Oracle Database Administrator

PAYE Agency worker contract (Inside IR35) - £575 per day

Hybrid – Sheffield

Responsible for the design build and day to day support of the Oracle databases. These databases are each 100TB in size(and growing) , hold over 13 Billion rows of data each and together process circa 1 billion SQL statements per day. As part of a DevOps team you will work closely with the application and infrastructure POD SME’s to ensure these critical services function to the required standards. Maintain and improve SLA’s and ensure compliance to bank policies at all times. Actively participate to achieve organization objectives for efficiencies, innovations, and quality delivery.

Perform pro-active analysis on day-to-day work, identify areas for automation, report and follow up on process or technical gaps, reduce repeat or false incidents, and standardise tasks/processes. Support is required 24 hrs x 7 days in week x 365 days from office or on call depending on business needs (usually 1 week in 4 on-call) . Required to work on weekends (usually 1 in 4) often at short notice. Resource will get compensatory time- off for as per HR guidelines.

Essential Experience

• Must have strong experience of Oracle (v19c) RDBMS, RAC and Dataguard on a LINUX platform
• Perform Database software installation, upgrades and apply relevant patches
• Perform Database migrations – intra platform or inter platforms
• Build and Deploy/Implement Solutions. Perform Capacity Planning and DR Planning.
• Troubleshooting and fixing incidents
• Creating / altering / dropping tablespaces o Clone one environment from another
• Database backup / restore
• Data Archival activities
• Assist the development community with the resolution of miscellaneous queries and problems
• Database space management
• Implementing releases / service requests
• Server monitoring including health checks at server level and database level
• Keeping the systems up and running cleanly
• Timely escalation of issues to Team Lead
• Performance and Tuning of database
• Scripting Skills
• Customer Service and Problem Resolution
• Actively participate in crisis calls taking the lead from an Oracle DB perspective
• Participate in identifying problem situations and resolve to give maximum customer satisfaction

Essential Skills

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills..
• Strong teamworking skills including working with remote teams
• Must be flexible in a dynamic and demanding business environment (high rate of change in business).
• Demonstrate role model behaviours of “can do” attitude, positive motivation.
• Ability to work with development teams, both on a horizontal basis (front office to front office) as well as on a vertical basis (front to back office).
• Ability to manage relationships with various stakeholders.
• Ability to work on complex parallel projects.
• Demonstrate role model behaviours of “can do” attitude, positive motivation.
• Excellent communication skills – both oral and written.
• Efficient time management