Oracle DBA Professional

Experis; Tyseley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment consultancy seeks an Oracle DBA for a 6-month contract in the UK, primarily onsite in Sheffield or Birmingham. The role involves providing technical support for Oracle DB and MySQL systems, incident handling, and promoting continuous improvement methodologies. Candidates should have strong DBA skills, experience troubleshooting within cloud infrastructure, and be proficient in programming, particularly with Python. This role offers a competitive daily rate of £365 inside IR35.

Qualifications

• Strong skills in Oracle DBA and a learning acumen for new database related technology.
• Experience in troubleshooting technical faults within the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure.
• Understanding of collaborative approaches and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support by resolving escalated technical support issues.
• Support timely delivery of IT Provision, Incident handling, and Change Management.
• Manage escalations effectively to Line Manager.
• Identify areas of waste and drive improvements using CI methodology.
• Provide analytical and innovative input for projects and operations.

Skills

Oracle DBA

MySQL Server

Python

Unix shell scripting

Stakeholder Management

Job description

Oracle DBA

6 months - possible extensions

Sheffield or Birmingham - x5 days onsite

£365 per day inside IR35 - Umbrella only

The role holder will be incident handling and change implementation in one or more technical areas, particularly Oracle DB & MySQL Server. You will be expected to provide effective technical support of the technology within Enterprise Cloud Services Infrastructure to meet customer KPI & SLA's. Use and promote CI methodology as a standard operating tool used by the team on a daily basis to identify areas of waste and drive improvements.

What you'll be doing - your accountabilities

• 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 are very desirable. Required programming language Python is extensively used in development and Integration support for automation. Understanding of Unix shell scripting would be an advantage too.

The skills you'll need to succeed

• Oracle DBA Administrator: Strong skills in Oracle DBA and a learning acumen for new database related technology, preferably in latest versions
• 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.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.