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Oracle Senior Principal Database Administrator in United Kingdom

Job Description

Work with a world class team to provide Oracle Database Administration support for customer production systems in the Oracle Cloud, with the opportunity to work on the latest Oracle database releases and features as part of the cloud first strategy. Provide DBA operational support with a high degree of customer service, technical expertise, and timeliness. Provide accurate and creative solutions to customer problems to ensure customer success.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

Must be a motivated, team-player with the ability to work cross-functionally with a “can-do” and “do-it-right” attitude, a self-starter, and constantly thinking of ways to improve the work.

Leading contributor individually and as a team member. 7+ years of experience supporting relational databases as a DBA, with a focus in Oracle and related tools. Experience with an organization with a key 24 X 7 reliance on its databases is preferred. BS or equivalent desired.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Alert and diagnostic monitoring

  • Participate 24x7 on call support on a weekly rotating schedule, including weekends

  • Work closely with Product Development teams and provide feedback to improve product quality

  • Develop administration automation and monitoring scripts as needed

  • Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures/documentation

  • Provide escalation support for database related issues

  • Share knowledge and mentor junior team members as needed

  • Attend weekly team meetings and participate team building activities

  • Other duties, as assigned

Key Requirements include:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

  • Must have 6-10+ years of extensive database management experience with a strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive

  • Willing to work in a 24x7 production mission-critical environment, including weekends

  • Experience with Oracle database 12c, 19c, RAC, ASM, Data Guard and Performance tuning

  • Experience with Enterprise Manager for monitoring and administering mission critical databases

  • Experience with database backup and recovery

  • Experience with database patching and upgrades

  • Experience in any Unix shell script, Perl script and Python

  • Experience in Oracle SQL/PLSQL

  • Experience administering databases on Exadata is a strong plus

  • Experience with Public Cloud

  • Understanding of Rest APIs

  • Knowledge of best practices and DEVOPS methodologies in an always-up, always-available service

  • Strong troubleshooting skills to investigate errors and performance bottlenecks

  • Excellent written, verbal communication and documentation skills

If this sounds like you, we hope to meet you! Create the future with us. Apply now.

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