Senior Oracle DBA

Senior Oracle DBA | Bridgend | Up to £50,000 
 

Jonothan Bosworth Recruitment Specialists are currently looking for an Senior Oracle Database Administrator. This is a great job opportunity to work for a leading Global IT Consultancy.

Oracle DBA Job Role:

Database administration and creation.

• You will provide ongoing Database Administration service as defined in customer contracts. This typically comprises: 
o DBMS Support including Schema Management , Storage Management 
o Performance Monitoring and Tuning 
o Formulating and operating backup/recovery & DR strategies 
o Technical advice and guidance 
• You will prepare weekly and monthly reports on progress for the Database Administration Team Leads 
• Reacting to and resolving incidents via a Remedy (ITSM) call management system within strict SLA deadlines. 
• Performing planned database changes both in and out of core business hours within SLA deadlines. 
• Performing new contract adoption / transition activities. 
• Providing advice and guidance on contract bids. 
• Installation, upgrade and patching of Oracle environments, including clustered environments 
• Migrations from earlier versions of Oracle
• Establishing and enforcing DBA team standards, including security strategies
• Consulting with others in IT about implementation and release of database changes
• On-going development and tuning of Oracle database systems 
 

Pre-requisites:

  • You will have at least 2 years experience as an Oracle DBA
  • Versions 9i, 10g, 11g
  • Backup and Recovery (RMAN)
  • Strong SQL/PLSQL and Unix shell scripting skills

Desirable skills:

Oracle 12c 
OVM 
Oracle 10g/11g Certification 
UNIX Admin 
Windows Admin 
Database Performance tuning 
• StatsPack 
• AWR 
High availability DR techniques such 
• Oracle Real Application Clusters 
• Oracle Clusterware 
• Data Guard 
• Active Data Guard 
• GoldenGate 
• Oracle Streams 
• Flashback Technologies 
Moderate Windows scripting skills : including PowerShell 
ITIL 

***This role has SC clearance as mandatory due to the nature of the work. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the UK’s vetting process. Non-UK nationals applying for vacancies where a security clearance is a mandatory requirement, must meet the UK’s 5 year residency criteria in order for their application to be considered. Any person unable to meet these requirements should not apply***