The single largest DBA responsibility is database recovery.
Installing and configuring the Oracle Soft.
Setting up Oracle Net,getting the listener going,configuring the shared server,enabling connection pooling,and so on.
Tuning at the database instance level and figuring out what the optimum PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET shoud be is typically the job of the DBA.
Allocating space and managing the files is the job for the DBA.