/SQL and the database in a Cloud • 5 years of experience as Oracle DBA with routine automation experience • 5 years of outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including experience working with culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams • Ability to communicate effectively with Program Management, InfoSec, Engineering, QA, and Operations personnel • Deep knowledge of Cloud DevOps principles • Required to undergo or possess and maintain a successfully adjudicated USG Tier 3 background investigation

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401K savings plan • Company holidays • Vacation (in the form of PTO) • Sick time • Family friendly benefits including parental leave • Employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness