Oracle Database Engineer (h/f)

Oracle Database Engineer
London
Fully Remote
£300 - £350pd

About Us:

We are a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specializing in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We foster a culture of openness, integrity, and collaboration, aiming to deliver optimal services for our clients and create a positive and equitable working environment.

We are looking for an Oracle Database Engineer with strong hands-on experience in database administration and a deep understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL platforms. The ideal consultant will have a proven track record of managing and maintaining highly available, secure, and performant database platforms in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure daily health and compliance checks for all production systems.

• Ensure successful database backups and promptly resolve any issues.

• Monitor and manage database jobs, ensuring successful execution and resolution of any failures.

• Detect and address database monitoring alerts promptly.

• Manage database capacity to accommodate projected business-as-usual growth.

• Respond to team distribution list emails in a timely manner.

• Handle problem tickets and service requests efficiently, keeping customer needs in mind.

• Maintain high availability, reliability, security, and performance of database platforms.

• Perform database installation, configuration, tuning, upgrades, and maintenance activities.

• Provide technical support to application support and development teams.

• Offer consultancy services to application support and development teams on database and systems design.

• Execute disaster recovery procedures as necessary.

• Apply database security updates in compliance with defined policies.

• Review and remediate vulnerabilities identified through Qualys scans.

• Deliver project-related workloads according to defined plans and budgets.

• Maintain and update all operational procedures accurately.

• Participate in On-Call rotation, triaging, and addressing production issues as they arise.

• Identify cost-saving and optimization opportunities within the organization.

• Build strong relationships across business areas, underpinned by trust and core values.

Required Skills:

• Excellent knowledge of multiple database platforms such as Oracle, MSSQL, Sybase, Snowflake, and MongoDB.

• Strong experience working with Exadata environments.

• Proficient in configuring Linux and Windows operating systems for optimal database performance.

• Solid understanding of networking, storage, server, and virtualization layers.

• Expertise in logical and physical database design.

• Experience in database installation, configuration, backup, and recovery strategies.

• Strong knowledge of database performance tuning, migrations, and upgrades.

• Proficiency in clustering, high availability, replication, and disaster recovery.

• In-depth understanding of database security, auditing, and compliance with regulations such as GDPR and SOX.

Join Us:

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately. Our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals looking to further their careers and explore their full potential.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion, or ethnic origin.