Oracle Database Administrator at City of New York
New York City, NY
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Jul 28, 2026
New York City, NY
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on Oracle DBA role supporting mission-critical financial applications for the City of New York's Financial Systems division. The position covers the full DBA lifecycle — administration, performance tuning, RMAN backup/recovery, shell scripting, capacity planning, and disaster recovery — across Oracle 19c RAC environments on AIX/Linux, with secondary responsibility for Microsoft SQL Server. The role is hybrid (on-site + remote) and includes participation in a 24×7 on-call rotation.
Senior level · 4+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $124,223 (middle half $89,291–$165,961).
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The posting's formal civil-service qualification standard (IT Infrastructure Engineer – 95714) requires a baccalaureate degree plus 4 years of relevant experience, OR a baccalaureate degree plus 8 years, OR an equivalent combination — so no degree is strictly mandatory if equivalent experience is accepted; the degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
No compensation figures are published in the posting.
The role is described as hybrid (on-site + remote per agency policy), not fully remote.
The posting explicitly states this is not a supervisory or team-lead role, which is reflected in the seniority assessment.
Broadcom d-Series (job scheduling) is listed under required technical experience but framed as 'preferably' — treated as preferred.
AIX 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are listed as preferred platform versions; the underlying Unix/Linux shell scripting and AIX/Linux platform experience are treated as hard requirements given their prominence throughout the responsibilities and required experience sections.
The 'Preferred Skills' section contains only soft skills and general abilities — no additional named technologies were listed there.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Unix/Linux shell scripting.
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