Oracle DBA

LA International; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consultancy is seeking an experienced Oracle DBA Professional for a 6-month contract in Birmingham or Sheffield. The role emphasizes stakeholder management, troubleshooting of technical faults, and contribution to continuous improvement initiatives. Strong programming skills in Python are desirable, and the position involves a mix of on-site and remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle DB / MySQL in cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to collaborate across complex relationships.
• Programming skills in Python are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot technical faults within the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure.
• Support timely delivery of IT provision and incident handling.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement.

Skills

Technical fault troubleshooting

Stakeholder management

Continuous improvement practices

Python programming

Unix shell scripting

Job description

Overview

In-life Operations Oracle DBA Professional

Daily pay rate Inside IR35 £365

Duration - initial 6 Months

Location - Birmingham or Sheffield (2 Sheffield, and 2 either Sheffield or Birmingham)

3 days onsite 2 WFH

Responsibilities

• Experienced in own area, able to own and troubleshoot technical faults within the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle DB / MySQL) & our support structure.
• Be agile - You identify opportunities to use collaborative approaches and continuous improvement. You contribute to projects as a subject matter expert or content owner.
• Stakeholder Management: Able to collaborate and work effectively across complex and matrix relationships, negotiating where needed to help support agreement.
• Provide technical support, resolving escalated technical support issues across the lines of business to ensure systems availability to the customer.
• Support the timely delivery of IT Provision ,Incident handling, Service Requests and Change Management by the team to the published SLAs and KPIs
• Provide technical support in the delivery of the services offered by the team and input to service productivity to achieve targets.
• Provide Line Manager early sight visibility of issues and concerns that could impact the Systems Engineering objectives, and effectively manage escalations.
• Support the Operational elements on transformational opportunities to help meet Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure and Technology objectives and influence the business to adopt recommendations.
• Practice CI methodology as a standard operating tool used by the team on a daily basis to identify areas of waste and drive improvements.
• To provide analytical and innovative input to projects/operational issues as well as support negotiations.
• Programming skills is very desriable. Required programming language Python is extensively used in development and Integration support for automation. Understanding of Unix shell scripting would be an advantage too.

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