Oracle DBA- Banking client exp required

Oracle DBA- Banking client exp required

Posted 3 days ago by Vallum Associates

Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
United Kingdom

Summary: The Oracle DBA role involves the design, build, and ongoing support of large Oracle databases for a banking client, requiring expertise in Oracle RDBMS, RAC, and Dataguard on a Linux platform. The position demands active participation in a DevOps team, ensuring compliance with client policies and maintaining service level agreements. The DBA will also focus on automation, troubleshooting, and performance tuning while providing 24/7 support. Weekend work and on-call duties are expected as part of the role.

Key Responsibilities:

  • All aspects of Oracle DBA support including design, build, ongoing enhancements, and 24/7 support.
  • Perform database software installation, upgrades, and apply relevant patches.
  • Conduct database migrations and build/deploy/implement solutions.
  • Perform capacity planning and disaster recovery planning.
  • Troubleshoot and fix incidents, manage database space, and implement releases/service requests.
  • Participate in crisis calls and lead from an Oracle DB perspective.
  • Conduct server monitoring and health checks at both server and database levels.
  • Assist the development community with miscellaneous queries and problems.
  • Actively participate in identifying problem situations and resolving them for maximum customer satisfaction.

Key Skills:

  • Strong experience with Oracle (v19c) RDBMS, RAC, and Dataguard on a Linux platform.
  • Experience with database software installation, upgrades, and patching.
  • Proficient in database migrations and capacity planning.
  • Strong troubleshooting and incident resolution skills.
  • Experience with scripting and automation.
  • Excellent customer service and problem resolution abilities.
  • Experience with Oracle databases running on RedHat Linux.
  • Familiarity with Delphix is a plus.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Job Title: Oracle DBA

Location: Remote, UK

Duration: 6months+

Banking client experience required

Job Description

Responsible for the design build and day-to-day support of the Oracle databases. These databases are each 100TB in size(and growing) , hold over 13 Billion rows of data each and together process circa 1 billion SQL statements per day. As part of a DevOps team, you will work closely with the application and infrastructure POD SMEs to ensure these critical services function to the required standards. Maintain and improve SLA’s and ensure compliance to client policies at all times. Actively participate to achieve organization objectives for efficiencies, innovations, and quality delivery. Perform pro-active analysis on day-to-day work, identify areas for automation, report and follow up on process or technical gaps, reduce repeat or false incidents, and standardize tasks/processes. Support is required 24 hrs. x 7 days in week x 365 days from office or on call depending on business needs (usually 1 week in 4 on-call) . Required to work on weekends (usually 1 in 4) often at short notice. Resource will get compensatory time- off for as per HR guidelines

Responsibilities

  • All aspects of the Oracle DBA Support including the design, build, ongoing enhancements (e.g. automation) and 24* 7 support
  • RAC, Oracle 19, Database Restoration, Troubleshooting
  • Must have strong experience of Oracle (v19c) RDBMS, RAC and Dataguard on a LINUX platform including:
    • Perform Database software installation, upgrades and apply relevant patches
    • Perform Database migrations – intra platform or inter platforms
    • Build and Deploy/Implement Solutions. Perform Capacity Planning and DR Planning.
    • Troubleshooting and fixing incidents
    • Creating / altering / dropping tablespaces
    • Clone one environment from another
    • Database backup / restore
    • Data Archival activities
    • Assist the development community with the resolution of miscellaneous queries and problems
    • Database space management
    • Implementing releases / service requests
    • Server monitoring including health checks at server level and database level
    • Keeping the systems up and running cleanly
    • Timely escalation of issues to Team Lead
    • Performance and Tuning of database
    • Scripting Skills
    • Customer Service and Problem Resolution
    • Actively participate in crisis calls taking the lead from an Oracle DB perspective
    • Participate in identifying problem situations and resolve to give maximum customer satisfaction
  • Experience of Oracle databases running on RedHat Linux
  • Experience on Delphix will be good to have

Kind Regards -- Priyanka Sharma Senior Delivery Consultant Office: 02033759240 Email: psharma@vallumassociates.com