Senior Oracle DBA at DWP, Blackpool/Remote, 4 Months, £Contract Rate

PLEASE NOTE: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation
• Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now
• Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society
• Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

We are looking for a Senior Oracle Database Administrator to join our HCS Database Platforms team who support critical services that directly affect the daily lives of UK citizens.

The Database Specialists and Engineers working within this highly motivated team ensure DWP services are designed, delivered into production and maintained, supported with robust delivery practices.

As a Senior Oracle DBA your main responsibilities will be:

• Responding to incidents and acting as an escalation point for complex service-related issues.
• Working with a team of Senior Engineers, providing expert advice, resolving complex problems and providing specialist technical support.
• Building, configuring, administering and supporting Oracle databases, including RAC, Data Guard and performance tuning.
• Leading technical discussions, influencing design decisions and clearly communicating complex technical concepts to stakeholders and team members.
• Supporting programme planning, managing dependencies and coordinating technical activities across large-scale initiatives such as HHT.
• Providing out-of-hours support for planned changes and urgent issues when required to maintain business continuity.
• Working collaboratively across teams, providing Oracle database expertise and supporting the resolution of incidents and technical issues.
• Sharing knowledge and expertise across the team to help maintain high service standards and build wider Oracle capability.

Essential:

• Strong Oracle DBA experience across Oracle 12c to 26ai, within Linux environments.
• Extensive experience of Oracle RAC, Data Guard, ASM, backup/recovery and performance tuning.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical Oracle databases, including Disaster Recovery.
• Knowledge of OEM and OCI Database Management.
• Experience of Oracle patching and upgrades, including 26ai.
• Experience with Oracle migration tools including Data Pump, GoldenGate and ZDM.
• Experience of Exadata and Base Database Service in OCI.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Multitenant, TDE and TLS.
• Experience of RMAN, with Rubrik experience.