Full job descriptionOracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA)
Salary: Up to £90,000 + Bonus + Benefits
Location: Central London - Hybrid (3 days a week onsite)
Hours: 40 hours per week - Full time
Type: Permanent
We have partnered with a globally established organisation to hire an experienced Oracle Database Engineer for their database and platform engineering team. This is a hands-on position covering Oracle administration, automation and performance engineering across large-scale Exadata and cloud environments, including Autonomous Exadata Cloud@Customer.
The Oracle Database Engineer role suits an Oracle professional who wants to move beyond routine administration into platform engineering: building automation that removes manual overhead, tuning at scale, and owning multi-tenant database architecture across mission-critical systems.
About the role - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):
*Build automation tooling and platform solutions using Ansible and scripting to reduce manual work across the database estate
*Administer and tune Oracle RAC (11gR2-19c) and Clusterware, including build, troubleshooting and ongoing optimisation
*Own performance tuning at SQL, instance and system level across production environments
*Design and manage backup and recovery using RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump and established migration methodologies
*Administer Oracle ASM and Data Guard to support high availability and disaster recovery
*Manage multi-tenant architecture, including PDB and CDB design and administration
*Provide L3 support across Oracle Database and Exadata Cloud environments, including root cause analysis and permanent fixes rather than workarounds
*Advise application teams on database performance, architecture and product selection
*Contribute to wider platform resilience and performance initiatives
About you - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):
*Strong Oracle DBA experience across 12c, 18c, 19c and 23ai, including installation, configuration and full lifecycle management
*Solid grounding in Exadata Infrastructure, ideally including Autonomous Exadata Cloud @ Customer (ExaCC)
*Hands-on experience with Oracle RAC and Clusterware (CRS): build, administration, troubleshooting and tuning
*Working knowledge of PDB/CDB multi-tenant architecture
*Strong automation and scripting ability: Ansible playbooks plus Bash/KSH or Python
*Proven Oracle performance tuning experience at SQL, instance and system level
*Solid backup and recovery experience: RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump, and migration work
*Experience administering Oracle ASM and Data Guard for HA/DR
Desirable - Oracle Database Engineer (Oracle DBA):
*Oracle Certified Master (OCM)
*Oracle APEX experience
*Java development knowledge
*Git or Stash version control
*Understanding of server architecture, enterprise storage, networking and firewall concepts
*Familiarity with ITIL and formal service management processes
If you are interested in the Oracle Database Engineer position, please applyin the immediate instance.