Oracle DBA- Banking client exp required

JR United Kingdom; Bolton; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Oracle DBA for a remote position in the UK. This role involves the design, build, and ongoing support of large Oracle databases, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. Candidates should possess strong expertise in Oracle RDBMS on Linux and be prepared to manage 24/7 database support while contributing to operational excellence. This is a dynamic role requiring collaboration within a DevOps team and commitment to customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Strong experience of Oracle (v19c) RDBMS, RAC and Data Guard on a LINUX platform.
• Perform Database software installation, upgrades and apply relevant patches.
• Experience in troubleshooting database incidents and problems.

Responsibilities

• All aspects of Oracle DBA support including design, build, ongoing enhancements and 24/7 support.
• Participate in crisis calls and actively lead from an Oracle DB perspective.
• Perform database backup/restore and manage data archival activities.

Skills

Oracle RDBMS

Database Restoration

Troubleshooting

Capacity Planning

Performance Tuning

Tools

Delphix

RedHat Linux

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26.06.2025

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Job Description:

Job Title: Oracle DBA

Location: Remote, UK

Duration: 6months+

Job Description

• Responsible for the design build and day-to-day support of the Oracle databases. These databases are each 100TB in size(and growing) , hold over 13 Billion rows of data each and together process circa 1 billion SQL statements per day. As part of a DevOps team, you will work closely with the application and infrastructure POD SMEs to ensure these critical services function to the required standards. Maintain and improve SLA’s and ensure compliance to client policies at all times.
• Actively participate to achieve organization objectives for efficiencies, innovations, and quality delivery. Perform pro-active analysis on day-to-day work, identify areas for automation, report and follow up on process or technical gaps, reduce repeat or false incidents, and standardize tasks/processes.
• Support is required 24 hrs. x 7 days in week x 365 days from office or on call depending on business needs (usually 1 week in 4 on-call) . Required to work on weekends (usually 1 in 4) often at short notice. Resource will get compensatory time- off for as per HR guidelines

Responsibilities

• All aspects of the Oracle DBA Support including the design, build, ongoing enhancements (e.g. automation) and 24* 7 support
• RAC, Oracle 19, Database Restoration, Troubleshooting

Must have strong experience of Oracle (v19c) RDBMS, RAC and Dataguard on a LINUX platform

including:

o Perform Database software installation, upgrades and apply relevant patches

o Perform Database migrations – intra platform or inter platforms

o Build and Deploy/Implement Solutions. Perform Capacity Planning and DR Planning.

o Troubleshooting and fixing incidents

o Creating / altering / dropping tablespaces

o Clone one environment from another

o Database backup / restore

o Data Archival activities

o Assist the development community with the resolution of miscellaneous queries and problems

o Database space management

o Implementing releases / service requests

o Server monitoring including health checks at server level and database level

o Keeping the systems up and running cleanly

o Timely escalation of issues to Team Lead

o Performance and Tuning of database

• Customer Service and Problem Resolution

• Actively participate in crisis calls taking the lead from an Oracle DB perspective

• Participate in identifying problem situations and resolve to give maximum customer satisfaction

-Experience of Oracle databases running on RedHat Linux

• Experience on Delphix will be good to have