Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA)
Salary: Up to £90,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Location: Central London - Hybrid (3 days a week onsite)
Hours: 40 hours per week - Full time
Type: Permanent
We have partnered with a globally established organisation to hire an experienced Oracle Database Engineer for their database and platform engineering team. This is a hands-on position covering Oracle administration, automation and performance engineering across large-scale Exadata and cloud environments, including Autonomous Exadata Cloud@Customer.
The Oracle Database Engineer role suits an Oracle professional who wants to move beyond routine administration into platform engineering: building automation that removes manual overhead, tuning at scale, and owning multi-tenant database architecture across mission-critical systems.
About the role - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):
- Build automation tooling and platform solutions using Ansible and scripting to reduce manual work across the database estate
- Administer and tune Oracle RAC (11gR2-19c) and Clusterware, including build, troubleshooting and ongoing optimisation
- Own performance tuning at SQL, instance and system level across production environments
- Design and manage backup and recovery using RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump and established migration methodologies
- Administer Oracle ASM and Data Guard to support high availability and disaster recovery
- Manage multi-tenant architecture, including PDB and CDB design and administration
- Provide L3 support across Oracle Database and Exadata Cloud environments, including root cause analysis and permanent fixes rather than workarounds
- Advise application teams on database performance, architecture and product selection
- Contribute to wider platform resilience and performance initiatives
About you - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):
- Strong Oracle DBA experience across 12c, 18c, 19c and 23ai, including installation, configuration and full lifecycle management
- Solid grounding in Exadata Infrastructure, ideally including Autonomous Exadata Cloud @ Customer (ExaCC)
- Hands-on experience with Oracle RAC and Clusterware (CRS): build, administration, troubleshooting and tuning
- Working knowledge of PDB/CDB multi-tenant architecture
- Strong automation and scripting ability: Ansible playbooks plus Bash/KSH or Python
- Proven Oracle performance tuning experience at SQL, instance and system level
- Solid backup and recovery experience: RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump, and migration work
- Experience administering Oracle ASM and Data Guard for HA/DR
Desirable - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):
- Oracle Certified Master (OCM)
- Oracle APEX experience
- Java development knowledge
- Git or Stash version control
- Understanding of server architecture, enterprise storage, networking and firewall concepts
- Familiarity with ITIL and formal service management processes
If you are interested in the Oracle Database Engineer position, please applyin the immediate instance.