Oracle DBA & Database Manager — 6-Month Contract

Tatton Recruitment; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Tatton Recruitment is seeking a Database Manager contractor for a 6-month initial contract in Chippenham, Wiltshire. The role suits a candidate with Oracle Database Administration experience, ideally from a spacecraft operation or other mission-critical environment.

The successful candidate will perform maintenance, implement changes, and release databases while maintaining change control, backups and system housekeeping to ensure optimum performance.

Qualifications

• At least 1–2 years’ database administration or system support experience in a spacecraft operation or mission-critical environment.
• Experience with Oracle database administration and sustaining databases in a production setting.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Computer Science or related discipline preferred but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Perform database maintenance and update activities.
• Implement database changes via change management procedures.
• Release new databases on system and maintain change control documents.
• Perform routine data and software backup and archiving.
• Maintain system and database performance through housekeeping tasks.
• Diagnose and rectify system failures and recover subsystems.

Skills

Oracle database administration

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

RHEL

Solaris

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2022

Windows 10

Job description

Tatton Recruitment is seeking a Database Manager contractor for a 6-month initial contract in Chippenham, Wiltshire. The role suits a candidate with Oracle Database Administration experience, ideally from a spacecraft operation or other mission-critical environment.

The successful candidate will perform maintenance, implement changes, and release databases while maintaining change control, backups and system housekeeping to ensure optimum performance.