Lead Oracle Database Administrator

PRINCIPAL ORACLE DBA

• £555 per day via Umbrella
• Remote UK – Occasional travel may be required for workshops or meetings, but unlikely to be any regular travel.
• Long-term contract until February 2028
• Oracle, AWS & DevOps – help modernise critical government digital services

ABOUT THE CLIENT:

Our client is a major UK public sector organisation responsible for delivering essential digital services. Its technology teams are undertaking an ambitious modernisation programme, moving towards a true DevOps operating model with greater automation, improved monitoring and faster, more reliable delivery. Due to this transformation, they are looking for an experienced Principal Oracle DBA to join their specialist database team.

THE PRINCIPAL ORACLE DBA ROLE:

As a Principal Oracle DBA, you will work within a specialist DBA team supporting and modernising critical Oracle database environments hosted in AWS. You will provide technical leadership and guidance to Senior DBAs while helping drive the transition towards a more automated DevOps operating model.

You will be responsible for maintaining stable, secure and highly available databases while supporting upgrades, migrations, performance optimisation and automation. The environment supports a range of Oracle technologies, including Oracle E-Business Suite R12, SOA, WebLogic, Portal, IAM, OHS and APEX.

You will also contribute to CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring and alerting, scripting and continuous improvement across the database estate.

PRINCIPAL ORACLE DBA ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Expert-level Oracle DBA experience
• Strong AWS experience, particularly EC2, RDS, Lambda and S3
• Oracle 10g/11g/12c experience across Unix/Linux environments
• Expert Oracle SQL tuning – execution plans, indexes, hints and optimiser behaviour
• Strong PL/SQL application upgrade and migration experience
• Expert experience with Oracle E-Business Suite R12
• Experience with SOA, WebLogic, Portal and IAM
• Experience with EBS Concurrent Managers
• WebLogic clustering and JVM tuning
• Oracle installation, patching and upgrades
• RMAN and OEM experience
• Strong scripting/automation experience
• Experience creating and using AWS CloudFormation templates
• Strong CI/CD and continuous delivery/deployment experience
• Practitioner-level Git experience
• Agile product delivery experience
• Excellent mentoring, coaching and knowledge-transfer skills

Desirable:

• Flyway or similar database version-control tooling
• Strong DevOps transformation experience
• Experience automating database administration and operational processes

TO BE CONSIDERED:

Please either apply through this advert or emailing me directly via ryan.baker@searchability.com. For further information please call me: 07719051875. By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.