Oracle Data Platform Engineer | Scale, Automate & Secure

Bloomberg; Dublin; Remoto; EUR 110.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Bloomberg is seeking a Database Platform Engineer in Dublin to own the Oracle-based data platform, ensure high availability, scale and security across DL+ workloads, and drive automation for self-service provisioning. You will collaborate with PostgreSQL/OpenSearch/Solr teams, lead migrations and maintain robust monitoring and recovery capabilities.

The role requires senior database engineering experience, strong Linux fundamentals, scripting, and IaC expertise, with a focus on reliability and

Competenze

• Substantial hands-on experience operating Oracle databases in production environments.
• Strong Oracle architecture and lifecycle knowledge including HA, backup & recovery, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning.
• Ability to diagnose complex Oracle performance problems using diagnostics and system evidence.
• Production experience with adjacent platforms: PostgreSQL or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr.
• Strong Linux fundamentals (RHEL) including storage, networking, and I/O troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash with automation using Ansible, Terraform or equivalent.
• Experience with Git-based change control, CI/CD, monitoring and operational docs.
• Reliability mindset with incident response, RCA, recovery testing and cross-team communication.

Mansioni

• Own the Oracle platform lifecycle—standards for architecture, provisioning, patching, upgrades, capacity, maintenance and decommissioning across on-prem and hybrid environments.
• Engineer for performance and scale—diagnose and resolve database performance issues across the stack with cross-functional collaboration.
• Build resilience—manage backup, restore, replication, high-availability, failover and disaster-recovery with defined RPO/RTO.
• Automate and enable self-service—use scripting, IaC and CI/CD to replace runbooks with safe provisioning and recovery workflows.
• Support adjacent data technologies—contribute to operation and standardisation of PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr while keeping Oracle primary.
• Lead migrations—plan version upgrades, schema moves, data movement and low-risk cutovers with rollback plans.
• Instrument and secure—the service with dashboards, alerts, baselines, SLOs and security controls as defaults.
• Improve reliability—lead incidents, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement with engineering teams.

Conoscenze

Oracle databases

Linux fundamentals

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Incident response

Clear communication

Git-based change control

Strumenti

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Descrizione del lavoro

Bloomberg is seeking a Database Platform Engineer in Dublin to own the Oracle-based data platform, ensure high availability, scale and security across DL+ workloads, and drive automation for self-service provisioning. You will collaborate with PostgreSQL/OpenSearch/Solr teams, lead migrations and maintain robust monitoring and recovery capabilities.

The role requires senior database engineering experience, strong Linux fundamentals, scripting, and IaC expertise, with a focus on reliability and