DBA/Database Administrator - DV Cleared - CONTRACT

Senior Oracle Database Administrator/Database Engineer

Location: London preferable - Full time onsite - Alternatively, Warrington
Duration: Initial 12-month contract (long-term programme)
Clearance: DV Clearance required

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to join a specialist infrastructure management team supporting a highly secure government environment.

This role will provide technical ownership of a business-critical Oracle estate supporting applications of national importance. You will be responsible for maintaining, optimising and enhancing complex clustered Oracle environments while helping ensure the resilience, availability and performance of services delivered within a secure operational environment.

Working alongside infrastructure, platform and application teams, you'll play a key role in maintaining high availability, supporting ongoing infrastructure improvements and providing expert database administration across a complex enterprise estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure and administer Oracle Database environments

• Manage Oracle 12c Cluster Ready Services (CRS) and Oracle RAC environments

• Support Oracle Data Guard using Real Time Apply in Maximum Availability mode

• Administer Oracle Streams and Advanced Replication

• Monitor database health, availability and performance

• Carry out database tuning and optimisation

• Implement backup, recovery and disaster recovery solutions using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)

• Administer Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

• Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux database platforms

• Monitor database infrastructure using Nagios and TOAD

• Support Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL environments where required

• Work closely with infrastructure and application teams to troubleshoot complex production issues

• Contribute to database architecture, resilience and service improvements

• Interpret and work from Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) and data models

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Extensive Oracle Database Administration experience within enterprise environments

• Strong Oracle 12c administration skills

• Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters)

• Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS)

• Oracle Data Guard

• Oracle Streams/Advanced Replication

• Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

• Oracle SQL

• Performance tuning and optimisation

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration

• TOAD for Oracle

• Nagios monitoring

• Strong understanding of database backup, recovery and resilience

• Experience working from logical and physical data models including Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs)

Desirable Experience:

• Microsoft SQL Server administration

• PostgreSQL administration

• Experience supporting highly secure or government environments

• Migration of critical database platforms across data centres

• Supporting high-availability, mission-critical services

• Active DV Clearance

What's on Offer:

This is an opportunity to join a programme supporting infrastructure of genuine national importance, working within a highly skilled technical team responsible for the availability and resilience of critical government systems.

You'll work on complex Oracle clustered environments where reliability, performance and security are paramount, with the opportunity to contribute to long-term infrastructure improvements within a secure operational environment.