Lead Oracle DBA — AWS, EBS & DevOps (Hybrid)

Amber Labs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Private medical

Training budget

EV scheme

Pension contributions

Team socials

Referral bonus (£3,000)

Public sector project exposure

Job summary

Amber Labs in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Lead Oracle DBA to join our public sector transformation programme. You will lead a large Oracle estate hosted in AWS, covering E-Business Suite R12, SOA and middleware, while driving automation and reliable operations.

You will mentor Senior DBAs, work within Agile delivery teams and collaborate with developers, testers and infrastructure engineers to deliver secure, scalable digital services.

Qualifications

• Active UK SC Clearance is required.
• Extensive Oracle DBA experience, incl. EBS R12.
• Experience with Oracle on Unix/Linux.
• Strong SQL/PL/SQL tuning expertise.
• Experience upgrading, patching, migrations, and tooling.
• AWS experience with EC2/RDS/S3/Lambda.
• CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• RMAN and OEM proficiency.
• SOA, WebLogic, Portal, IAM, OHS and APEX knowledge.
• Git and infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation).
• Agile delivery environments; mentoring capabilities.
• Experience in UK Government/public sector contexts.
• Flyway or similar DB version-control tool usage.

Responsibilities

• Lead administration, maintenance and optimisation of Oracle databases across environments.
• Install, patch, upgrade, migrate and configure Oracle systems.
• Support Oracle 10g/11g/12c on Unix/Linux.
• Manage RMAN backups and OEM monitoring.
• Tuning SQL/PLSQL and performance optimisation.
• Support EBS R12 and related modules and middleware.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Migrate databases to AWS and manage cloud resources.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Senior DBAs.
• Promote standards, best practices and continuous improvement.
• Work in Agile teams across development, testing and delivery.

Skills

Active UK SC Clearance

Oracle DBA

Senior Oracle DBA

Lead Oracle DBA

Oracle E-Business Suite R12

Oracle 10g/11g/12c

Unix/Linux

SQL & PL/SQL tuning

Oracle upgrades/patching/migrations

AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/Lambda)

CI/CD pipelines

RMAN & OEM

SOA/WebLogic/Portal/IAM

Git & CloudFormation

Agile delivery

Mentoring Senior DBAs

UK Government/public sector experience

Flyway (or similar)

Oracle APEX

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

Amber Labs in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Lead Oracle DBA to join our public sector transformation programme. You will lead a large Oracle estate hosted in AWS, covering E-Business Suite R12, SOA and middleware, while driving automation and reliable operations.

You will mentor Senior DBAs, work within Agile delivery teams and collaborate with developers, testers and infrastructure engineers to deliver secure, scalable digital services.