Oracle Database Platform Engineer – DL+

Bloomberg; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg in Dublin is seeking a Database Platform Engineer for Data License Plus (DL+). You will own and evolve the Oracle-based database platform, ensure high availability, performance, and automation across on‑premises and hybrid environments.

You will also contribute to PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr platforms, build self-service tooling, and lead migrations with robust rollback plans. Strong Linux, Python scripting, and IaC experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on Oracle database experience in production environments.
• Strong Oracle architecture, HA, backup/recovery, patching and upgrades knowledge.
• Production experience with adjacent platforms such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr.

Responsibilities

• Own the Oracle platform lifecycle across on-premise and hybrid environments.
• Engineer for performance and scale via query tuning and indexing.
• Build resilience: backups, replication, HA, failover, disaster recovery.
• Automate via scripting, IaC and CI/CD to enable self-service provisioning and recovery.
• Support PostgreSQL/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr platforms while keeping Oracle as primary.
• Lead migrations: version upgrades, schema moves, data movement, safe cutovers.
• Instrument and secure the service with dashboards, alerts, and security controls.
• Improve reliability: incident response, root-cause analysis and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Oracle DBA

Linux (RHEL)

Python scripting

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Bloomberg in Dublin is seeking a Database Platform Engineer for Data License Plus (DL+). You will own and evolve the Oracle-based database platform, ensure high availability, performance, and automation across on‑premises and hybrid environments.

You will also contribute to PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr platforms, build self-service tooling, and lead migrations with robust rollback plans. Strong Linux, Python scripting, and IaC experience are essential.