# Rakesh Kumar

Rakesh Kumar is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Oracle Database Administrator at RingCentral India Pvt Ltd, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@rakeshkumar18

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Senior Oracle Database Administrator at RingCentral India who migrated 40+ databases to AWS, cutting costs by 30%.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 4350k-6000k INR |
| Job categories | Oracle Database Administrator, Database Administrator |
| Skills | Oracle Database Administration, Oracle RAC, Dataguard, ASM, Oracle GoldenGate, Qlik Replicate, Database Migration, Database Performance Tuning, Database Security, Oracle RMAN, Disaster Recovery, AWS, Amazon RDS, EC2, Amazon Redshift |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/rakeshroam |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm open to remote, hybrid, and global relocation opportunities, and available for on-call and 24/7 production support.
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## About

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At RingCentral India Pvt Ltd, I led the migration of 40+ mission-critical databases from on-premises data centers to AWS EC2 and RDS, cutting infrastructure costs by 30%. I also deployed GoldenGate 19c for near-real-time replication and improved batch job completion times by 35% through performance tuning.

At NextGen Healthcare India Pvt Ltd, I delivered 20+ Qlik Replicate CDC tasks across Oracle, AWS Redshift, and S3, reducing data latency from hours to under five minutes. I also administered Oracle databases and backups, and configured Active Data Guard.

At Collabera, for Intuit India Product Development Centre, I planned and executed zero-downtime migrations of 25+ databases from Oracle 11g to 19c using GoldenGate. I also implemented TDE across RAC and Data Guard environments and contributed to RAC and Active Data Guard build activities.

Earlier, at Oracle India Pvt Ltd and Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, I worked on Oracle monitoring, patching, migrations, backup and recovery, and Data Guard. I hold Oracle Database 12c Administrator, OCI Architect Associate, AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, and ITIL v2 Foundation certifications.
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## Experience

### Senior Oracle Database Administrator (current)

RingCentral India Pvt Ltd. Dec 2021 - Present

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Led migration of 40+ mission-critical databases from on-premises data centers to AWS EC2 and RDS, cutting infrastructure costs by 30%. Deployed Oracle GoldenGate 19c for near-real-time replication and drove performance tuning initiatives using AWR/ASH reports and SQL Tuning Advisor.
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Skills: Oracle, AWS, Goldengate, AWR, ASH, Tuning-Advisor, OEM-13c, Zabbix, MongoDB, Unified-Auditing, PCI-DSS, RBI

### Staff Engineer

NextGen Healthcare India Pvt Ltd. Nov 2019 - Dec 2021

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Deployed and administered Qlik Replicate for Oracle-to-PostgreSQL replication into AWS Redshift. Designed and delivered 20+ Qlik Replicate CDC tasks, reducing data latency from hours to under 5 minutes.
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Skills: Qlik-Replicate, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS-RedShift, Datadog, SumoLogic, OEM-13c, Rubrik, Dataguard, DG-Broker, Oracle-Upgrade

### Senior Database Analyst

[Collabera](https://himalayas.app/companies/collabera). Mar 2018 - Nov 2019

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Architected and deployed cloud infrastructure spanning VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, ASG, EBS, AWS RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and CloudTrail. Secured Oracle database communications with TLS 1.2 and deployed GoldenGate 12c and Veridata.
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Skills: AWS, Oracle, Goldengate, Veridata, TDE, RAC, Dataguard, OEM-13c, TLS, CloudFormation, IAM, Route-53, Cloudwatch, Amazon-Cloudfront, CloudTrail

### IT Consultant, Enterprise Operations

Oracle India Pvt Ltd. Aug 2015 - Feb 2018

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Customized EM12c/13c monitoring, including custom metric alerts, application health checks, and log file monitoring. Patched Oracle Database and Grid binaries using OPatch and managed Physical and Active Standby databases within a Maximum Availability Architecture.
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Skills: Oracle-Enterprise-Manager-(OEM), OPatch, Dataguard, Oracle-RMAN, Transportable-Tablespaces, Oracle-Database

### Oracle Database Administrator

[Accenture Services Pvt Ltd](https://himalayas.app/companies/accenture). Feb 2013 - Aug 2015

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Maintained Production, Pre-Prod, Standby, System Test, and Dev database instances, proactively monitoring performance via OEM 12c and TOAD. Deployed and configured Oracle 10g/11g instances on Solaris and Linux environments.
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Skills: Oracle, Oracle-12C, Toad, Dataguard, Oracle-RMAN, Explain-Plan, AWR, Solaris, Linux

## Education

### Pune University

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science. 2007 - 2010

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Pursued Master of Computer Applications with a focus on Computer Science.
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## Tech stack

- Amazon Redshift
- AWS IAM
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon S3
- Amazon CloudFront
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Amazon Route 53
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CloudTrail
- Zabbix
- Linux
- Datadog
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon EBS
- Rubrik
- AWS

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