Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid)

Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid)

Description:

This post is for the recruitment of a ''Senior Oracle Database Administrator" based at County Hall, Preston, PR1 8XJ.

• Pay Rate: £22.51/per hour via Umbrella.
• 37 hours per week.
• Initial 6 month contract (with chance of extension).

Duties:

We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform.

You will have detailed knowledge of managing, monitoring and maintaining databases within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, patching and upgrades as well as backup and recovery, cloning and maximum availability. Over and above you will have experience of:

• Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites
• Implementing robust OCI database security measures
• Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI
• Supporting experienced in-house DBAs in the delivery of ongoing workloads

Duties:

• Contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and LCC through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines.
• Provide Oracle database administration expertise.
• Software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate.
• Security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform.

Requirements:

Must have experience of: Oracle estate (databases, Weblogic, forms, reports) into the Oracle Cloud (also known as Oracle OCI).

This role is for candidates who have proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI, effective communication and collaboration skills as well as experience in OCI database security, performance tuning and monitoring.