Oracle Database Engineer - up to £90,000 + Bonus - Hybrid

Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA)
Salary: Up to £90,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Location: Central London - Hybrid (3 days a week onsite)
Hours: 40 hours per week - Full time
Type: Permanent

We have partnered with a globally established organisation to hire an experienced Oracle Database Engineer for their database and platform engineering team. This is a hands-on position covering Oracle administration, automation and performance engineering across large-scale Exadata and cloud environments, including Autonomous Exadata Cloud@Customer.

The Oracle Database Engineer role suits an Oracle professional who wants to move beyond routine administration into platform engineering: building automation that removes manual overhead, tuning at scale, and owning multi-tenant database architecture across mission-critical systems.

About the role - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):

• Build automation tooling and platform solutions using Ansible and scripting to reduce manual work across the database estate
• Administer and tune Oracle RAC (11gR2-19c) and Clusterware, including build, troubleshooting and ongoing optimisation
• Own performance tuning at SQL, instance and system level across production environments
• Design and manage backup and recovery using RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump and established migration methodologies
• Administer Oracle ASM and Data Guard to support high availability and disaster recovery
• Manage multi-tenant architecture, including PDB and CDB design and administration
• Provide L3 support across Oracle Database and Exadata Cloud environments, including root cause analysis and permanent fixes rather than workarounds
• Advise application teams on database performance, architecture and product selection
• Contribute to wider platform resilience and performance initiatives

About you - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):

• Strong Oracle DBA experience across 12c, 18c, 19c and 23ai, including installation, configuration and full lifecycle management
• Solid grounding in Exadata Infrastructure, ideally including Autonomous Exadata Cloud @ Customer (ExaCC)
• Hands-on experience with Oracle RAC and Clusterware (CRS): build, administration, troubleshooting and tuning
• Working knowledge of PDB/CDB multi-tenant architecture
• Strong automation and scripting ability: Ansible playbooks plus Bash/KSH or Python
• Proven Oracle performance tuning experience at SQL, instance and system level
• Solid backup and recovery experience: RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump, and migration work
• Experience administering Oracle ASM and Data Guard for HA/DR

Desirable - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):

• Oracle Certified Master (OCM)
• Oracle APEX experience
• Java development knowledge
• Git or Stash version control
• Understanding of server architecture, enterprise storage, networking and firewall concepts
• Familiarity with ITIL and formal service management processes

If you are interested in the Oracle Database Engineer position, please applyin the immediate instance.