Oracle Engineer

Role Title: Oracle Engineer

Duration: 6 Months

Location: Sheffield 2 days a week

Rate: £510 - Umbrella only

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role purpose / summary

An experienced technical specialist to work in the Oracle Product Engineering team. A strong understanding of Oracle database is essential. The team is involved in producing product and platform support and automation rather than day to day administration, requiring a range of complementary skills. A track record of flexibility to learn and understand how it is integrated with other technologies and leverage support from other members of the team is essential to succeed.

Key Skills/ requirement

Requirements:
- Expert in Oracle database, including RAC, Dataguard, Exadata
- Knowledge of API integration and frameworks
- Shell scripting, Python, Ansible, CICD Pipelines, GIT, Jenkins, Splunk
- Build and configuration of Oracle as PaaS, including database related automation.
- Linux competency - primarily RHEL, with some OEL
- An awareness of wider public cloud offerings to inform mindset.
- Understanding of High Availability setup, replication and DR Planning
- Effective communication and ability to work collaboratively across teams/regions/cultures.
- Understanding of agile team methodologies including Scrum, Kanban and using JIRA and Confluence.
- Experience of working for a large organisation where priorities can change quickly. Ideally a financial company subject to some associated regulatory responsibilities.
- Creating and maintaining documentation.

Preferred:
- Experience of Oracle on premises database cloud offering (Cloud@Customer).
- Experience in building applications on the public cloud.
- Other ideal API relevant technologies: K8, Docker, Hashi Vault, YAML, JSON, Postman, Nexus, Sonercube, Cucumber
- GoldenGate knowledge

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!