Database Administrator

Company Description

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $13+ billion invested in long-term assets.

Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from some 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2025 were $343bn.

For more information: vitol.com

Job Description

Responsible for the deployment of new releases of in-house CTRM and Analytics applications. Will be responsible for developing the Database environment with respect to data replication/synchronization solutions, hardware environment, databases schema definition, and design to ensure high availability, stability, and reliability of the main CTRM and analytics applications used within Vitol Group worldwide.

Ensure deployment and support of Oracle middleware products and Unix Database environment (Servers and Storages), Oracle Unix Servers / Storage, OS Solaris 11, and NetApp Storage. Monitor databases and proprietary applications, including Oracle 18c / 19c / 21c; work with Data Guard, Pdb-Cdb, RMAN, and performances tools. Perform maintenance (i.e. upgrade, patching, installation) on software and hardware.

Manage and perform ad hoc projects. Support and interact in a worldwide context with infrastructure, security, network, and application teams. Resolve requests from users.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and 5 years of experience as an Oracle database administrator.

5 years of experience to include

• In the course of database administration, perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting;
• Using SQL and PL/SQL to troubleshoot issues, review code design, and tune SQL queries;
• Managing database security, user access, and database objects, and supporting day-to-day production database operations.

3 years of experience to include

• Supporting Oracle enterprise products, including Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Recovery Manager (RMAN), and multitenant architecture (PDB/CDB) in Oracle
• 18c, 19c, and 21c environments;
• Supporting Linux and Unix-based Oracle hosting environments in standalone, clustered, and high-availability configurations, including server administration, storage, patching, and performance tuning;
• Deploying and supporting Oracle databases and Oracle middleware products, including Oracle Forms and Reports Application Server;
• Supporting and administering PostgreSQL, MySQL or other similar relational database environments;
• Supporting HPE infrastructure;
• Configuring and supporting Oracle Unified Directory;
• Monitoring and managing databases and Unix infrastructure in a worldwide environment; and
• Supporting infrastructure, security, network, and application teams in a global environment.

Additional Information

Worksite: 3425 West Alabama Street, Houston, TX, 77027; 40 hours/week;

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.