Description
Oracle Database Engineer
One of our leading clients is looking for 3 Oracle Database Engineers. The Oracle Database Engineers will focus on developing automation solutions rather than on database operations. You will have strong knowledge and practical experience of using Oracle Enterprise Manager for far more than just a monitoring solution.
The Oracle Database Engineers will be responsible for:
- As part of a Team you will sets the direction and strategy for Oracle Database usage in one of the largest, global, enterprise users of Oracle technologies.
- You will join a project embarking on the standardisation and automation of Oracle Database activities in the
Bank with comprehensive exposure to the latest Oracle technologies and tools, including Exadata and ODA, OEM 12c and Oracle RAC on the latest versions. The project is building the infrastructure and automation to act as the hosting platform on which the Bank will consolidate many thousands of Oracle installations into a standardised, industrialised, shared Service.
- Your role in Database Engineering will be to collaborate with around fifteen, global, senior, Oracle professional engineers. You will be producing all the automation and integration required to use Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 12c to power the entire Oracle estate of databases. CLIENT has a sharp focus on database security and the automation that we produce needs to operate in a highly controlled environment where audit and compliance and security are key.
- You will take shared ownership of an exciting OEM 12c implementation designed to fully power day to day database Operations. Install, provision, patch, backup, manage, monitor, secure all primarily achieved through OEM.
- You will gain exposure to a massive, shared service implementation of Oracle on Oracle Exadata, using RAC and DataGuard and OID.
The Oracle Database Engineer will ideally have the following:
- 5 years plus solid, enterprise DBA experience
- 3 years minimum of Oracle RAC and Dataguard in mission critical database environments
- Knowledge of Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture standards and strategies
- A good level of Unix Shell Scripting
- Oracle PL/script SQL development
- Solid Unix/Linux skills
Nice to have but not mandatory:
- Experience with software development methodologies and tools:
- Source code control eg subversion
- Issue tracking and management eg JIRA
- Release management
- Test automation
- Agile and Waterfall
- Exposure to multi-tenant, shared-service Oracle environments is highly desirable
- Exposure to Cloud environments is highly desirable
- Experience with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Tool:
- Lifecycle Management Pack for Patching and provisioning
- Understanding of OEM configuration and architecture for HA/DR
- Exposure to OEM's EMCLI interface
- Experience with HP Tools:
- Exposure to HP DMA
If this is of interest and you are qualified, please send in your latest CV for immediate consideration.