Oracle DBA- Banking client exp required

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

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced Oracle DBA to join their team in Watford. The ideal candidate will support major Oracle databases, ensuring optimal performance and resilience while collaborating closely with DevOps teams. This role requires strong skills in Oracle database management and a commitment to 24/7 support to meet client needs. Candidates should be prepared to engage actively in process improvements and troubleshooting initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Oracle (v19c) RDBMS.
• Experience in database software installation and upgrades.
• Proficient in RAC, Dataguard on a LINUX platform.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 support for Oracle database systems.
• Manage database installations, upgrades, and migrations.
• Participate in crisis calls and customer support resolutions.

Skills

Oracle Database

RAC

Dataguard

LINUX

Database Migration

Troubleshooting

Database Backup

Performance Tuning

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watford, hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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26.06.2025

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10.08.2025

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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