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6 months contract with a Local Authority

Job Summary:

· We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform.

· Contribute to the ongoing development of the OCI platform.

· Provide support to in-house DBA Team

· Ensure delivery of best-practice across the existing Oracle services

Key Duties/Accountabilities:

· Contribute and deliver against strategic initiatives of both the Digital Service and LCC through the delivery of small to large scale projects, meeting challenging deadlines.

· Provide Oracle database administration expertise.

· Software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the database estate.

· Security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform.

· Undertake performance diagnostics & tuning.

· Work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer for databases and the project management community to ensure delivery of agreed solutions and maintenance of existing services.

· Work closely with the Principal Engineer/Designer ensuring that strategic initiatives are delivered, and best practice standards are embedded within the design process.

· Drive efficiencies and cost-savings through continuous improvement of people, process and technology.

· Ensure that customer aspirations & requirements are the driving force behind everything we do.

· Represent the Digital Service at all levels and attend customer meetings.

Essential Experience Required:

· Experience with Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites is essential.

· Experience of implementing robust OCI database security measures is essential.

· Experience with troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI is essential.

· Supporting experienced in-house DBAs in the delivery of ongoing workloads is essential.

· Proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI database security, performance tuning and monitoring is essential.

· Experience of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is required.

· Substantial experience of designing and implementing highly available, performant and secure database solutions that are aligned to availability and disaster recovery strategies is essential.

· Experience of management tools, utilising OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance and capacity is essential.

· Experience of Data Guard is essential.

· Experience of Oracle upgrades and database migrations is essential.

· Experience of Linux operating system and Oracle RU patching in OCI, Oracle Forms and Reports is essential.

Additional information to note:

· Working hours: 37 hours per week

· The role is a hybrid role mainly working from home. Candidate will need to attend County Hall, Preston for approximately 3 days a week initially.

The closing date for this position is 10th March 2024