Oracle Platform Administrator IV

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 485746
Address: USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street
Store Code: Infrastructure - Hosting (5118688)
Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.
Primary Purpose
The Oracle Platform Administrator IV is a senior practitioner who leads complex platform changes, optimizes performance, and advances automation to our Oracle database systems. The role partners with engineering and product teams to sustain high availability and consistent service quality.
Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations are Salisbury, NC & Quincy, MA.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead cluster upgrades, node pool changes, ingress/egress updates, and policy rollouts.
• Optimize resource utilization and platform reliability via tuning, quotas, and autoscaling.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and compliance checks with IaC and GitOps.
• Implement secrets management, RBAC, and image/security controls aligned to enterprise standards.
• Resolve advanced incidents and mentor junior teammates on troubleshooting and RCAs.
• Maintain high quality documentation, diagrams, SOPs, and CMDB accuracy.
• Monitor SLOs/SLIs, capacity, and health dashboards; recommend corrective actions.
• Support lifecycle planning (upgrades, deprecation, refresh) and multi tenant governance.
• Configure and deliver end-to-end support for database servers and data services running on AIX, Linux, Windows, VMware platform and Cloud for product development teams.
• Conducts SQL reviews to optimize application performance and efficiency.
• Coaches and mentors' teams on the efficient use of SQL and database services.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent years of work experience.
• 5+ years of experience administering container or shared enterprise platforms.
• 5+ years of Database Oracle Engineering/DBA experience.
• Experience supporting 24/7 databases. Retail industry background is a plus.
• Extensive experience in RMAN, HADR, Data Guard, and Data-Domain or Rubrik.
• Experience as an Oracle database analyst, engineer, or architect.
• Experience with development and design in the database space.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, maintaining, and optimizing Oracle database instances, objects, software, and related components.
• Extensive knowledge in creating and maintaining well performing physical database structures.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes/OpenShift (networking, storage classes, controllers), and GitOps/IaC.
• Strong skills in observability, incident response, and change controls.
• Effective communication, incident leadership, and mentoring capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications (CKA/CKAD/OpenShift) and experience with service mesh or API gateways.
• Certification in Oracle, Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps
• Experience with Backup and Recovery tools - Rubrik or Cohesity or TSM.
• Experience with windows scripts, programing languages, or Unix shell scripts.
• Experience in supporting vendors delivered software products.

• Experience with Datadog & general systems monitoring tools for databases and data services.

ME/NC/PA/SC Salary Range: $92,640 - $138,960
IL/MA/MD/NY Salary Range: $106,480- $159,720
All ADUSA job offers take multiple factors into consideration including, but not limited to salary range, internal equity, a candidate's qualifications, geographic region, job-related knowledge and skills.
This position is eligible for an incentive bonus based on company performance as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent.
Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.
Our associates are the heartbeat of our organization. We are committed to offering a welcoming work environment where all associates can succeed and thrive. Guided by our values of courage, care, teamwork, integrity (and even a little humor), we are dedicated to being a great place to work.
We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.