Job Description
Are you an experienced Senior Database Engineer?
Do you have strong DBA skills across Oracle and SQL Server?
This is initially a 12 month contract, daily rate is up to £589 (Inside IR35). You can be based anywhere in the UK as this is a remote contract; however, you need to be open to an occasional visit to Glasgow/Newcastle.
Please only apply for this role if you have the ‘right to work’ in the UK with no Visa restrictions.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Provide database support & maintenance of many critical production services, which spans across multiple database technologies (predominantly Oracle & SQL Server).
* Provide database administrative support and guidance in the shape of:
1. Database lifecycle support (provisioning/deletion/patching/upgrading/migrating)
2. Back-up and Recovery
3. Monitoring and Alerting
4. Change and Incident Management
5. Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
6. Tuning and Optimisation
7. Disaster Recovery
* Improving our processes through process automation, innovation and continuous improvement.
Required experience:
* A strong understanding and experience of database administration (across Oracle and SQL Server) in a Production setting.
* An ability to troubleshoot Production issues in an analytical manner and make recommendations to resolve issues and/or deliver enhancements.
* Experience of undertaking database builds, patching, migrations and upgrades.
* Experience of High Availability and Disaster Recovery Methods including setup, troubleshooting and support - Oracle RAC, Oracle Restart, ASM, Oracle Data Guard & SQL Server Always on High Availability.
* Database Performance Tuning and Optimisation skills.
* Experience of using Oracle Enterprise Manager.
* Oracle/Red Hat Linux, Windows, AIX, and Solaris Operating System experience.
Advantageous to have:
* Cloud experience (Oracle OCI, Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer and/or Microsoft Azure) with an awareness of emerging industry trends such as PAAS, DBAS, IAAS.
* SQL Replication experience.
* Awareness of Flashback technologies.
* Experience of Dynatrace tooling.
* Awareness of Windows Failover Clustering.
* Previous experience of working with other database technologies aside from Oracle and SQL Server.
For more information, get in touch as soon as possible.
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