Database & DevOps Team Lead

Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 per year

• Significant hands-on Oracle Database Administration experience in enterprise environments
• Strong knowledge of Oracle installation, configuration, performance tuning, security, patching and upgrades
• Experience leading technical teams and developing colleagues
• Experience managing operational workloads, technical risks and service improvements
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience working with third-party support providers and managing escalations
• Solid understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and monitoring tools
• Highly desirable: Oracle Solaris administration experience
• Highly desirable: Oracle RAC or RAC One Node experience
• Highly desirable: Oracle RMAN backup and recovery experience
• Highly desirable: Microsoft SQL Server experience
• Highly desirable: Azure cloud technologies experience
• Highly desirable: Experience with Git, Jenkins, TeamCity or Octopus Deploy
• Highly desirable: Exposure to database upgrades, migrations and cloud transformation projects

• Lead, develop and mentor Database Administration and DevOps team members
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for Oracle database environments
• Drive knowledge sharing, succession planning and team capability development
• Oversee database performance, security, patching, upgrades and maintenance
• Manage relationships with third-party suppliers and support partners
• Lead responses to major incidents, problem management and service improvement initiatives
• Maintain and test robust backup, recovery and disaster recovery arrangements
• Support cloud, automation and platform modernisation programmes
• Work with infrastructure, development, testing and product teams to deliver reliable services and successful project outcomes

• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Git
• Support
• Jenkins
• Oracle
• SQL
• Security
• Teamcity
• NodeJS

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We are recruiting a Database and DevOps Team Lead (Oracle) for our public sector client. This is an opportunity to provide technical leadership across Database Administration and DevOps in a complex, highly integrated enterprise technology environment, helping shape the future direction of critical business systems. The role combines Oracle expertise, people leadership, service improvement and operational management, with a focus on the reliability, security and performance of business-critical platforms. The position is based in Manchester with hybrid working and a minimum of one office visit per fortnight. Salary is £70,000–£80,000 plus excellent benefits, including hybrid working, a strong pension, generous annual leave, private healthcare, wellbeing benefits, and ongoing training and professional development. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the modernisation of critical public sector services.

last updated 44 week of 2026