Oracle Database Administrator (Oracle DBA)
Summary
Maintains and optimizes Oracle database environments for a UK-based IT services firm, ensuring high availability and performance with Oracle RAC and related technologies.
Anticipated Contract End Date: November 30, 2026
Work set up: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)
Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an experienced Oracle Database Administrator (Oracle DBA) to manage, maintain, and optimize mission-critical Oracle database environments. This role focuses on ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, operational excellence, and optimal database performance through expertise in Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, Performance Tuning & Optimization, and RMAN Backup & Recovery. The successful candidate will also support enterprise database security, lifecycle management, and business continuity while collaborating with cross-functional technical teams.
What you will do:
- Administer, maintain, and support Oracle database environments across production, testing, and development.
- Design, implement, and manage Oracle RAC configurations to ensure high availability, scalability, and failover capabilities.
- Configure, monitor, and maintain Oracle Data Guard environments, including physical and logical standby databases, switchovers, and failovers.
- Monitor database performance and proactively troubleshoot issues affecting system health, availability, and reliability.
- Analyze SQL execution plans and optimize database performance through tuning and bottleneck identification.
- Monitor database resource utilization and recommend performance improvements.
- Develop and execute Oracle RMAN backup and recovery strategies to ensure disaster recovery readiness.
- Perform backup validation, recovery testing, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Manage database patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle activities with minimal business disruption.
- Implement and maintain database security standards, user access controls, and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and support teams to resolve database-related issues.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practice guidelines.
- Participate in on-call support, incident management, and root cause analysis activities as required.
- Support database automation and infrastructure management initiatives where applicable.