ABOUT THE CLIENT
Our client is a major UK public sector organisation responsible for delivering essential digital services.
Its technology teams are undertaking an ambitious modernisation programme, moving towards a true DevOps operating model with greater automation, improved monitoring and faster, more reliable delivery.
THE PRINCIPAL ORACLE DBA ROLE
As a Principal Oracle DBA, you will work within a specialist DBA team supporting and modernising critical Oracle database environments hosted in AWS.
You will provide technical leadership and guidance to Senior DBAs while helping drive the transition towards a more automated DevOps operating model.
You will be responsible for maintaining stable, secure and highly available databases while supporting upgrades, migrations, performance optimisation and automation.
The environment supports a range of Oracle technologies, including Oracle E-Business Suite R12, SOA, WebLogic, Portal, IAM, OHS and APEX.
You will also contribute to CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring and alerting, scripting and continuous improvement across the database estate.
PRINCIPAL ORACLE DBA ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Expert-level Oracle DBA experience
- Strong AWS experience, particularly EC2, RDS, Lambda and S3
- Oracle 10g/11g/12c experience across Unix/Linux environments
- Expert Oracle SQL tuning – execution plans, indexes, hints and optimiser behaviour
- Strong PL/SQL application upgrade and migration experience
- Expert experience with Oracle E-Business Suite R12
- Experience with SOA, WebLogic, Portal and IAM
- Experience with EBS Concurrent Managers
- WebLogic clustering and JVM tuning
- Oracle installation, patching and upgrades
- RMAN and OEM experience
- Strong scripting/automation experience
- Experience creating and using AWS CloudFormation templates
- Strong CI/CD and continuous delivery/deployment experience
- Practitioner-level Git experience
- Agile product delivery experience
- Excellent mentoring, coaching and knowledge-transfer skills
Desirable
- Flyway or similar database version-control tooling
- Strong DevOps transformation experience
- Experience automating database administration and operational processes