Full job descriptionDatabase and DevOps Team Lead (Oracle)
Manchester (Hybrid - minimum one office visit per fortnight)
£70,000 - £80,000 + Excellent Benefits
A Database & DevOps Team Lead is required for our public sector client to provide technical leadership across its Database Administration and DevOps functions. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team supporting a complex enterprise technology environment while helping to shape the future direction of critical business systems. Working within a highly integrated technology estate, you’ll combine hands-on Oracle database expertise with people leadership, service improvement and operational management responsibilities. You’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, security and performance of business-critical platforms while driving modernisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
*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 activities.
*Manage relationships with third-party suppliers and support partners.
*Lead responses to major incidents, problem management and service improvement initiatives.
*Ensure robust backup, recovery and disaster recovery arrangements are maintained and tested.
*Support ongoing cloud, automation and platform modernisation programmes.
*Work closely with infrastructure, development, testing and product teams to deliver reliable services and successful project outcomes.
Experience required:
*Significant hands-on Oracle Database Administration experience within 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.
*A solid understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and monitoring tools.
Highly Desirable
*Oracle Solaris administration experience.
*Oracle RAC or RAC One Node.
*Oracle RMAN backup and recovery.
*Microsoft SQL Server.
*Azure cloud technologies.
*Experience with Git, Jenkins, TeamCity or Octopus Deploy.
*Exposure to database upgrades, migrations and cloud transformation projects.
Benefits
*Hybrid working arrangements.
*Excellent pension provision.
*Generous annual leave entitlement.
*Private healthcare and wellbeing benefits.
*Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
*The chance to play a key role in modernising critical public sector services.
If you’re an experienced Oracle professional looking to combine technical leadership, people management and strategic service improvement within a large and complex environment, please get in touch.