Oracle Database Administrator
- Posted February 17, 2025
- £500 - £575 per day
- Remote working with some on site requirement for workshops in Glasgow or Newcastle.
- Contract
Oracle Database Administrator
Rate – £500 – £575 Inside IR35 (Total to umbrella)
Duration – 6 months
Location – Remote working (Some requirement into Glasgow or Newcastle for workshops)
A client of ours within the Financial Services space is looking for an experienced Oracle DBA consultant to join them on a 6 month initial contract with limited time on site in Glasgow or Newcastle (On site for workshops).
You would be required to:
- Provide effective and proactive database support & maintenance for many of the bank’s critical production services, which spans across multiple database technologies (predominately Oracle & SQL Server).
- Provide database administrative support and guidance in the shape of:
- Database lifecycle support (provisioning / deletion / patching / upgrading / migrating)
- Back-up and Recovery
- Monitoring and Alerting
- Change and Incident Management
- Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
- Tuning and Optimisation
- Disaster Recovery
- Collaborate with other teams and escalating where necessary to Lead Database Engineers to ensure operational issues are resolved within agreed SLAs.
Required skills:
- A strong understanding and experience of database administration (across Oracle and SQL Server)
- Ability to troubleshoot Production issues in an analytical manner and make recommendations to resolve issues and/or deliver enhancements.
- Experience of undertaking database builds, patching, migrations and upgrades.
- Experience of High Availability and Disaster Recovery Methods including setup, troubleshooting and support – Oracle RAC, Oracle Restart, ASM, Oracle Data Guard & SQL Server Always on High Availability.
- Database Performance Tuning and Optimisation skills.
- Experience of using Oracle Enterprise Manager.
- Oracle / Red Hat Linux, Windows, AIX, and Solaris Operating System experience.
- To display collaborative behaviours and excellent verbal / written communication skills.
- ITIL Service Management awareness (Incident, Change & Problem Management processes).
