DM_Oracler DBA
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About this Role
What you will do
- Administer and support production Oracle databases and associated operational activities.
- Analyse database and application performance bottlenecks, including scripts, code and user-generated queries that affect application performance
- Perform SQL and database performance tuning and support DML operations.
- Monitor databases using tools such as Oracle Enterprise Manager and Grafana.
- Contribute to proactive monitoring, alert tuning, dashboarding and log analysis using observability technologies such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk or Zabbix.
- Manage database user access and support security audits.Participate in auditing and SOX compliance activities.
- Support database upgrades and migrations, including integration with other relational database management systems.
- Support production databases and high-availability environments.Perform backup and recovery activities.
- Work closely with application teams to support database operations and resolve incidents.
- Use ticketing tools to manage operational requests and issues.
- Provide on-call support for high-priority database incidents.
- Develop and maintain UNIX and shell scripts to automate BAU operational and maintenance activities.
- Support jobs and batch processes at UNIX level, including tuning existing processes and creating new processes where required.
- Contribute to SRE practices, automation, reconciliation and continual service improvement.
- Support service stability, availability and operational optimisation.
Who you are
- You have 4–7 years of relevant experience, including at least four years in application database support operations.
- You have hands-on experience administering Oracle databases across multiple versions.
- You have practical knowledge of database administration and database architecture.
- You understand Oracle and non-Oracle database architectures.
- You have experience in database and SQL performance tuning.
- You understand database configuration and operational support.
- You are familiar with memory architecture, storage architecture and cluster architecture.
- You have experience administering production databases and understand high-availability approaches.
- You have experience with database upgrades and migrations.
- You understand backup and recovery processes.
- You have advanced UNIX knowledge and experience with shell scripting and at least one additional scripting language, such as Perl.
- You understand proactive monitoring, automation, reconciliation and continual service improvement.
- You have experience with, or an understanding of, observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk or Zabbix.
- You understand log analysis, alert tuning, dashboards and proactive monitoring.
- You have analytical, communication, stakeholder-management and technical-leadership skills.
- You hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- ITIL certification is desirable.
- Knowledge of the telecommunications industry would be beneficial.
Not a Perfect Fit?
What’s in it for you
Based on the scope described for this role, you will have opportunities to:
- Work with production Oracle database environments and business-critical operational services.
- Gain exposure to SRE practices and AI-driven optimisation initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with application teams across end-to-end operations.
- Contribute to automation and continual service improvement.
- Build experience across monitoring, observability, database reliability, security and service stability.
What skills you will learn
- Oracle database administration across multiple versions.
- Advanced SQL and database performance tuning.
- Database upgrades, migrations, backup, recovery and high availability.
- UNIX, shell scripting and operational automation.
- SRE and proactive service-management practices.
- Observability, log analysis, dashboards and alert optimisation.
- Security auditing and SOX compliance.
- Stakeholder collaboration and end-to-end operational problem-solving.
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