The right candidate must have extensive demonstrable experience as an Oracle DBA administering large highly available, multi-terabyte production databases, strong performance tuning skills in SQL and PL/SQL and full operational and lifecycle support skills (including RMAN backup & recovery, full stack patching, and Linux administration skills). Familiarity with Exadata & RAC would be preferable, though not essential. Practical knowledge and experience of deploying and managing Oracle database technology within cloud offerings (ideally OCI and/or Azure) using automation tooling would be highly beneficial.
This role is not a dedicated support role and will consist of a mix of Support and project specific work, as required by the business. Whilst it will be predominantly remote, the role will require 1 - 2 days on-site in Edinburgh every week / fortnight.
Responsibilities:
*Working with other team members and stakeholders to support day-to-day administration requirements.
*Play a key role in their journey to the cloud (OCI, Azure), assisting with research, test & deployment activities.
*Maintaining security compliance, such as key patching activities.
*Working with team members and business stakeholders on new project on-boarding.
*Participating in an on-call rota and out of hours work as required.
Essential Skills include:
*Extensive experience as an Oracle DBA with Oracle 12c, 18c and 19c.
*Experience of building & supporting Dataguard, RMAN, OEM, and MAA architectures.
*SQL and PL/SQL experience.
*Strong patching experience.
*Linux (OEL, Redhat) Administration & shell scripting.
Desirable Skills include:
*Experience of Exadata, RAC, ZFS.
*Experience of Delphix, Informatica, Qlik or Denodo would be useful.
*Knowledge and experience of using/developing with Oracle Application Express.
*Git and Azure DevOps release pipelines.
*Database DevOps tooling.
*Experience of Oracle in the Cloud. (OCI, Azure, AWS etc.)
Whilst it will be predominantly remote, the role will require 1 - 2 days on-site in Edinburgh every week / fortnight as things open up.
Candidates need to engage via an FCSA accredited Umbrella Company.
If interested, please Apply Immediately!
