Oracle DBA - Glasgow (Glasgow City)

Excellent opportunity for Oracle DBA to be part of our Cloud Infrastructure & Security services practice. Cognizant Infrastructure Services – Provides IT infrastructure & Cloud services for clients across industry verticals, including both Consulting/Professional and Managed Services, across Enterprise Computing, Cloud services, Security Services, DevOps, Data Centres, End User Computing, Service Desk, Network Services and Environment Management Services.

Key Responsibilities :

• Supporting services through proactive identification of risk, swift resolution of live issues and proposing appropriate fixes/improvements for future
• Working closely with Technical Teams and Project Managers to ensure delivery of database solutions meet the organisation’s standards
• Collaborating with internal and external parties in order to provide excellent test environments
• Improving our processes through process automation, innovation and continuous improvement
• supporting Oracle databases (10g, 11g, 12c and 19), Enterprise level database estate
• Undertaking database patching and upgrades
• Oracle RMAN backup and Recovery
• Oracle Tuning and Optimisation

Key Skills and Experience :

• A strong understanding and experience in supporting Oracle databases (10g, 11g, 12c and 19)
• Experience supporting an Enterprise level database estate
• Experience of undertaking database patching and upgrades (ideally to 19)
• Knowledge and understanding of Grid Infrastructure
• ITIL Service Management awareness (Change & Problem Management processes)
• Oracle RMAN backup and Recovery experience
• Oracle Tuning and Optimisation skills
• Experience of working with SQL databases

Nice to Have :

• Oracle Linux, Linux, AIX, and Solaris Operating System experience

• familiarity with the Atlassian toolset especially Jira & Confluence

• Experience of virtualisation toolsets, such as Delphix

• Awareness of Flashback technologies

• Experience of working in an Agile Framework/delivery model