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Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year
Requirements: Strong Oracle DBA experience across 12c, 18c, 19c and 23ai, including installation, configuration and full lifecycle managementSolid grounding in Exadata Infrastructure, ideally including Autonomous Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC)Hands-on experience building, administering, troubleshooting and tuning Oracle RAC and Clusterware (CRS)Working knowledge of PDB/CDB multi-tenant architectureStrong automation and scripting ability, including Ansible playbooks and Bash/KSH or PythonProven Oracle performance tuning experience at SQL, instance and system levelSolid backup and recovery experience with RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump and migration workExperience administering Oracle ASM and Data Guard for high availability and disaster recoveryDesirable: Oracle Certified Master (OCM)Desirable: Oracle APEX experienceDesirable: Java development knowledgeDesirable: Git or Stash version control experienceDesirable: Understanding of server architecture, enterprise storage, networking and firewall conceptsDesirable: Familiarity with ITIL and formal service management processes Responsibilities: Build automation tooling and platform solutions using Ansible and scripting to reduce manual work across the database estateAdminister and tune Oracle RAC (11gR2–19c) and Clusterware, including builds, troubleshooting and ongoing optimisationOwn performance tuning at SQL, instance and system level across production environmentsDesign and manage backup and recovery using RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump and established migration methodologiesAdminister Oracle ASM and Data Guard to support high availability and disaster recoveryManage multi-tenant architecture, including PDB and CDB design and administrationProvide L3 support across Oracle Database and Exadata Cloud environments, including root cause analysis and permanent fixesAdvise application teams on database performance, architecture and product selectionContribute to wider platform resilience and performance initiatives Technologies: ApexAnsibleBashCloudFirewallGitSupportITILJavaOraclePythonSQL More:
We have partnered with a globally established organisation to recruit an experienced Oracle Database Engineer for its database and platform engineering team. This hands-on role spans Oracle administration, automation and performance engineering across large-scale Exadata and cloud environments, including Autonomous Exadata Cloud@Customer. It offers the opportunity to move beyond routine administration into platform engineering, automation, large-scale tuning and ownership of multi-tenant database architecture across mission-critical systems. The position is permanent, full time at 40 hours per week, based in Central London with three days onsite each week. Salary is up to £90,000, plus bonus and benefits.
last updated 40 week of 2026