Oracle DBA - Remote - 5 months+
Oracle DBA - Remote - 5 months+/RATE: £566 per day inside IR35
One of our Blue Chip Clients is urgently looking for an Oracle DBA.
Please find some details below:
Clearance required: Ministry of Justice SC must be obtainable.
Location: Remote - Occasional travel may be required for workshops or meetings, but unlikely to be any regular travel.
Job Description:
We are looking for Senior Oracle Database Administrators to join the DBA team in the Legal Aid Agency.
We are on a mission to modernise, maintain and make better digital services for the Legal Aid Agency. Lead DBAs will be supported by and work under the guidance of the Principal DBA. They will support and guide Senior DBAs.
We are seeking a DBA who has a desire to drive the modernisation of our teams to true DevOps. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, placing emphasis on automation of operational tasks, better monitoring and alerting, whilst your traditional operations experience will help ensure that the underlying databases are stable, secure and support change at the speed of business.
Our Oracle databases are hosted in AWS. These databases underpin a number of applications built with several Oracle products (mainly Oracle E-business Suite, SOA, Portal, IAM, Weblogic, OHS, APEX).
Essential Skills/Experience
Expert experience working with AWS cloud, core AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda and S3
Expert experience of setting up and maintaining continuous delivery and deployment pipelines.
Expert experience upgrading and migrating PL/SQL based applications
Oracle database versions 10g/11g/12c on Unix/Linux
Expert experience of Oracle SQL tuning - execution plans, indexes, hints, and Legacy optimiser quirks.
Expert experience of schema design & data modelling in a Legacy ERP context.
Installation, patching and upgrades
Practitioner Experience in working on RMAN/OEM
Expert experience working on Oracle E-business Suite R12.
Expert experience working with SOA, Weblogic, Portal, IAM.
Expert experience of EBS concurrent managers
Weblogic Clustering and JVM tuning
Automation of administrative tasks via Scripting
Practitioner knowledge of Git
Ability to create and utilise AWS Cloud Formation templates to automate creation of AWS images.
Practitioner experience working in Agile product delivery teams
Excellent mentoring, coaching and skills transfer capabilities
Desirable Experience
Adaptable team player with a passion for learning and problem-solving
Strong troubleshooting skills, with a mindset of continuous improvement
Excellent mentoring, coaching and skills transfer capabilities
Version control for databases, eg Flyway or similar
Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client.