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Oracle Database Administrator - Manchester
£60,000 - 90,000
Piccadilly Station, Manchester
£60,000 - 90,000
Requirements
Must:
- Extensive hands-on experience administering Oracle Database 12c in high-availability, mission-critical environments.
- Proven track record of diagnosing and resolving complex database performance issues, including SQL tuning, AWR/ASH analysis, and optimisation of high-volume transactional workloads.
- Demonstrable experience managing RMAN backup and recovery strategies, including real-world restore scenarios and resilience testing.
- Background in patching, upgrading, and hardening Oracle estates, ensuring security compliance and minimal service disruption.
- Experience supporting development and QA teams, including reviewing schema changes, analysing data behaviours, and advising on query patterns.
- Strong operational experience on Linux platforms, particularly in areas affecting DB performance such as I/O, filesystem layout, and kernel tuning.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting live service issues, including production incident support, root cause analysis, and stabilisation activities.
- Experience working within regulated or audited environments, with a solid understanding of data protection, access control, and evidential accuracy.
- Familiarity with multi-environment estate management (DEV/TEST/UAT/STAGE/PROD), including promotion workflows and change governance.
- Experience contributing to runbooks, standards, and operational documentation to support repeatable and reliable database operations.
- Comfortable working independently as a subject-matter expert, often being the primary point of escalation for database-related issues.
Responsibilities
- Deliver stable, secure, and high-performing Oracle database environments that underpin critical services and ensure positive operational outcomes.
- Lead collaboration with development, QA, and operational teams to understand technical requirements, diagnose database-related issues, and shape effective data solutions.
- Implement clear, robust recommendations and technical documentation, including backup strategies, performance improvement actions, and configuration standards, while identifying risks, gaps, and dependencies.
- Design and optimise repeatable database patterns, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance across production and non-production environments.
- Enable teams to fully leverage database capabilities, providing expert guidance on performance behaviour, schema design impacts, and data lifecycle considerations.
- Strengthen engineering practices by contributing to shared DBA methods, knowledge bases, and operational runbooks, improving organisational efficiency and repeatability.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise security policies, audit requirements, and architectural guardrails, maintaining database configurations that satisfy regulatory and compliance obligations.
- Provide authoritative expertise on Oracle technologies, informing senior leadership on risks, opportunities, and long-term considerations related to the database estate.
- Support delivery of complex change initiatives, including platform upgrades, patching cycles, performance remediation programmes, and strategic migrations.
- Champion continuous improvement, staying current with Oracle capabilities, performance tuning techniques, and emerging best practices, applying these to enhance stability and reliability.
- Mentor and support colleagues across Dev, QA, and ASG, acting as the go-to technical expert for database performance, resilience, recovery processes, and incident resolution.
Description
We are looking for an Oracle Database Specialist to join our team in Manchester/Leeds on a hybrid basis for a 6-month contract, with the potential for extension. This role is vital in ensuring the stability, performance, and integrity of our core data platforms. You will work independently and collaborate with various teams to maintain resilient databases, optimise performance, and resolve complex issues. We offer a competitive rate of £600 - £700 per day, and candidates must hold active SC clearance to be considered.
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