Hybrid Oracle DBA – Manchester (Permanent)

Harvey Nash Plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash Plc is seeking an experienced Oracle DBA to join on a permanent basis, based in Manchester with hybrid working. The role encompasses day-to-day administration, support and optimisation of a substantial Oracle estate across multiple business-critical applications.

You will balance BAU support with database engineering and ongoing improvement initiatives, ensuring availability, security and performance of the platform while aligning with infrastructure and application teams.

Qualifications

• Proven commercial experience as an Oracle DBA.
• Strong expertise in Oracle Database Administration.
• Experience managing Oracle Data Guard environments.
• Knowledge of backup, recovery, disaster recovery and performance management.
• Experience with database cloning, migrations, patching and maintenance.
• Experience supporting Oracle environments on Red Hat Linux.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of database services.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Administration, monitoring and support of a large Oracle database estate.
• Management of Oracle Data Guard environments.
• Backup, recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Database performance monitoring, tuning and optimisation.
• Database cloning, patching, upgrades and ongoing maintenance.
• Supporting daily production database cloning activities.
• Managing Oracle databases hosted on Red Hat Linux.
• Troubleshooting incidents and resolving database-related issues.
• Working closely with infrastructure and application support teams to maintain service availability.

Skills

Oracle DBA

Oracle Data Guard

Red Hat Linux

Backup & DR planning

Performance tuning

Cloning & patching

Independent worker

SQL Server Administration

Job description

Harvey Nash Plc is seeking an experienced Oracle DBA to join on a permanent basis, based in Manchester with hybrid working. The role encompasses day-to-day administration, support and optimisation of a substantial Oracle estate across multiple business-critical applications.

You will balance BAU support with database engineering and ongoing improvement initiatives, ensuring availability, security and performance of the platform while aligning with infrastructure and application teams.