R&D Service Engineer

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R&D Service Engineer

Join our global Level 3 (L3) Technical Support organization and serve as a key database expert, helping resolve complex, business-critical issues in large-scale healthcare production environments.

Your role:

• Provide advanced Oracle database support for critical customer escalations and complex production incidents, acting as the highest level of database expertise within Support.
• Troubleshoot database performance, availability, and configuration issues using tools such as Automatic Workload Repository (AWR), Active Session History (ASH), SQL traces, execution plans, and database performance statistics.
• Lead deep root cause analysis for recurring and high-impact database incidents, partnering closely with Research & Development (R&D), Product, infrastructure, and engineering teams to drive resolution.
• Support major customer activities including upgrades, migrations, failovers, go-lives, and other business-critical events while participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Contribute to long-term support excellence by developing troubleshooting tools, documenting best practices, and mentoring other L3 engineers.

You’re the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired strong 7-10 yrs hands-on experience with Oracle Enterprise Database: Oracle 19c and older Oracle versions
• Your skills include SQL and PL/SQL development, database performance tuning, and advanced troubleshooting using AWR, ASH, SQL Trace, execution plans, and Oracle dynamic performance views.
• You have a strong understanding of database architecture, including sessions, locking, memory management, storage, connectivity, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure  on which Oracle is installed and relying: Storage, Networking, Virtualization, Operating Systems
• You’re an analytical problem solver with experience handling critical production incidents, customer escalations, and cross-functional investigations spanning database, application, operating system, storage, and network layers.
• You’re comfortable working independently, making technical decisions under pressure, collaborating across global teams, and participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Preferred: Experience with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Data Guard, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, Windows Server environments, healthcare applications, high-availability infrastructure, or automation using PowerShell, SQL, or Python

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

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