Omkaar C. Naik

About Omkaar C. Naik

Seasoned database professional with over 10 years of experience in the banking industry and the PCI-DSS regulatory domain. Proven track record in optimizing performance, securing data, and designing scalable, highly available, and resilient database solutions. Expert in architecting and maintaining robust database systems, implementing effective backup and disaster recovery strategies, and ensuring data integrity across complex, mission-critical environments. Proficient in query optimization, performance tuning, and managing large-scale data migrations to maximize system efficiency. Well-versed in industry best practices, compliance standards, and automation tools to enhance operational excellence and maintain regulatory adherence. Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams, supporting application development, deployment, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Experience

1. Lead Oracle Database Administrator

   Wipro

   Feb 2023 — Present · SA

   GULF INTERNATIONAL BANK• Part of a team providing end-to-end database support for mission-critical systems, including 24/7 on-call L3/L4 support for Oracle, Exadata, OCI, ExaCC, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases.• Providing on-call support during bank enterprise deployments and end-of-day (EOD) jobs.• Collaborating with cross-functional teams for implementation of new projects.• Performed migration projects from on-prem to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and EXACC and post-migration optimizations.• Integrating database platforms with cloud management systems and orchestration tools to enable automated deployment, scaling, and policy enforcement.• Led the implementation and automation of monitoring reports using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM).• Secure business critical databases using various security tools such as DB Vault, TDE, Data Redaction,and IPsec security, DB scope and ASM scope security to meet the security compliance.• Conduct performance tuning and optimization activities to enhance the efficiency and responsiveness of mission critical applications.• Designed and implemented database disaster recovery solution that reduced the overall RTO.• Performed multiple projects that involves setting up new RAC clusters and upgrading the existing systems on on-prem and OCI/ExaCC. Ensuring the database software is up-to-date with lattest patchsets.• Managing engineered systems - M7 supperclusters, exadata and ZFS storage ZS7-2 appliances.• Worked extensively on Exadata features such as Smart Scan, HCC,Flash Cache, Storage Index, IORM and Exadata components i.e. Compute Nodes, Cell servers, InfiniBand Switches, GI, PDUs, ILOMS.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology

  2011 — 2014