Overview
We are seeking a Senior Oracle DBA with significant hands-on experience in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Exadata, Data Guard, and GoldenGate. This role involves ownership of the database estate, ensuring optimal performance and reliability for critical business operations. The successful candidate will work closely with the infrastructure team and will partake in occasional overseas travel to integrate with the team during the initial stage of the contract.
Responsibilities
- Engineering and tuning the Oracle estate on OCI.
- Owning the database side of platform incidents, managing diagnosis, fix, and root cause analysis.
- Managing OCI environments alongside the wider infrastructure team, focusing on multi-cloud interconnectivity.
- Overseeing end-to-end database backup and disaster recovery processes, including retention and recovery strategies.
- Coordinating the build and handover of new customer database environments.
- Acting as an escalation point for the wider database estate, including Oracle and SQL Server.
- Monitoring and managing the Oracle and OCI cost profile to ensure efficiency.
Requirements
- Proven senior-level experience as an Oracle DBA, specifically in large production environments.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including provisioning and database services.
- Deep knowledge of Exadata, Data Guard, GoldenGate, and Real Application Clusters (RAC).
- Expertise in performance tuning, including execution plans and AWR/ASH assessments.
- Strong ability in backup, recovery, and disaster recovery design for Oracle environments.
- Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform to streamline DBA workflows.
- Understanding of Oracle licensing models and their cost implications.
- Ability to work independently and document processes effectively.