Progress Database Administrator- Openedge DBA

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and support Progress OpenEdge databases across development, test, and production environments.
• Monitor database health, availability, capacity, and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database failures, outages, locking issues, crashes, and connectivity problems.
• Perform database performance tuning, including query, index, transaction, memory, and resource optimization.
• Manage backups, restores, disaster recovery, and data replication activities.
• Analyze database logs, alerts, and system metrics to identify root causes.
• Support Progress/OpenEdge upgrades, patching, migrations, and environment refreshes.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and development teams to resolve production issues.
• Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive action planning.
• Automate routine DBA activities using Scripting and maintain operational runbooks.
• Ensure database security, access controls, maintenance, and compliance requirements are followed.
• Provide on-call and production support as required.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong experience as a Progress OpenEdge DBA in production environments.
• Hands‑on expertise in Progress database architecture, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience handling database failures and high‑priority production incidents.
• Strong knowledge of Progress database performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience with database locks, transactions, indexes, storage, memory, and resource utilization.
• Expertise in backup, restore, disaster recovery, and replication processes.
• Good understanding of Progress ABL and SQL for application and query analysis.
• Experience working on Linux and/or Windows environments.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools and Scripting using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience working in an incident, change, and problem management environment.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting large‑scale or business‑critical Progress/OpenEdge applications.
• Knowledge of OpenEdge versions, upgrades, and high‑availability solutions.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring, ITIL processes, and 24x7 production support.

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