Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid) Full Time Temporary

Senior Oracle Database Administrator (Hybrid) needed in Preston, Paying £22.51ph – Reference: RQ1235616

This role is a hybrid role mainly working from home. 
This role is for approx 6 months 
Hours per week are 37

Your role will give you opportunities to:
• contribute to the ongoing development of the OCI platform
• provide support to in-house DBA Team
• ensure delivery of best-practice across the existing Oracle services

Candidate:

We are looking for an Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform.

The role
• contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines.
• provide Oracle database administration expertise.
• software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate.
• security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform.
• undertake performance diagnostics & tuning.
• work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer for databases and the project management community to ensure delivery of agreed solutions and maintenance of existing services.
• work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer ensuring that strategic initiatives are delivered, and best practice standards are embedded within the design process.
• drive efficiencies and cost-savings through continuous improvement of people, process and technology.
• ensure that customer aspirations & requirements are the driving force behind everything we do.
• represent the Digital Service at all levels and attend customer meetings.
About you
• in-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Substantial experience of designing and implementing highly available, performant and secure database solutions that are aligned to availability and disaster recovery strategies.
• Experience of management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance and capacity planning
• Experience of Data Guard
• Experience of Oracle upgrades and database migrations. Experience of Linux operating system and Oracle RU patching in OCI.
• Oracle Forms and Reports

This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis.

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to katie@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

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