About the Role
Job Overview
The Oracle DBA is responsible for the 24/7 support of Oracle production database services to ensure the highest standards of availability, resilience, integrity, security and performance required by the business systems.
Duties and Responsibilities
Responsible for ensuring availability and performance of the databases that support the system
Work with the team to ensure that the associated hardware resources allocated to the databases and to ensure high availability and optimum performance
To proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
Responsible for providing trend analysis to the service management team to enable them to make informed decisions regarding resource management
Responsible for problem escalation to Oracle Development team and third parties as appropriate
Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout and upgrades
Responsible for implementation and release of database changes as submitted by the development team
Skills / Attributes Required
Strong Oracle Database Administration experience
Experience of managing multiple RDBMS on large systems
Experience of working in a team that delivers a high availability service
Practical experience in monitoring and tuning a database to provide a high availability service
Experience of SQL Server is desirable
Oracle Certification, preferably OCP
Tech Stack
Oracle Database AdministrationRDBMSSQL