A leading Independent IT Infrastructure and Services Consultancy is looking for an experienced, Security Cleared (desirable) Third Line Oracle Database Administrator who will join our team supporting their major customers. The role will be based in their Nottingham office for a 3 month contact initially, to start in January.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience providing specialised DBA support across Oracle database platforms, excellent troubleshooting skills and demonstrate the ability to make key technical decisions independently, demonstrate excellent communication skills, both face to face and on the telephone, whilst also having the ability to assess and prioritise tasks without close supervision.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
As a 3rd Line Oracle DBA, you will be responsible for providing technical support for all in scope Oracle database environments in line with the organisation's established policies and procedures, including new installations and upgrades.
Support defining, implementing and managing our customers Oracle database environments in line with architectural standards.
Assist developers and other DBAs, including within the customer organisations, with developments, implementations, upgrades and ongoing maintenance of the database environments.
Customer engagement will be key, establish and maintain good relationships with the customer organisation, and the various service delivery teams
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Designing, developing and deploying of Oracle technologies on Windows, Unix, Linux and Virtual Platforms across development, test and production systems
Providing solutions and workarounds to incidents/problems
Working to SLAs and deadlines
Review of services and application delivery
Prioritising and managing several tasks at a single time
Establishing a good working relationship with wider teams and customers alike
Keeping up to date with advancements in technology
Working with a variety of customers to gain a detailed understanding of their requirements
Willingness to Travel (Infrequent)
Document writing / process creation
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Essential
UK based, SC cleared or eligible
Oracle 10g, 11g & 12c RDBMS running on one or more of Windows, Solaris, AIX or Linux
Extensive knowledge of the Oracle toolset
Good SQL & PL/SQL knowledge
Good knowledge of RMAN and cloning techniques
Understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery, including working experience of DataGuard, RAC and ClusterWare
Knowledge and experience of working on ASM
Knowledge and experience of Enterprise Manager
Experience of working in a controlled ITIL environment with good understanding of control processes and procedures
Knowledge of sizing, capacity planning and benchmarking, backup and recovery, performance tuning, proactive monitoring and alerting
Excellent decision making/problem solving skills
Strong leadership skills
Strong planning and organisational skills
Desirable
Database architecture, design and implementation
Shell scripting
Knowledge of Oracle 11i/12i e-Business Suite / Discoverer
Mentoring, coaching and training junior staff
Multi platform OS support and administration, including Windows, Solaris, HPUX, AIX & Linux
Knowledge of ITIL, ISO 20000 & ISO 27000
Understanding of patch and deployment methodologies
Virtualisation technologies (VMWare, XenServer and HyperV)
Cloud computing (Azure, AWS)
Any knowledge of other RDBMS technologies, including MS SQL Server, MySql and Sybase would be advantageous