Senior Oracle DBA
Role: Senior Oracle DBA
Contracting Authority: Government Client
Contract Length: Till March 2027
Location: Nationwide - Blackpool or Newcastle (3x a week in the office)
IR35: Inside IR35
Pay Rate: £600 - £700 per day Umbrella
Security Clearance: BPSS Basic
Job Responsibilities:
As a Senior Oracle DBA, you will be an expert in your field, skilled in multiple disciplines, a role model in Infrastructure operations and have proven experience in the design, development and support of infrastructure services
Your roles and responsibilities would include:
Leading Infrastructure Services/Solutions ensuring they are aligned to achieve IT and Departmental strategy and delivered aligned to departmental and user needs, deliver value for money and are technically stable
Be tasked to deliver valuable pieces of work to advance Data Platforms product offerings in line with our Vision, Mission Statement and Business Plan
Work with and maintain operational relationships with suppliers ensuring services and products are delivered aligned to industry best practice, regulatory and contractual requirements
Act as a major incident manager and escalation point for all service-related incidents
Responsibility of the leading a team of Senior Engineers, providing expert advice or dealing with complex problems and providing specialist service/solution technical support
Provide updates for the risk register for individual technical area, ensuring appropriate management and mitigation plans and actions are implemented
Work closely with other senior leaders and teams, sharing information, providing advice and support around technical choices and implementation approach.
Essential:
- Oracle Database technologies (RAC, Dataguard, RMAN Backup and Recovery) and Public Cloud Technologies (particularly OCI and AWS)
- Writing Infrastructure as Code and debugging Terraform and Ansible
- Managing and maintaining Security procedures including:
- Implementing network segregation in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS)
- Incorporating transport encryption to protect data in transit (preferably Oracle)
- Understanding implementation of database encryption options (preferably Oracle)
- Conducting Migration Testing (preferably through Oracle and AWS) and implementing secure authentication with OIDC for GitLab runners
- Maintaining and updating repositories with Git
Oracle skills
Oracle RDBMS 11.2-23ai experience of supporting Oracle RAC including ASM, AFD, HANFS, TAF. Additional experience of multitenant, TDE and TLS desirable.
Specifically in a Linux/Aix OS environment
RMAN Backup and recovery
OEM, OCI's Db Management
Patching and Upgrade experience
Track record of supporting highly available mission critical databases
Dataguard setup and configuration
Data migration tooling Datapump, Golden Gate, ZDM
Exadata and Base Database configuration experience in OCI