Senior Oracle DBA: Performance & Automation Lead

Western Power; Perth; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Additional leave up to four weeks per年

Salary packaging

Discounted health insurance

Gym membership

Wellness leave

End-of-trip facilities

Parental leave (22 weeks)

First Nations cultural leave

Job summary

Western Power is seeking a Senior Applications Database Administrator to ensure peak performance, security, integrity and reliability of our database platforms. You will provide expert technical leadership across OT databases, driving best practices in configuration, maintenance and optimisation.

You will monitor, analyse and optimise critical environments, lead complex investigations, evaluate new technologies and mentor colleagues to uphold enterprise standards and scalable data architectures.

Qualifications

• Experience administering Oracle databases in enterprise environments.
• Strong ability to diagnose issues and tune performance for high-traffic systems.
• Experience with backup, recovery and disaster recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyse and optimise database environments for performance, availability and security.
• Lead performance investigations and capacity planning to support growth.
• Evaluate and implement new database technologies in line with enterprise standards.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor peers across projects and operations teams.
• Design, maintain and improve data models and data flows for scalable apps.
• Collaborate with infra, app and architecture teams on capacity forecasts and roadmaps.
• Apply deep expertise to strengthen resilience and drive continuous service improvements.

Skills

Oracle DB Admin

Performance tuning

Backup/DR

ITIL ITSM

Technical leadership

Data modeling

Job description

Western Power is seeking a Senior Applications Database Administrator to ensure peak performance, security, integrity and reliability of our database platforms. You will provide expert technical leadership across OT databases, driving best practices in configuration, maintenance and optimisation.

You will monitor, analyse and optimise critical environments, lead complex investigations, evaluate new technologies and mentor colleagues to uphold enterprise standards and scalable data architectures.