Senior Oracle Cloud DBA/Architect
Quick facts
- Pay
- 150,000 - 170,000 USD per year + 10% bonus
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- Chelmsford, MA
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Skills
- SQL
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Senior Oracle Cloud DBA/Architect
Location: Chelmsford, MA — Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week
Duration: Full-Time/Direct Hire role
Rate: 150 - 170k + 10% bonus
Sponsorship: H-1B sponsorship available
We’re seeking a Senior Oracle Cloud DBA/Architect for a hybrid opportunity in Chelmsford, MA, supporting Oracle ERP applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This position focuses on database availability, performance, security, backup, and recovery.
Take ownership of complex Oracle environments and help improve their reliability, scalability, and resilience. You’ll collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams on cloud operations, upgrades, disaster recovery, and performance improvements.
Duration: Full-Time/Direct Hire role
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience as an Oracle ERP Applications DBA.
- Minimum of 5 years of Oracle Cloud engineering experience managing OCI platforms.
- Experience completing at least two upgrade cycles, including improving processes to reduce cutover downtime.
- Strong understanding of OCI architecture, concurrent managers, workflows, and application infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle ERP application cloning, patching, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
- Knowledge of ODI, FAW/ADW, performance tuning, and SQL profiling.
- Experience with database configuration, monitoring, capacity planning, storage management, and access controls.
- Knowledge of Oracle Cloud ERP system administration.
- Unix shell scripting skills and experience with Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) and Oracle VM (OVM).
- Experience supporting custom code, code migrations, workflows, and concurrent requests.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across application teams, geographies, and time zones.
- Ability to work onsite in Chelmsford, MA, three days per week.
What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown
- Oracle ERP applications and databases.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including integrations and configurations.
- ODI, FAW/ADW, Unix shell scripting, ODA, and OVM.
- Technology allocation percentages were not provided.
Daily Responsibilities
- Maintain production uptime through database monitoring, maintenance, performance tuning, backup, and recovery.
- Manage OCI platform configurations and integrations to support healthy cloud operations.
- Support physical and application database requirements, including storage, networking, security, queries, users, and embedded SQL.
- Size database resources and manage capacity across large database and application environments.
- Perform database health checks, diagnose failures, and recommend production improvements.
- Plan and execute upgrades, quarterly releases, patches, and cloning across SaaS and OCI environments.
- Create and test backups, verify data integrity, and implement disaster recovery plans.
- Manage database access, roles, authorizations, audits, and technical security controls.
- Monitor memory, I/O distribution, database parameters, tablespaces, and storage utilization.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, security, and development teams on environment setup, migrations, integrations, and issue resolution.
- Respond to service outages and provide day-to-day operational status updates.
Visa sponsorship record: Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC
Sponsors actively| Fiscal year | H-1B LCAs | USCIS approvals | USCIS denials | PERM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 35 | 14 | 0 | — |
| FY2025 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 4 | 6 | 0 | — |
This exact kind of role (Database Administrators) isn't among the roles Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC sponsored most often.
Also filed: E-3 Australian × 1 — a good sign for Australian (E-3), Chilean and Singaporean (H-1B1) candidates.
Roles they sponsor most
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Full sponsorship history of Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC →
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Database Administrators (SOC 15-1242) — estimated from the job title.
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Computer Systems Analyst” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
This employer has filed before (E-3 Australian: 1). Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
- Green card (EB-2 / EB-3 via PERM)
Filed 1 PERM labor certification: they have a track record of sponsoring permanent residence.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Database Administrators · Massachusetts (state median of areas). Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $68,474 | ~15% |
| Level II | $88,962 | ~31% |
| Level III | $109,440 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $129,927 | ~61% |
The listing has no salary, so we can't place it on a wage level. Ask the employer which wage level they'd file at: Level III–IV registrations get 3–4 entries in the H-1B lottery.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.