Dba jobs in United Kingdom

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Lead Oracle Database Administrator Developer, you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. A successful Lead DBA is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions to solve the most challenging business problems.

You will work developing solutions that excel at user experience, style, performance, reliability, and scalability to reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value.

Your primary responsibilities include:

1. Creates and maintains Oracle databases and Oracle Enterprise Applications like, but not limited to, EBusiness, Peoplesoft, JDEdwards, Hyperion, OBIEE, Weblogic, and Retek.
2. Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the applications and databases.
3. Is aware and has experience on various tools needed to manage and administrate Oracle applications and databases.
4. Performs ongoing tuning of the enterprise application environments, plans and implements backup and recovery, controls migrations of applications, database changes, configuration data changes, and menu changes.
5. Implements and enforces security for all of the Oracle Applications.
6. Enforces standards to ensure that all application design and code is produced with proper integrity, security, and performance. Identifies and analyzes necessary Oracle patches to keep applications up to date.
7. Troubleshoots problems regarding the databases, applications, and administration tools, often interacting with Oracle for high impact/severity issues.
8. Understands technology relationships and best practices required for highly available infrastructure, load balancing, application clusters, access management, and application deploy processes.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Oracle Database Administration, SQL, PL*SQL, Linux

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

About Business Unit

The Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is an innovative and exciting part of IBM. A fast-paced and dynamic business built to deliver high-value technical services to world-renowned clients. Every project has its own unique working environment - this enables our employees to build their experience, skill set, and network.

Other Relevant Job Details

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

Country/Region

United Kingdom

City / Township / Village

Cheltenham

IBM Business Group

Consulting

Primary job category

Technical Specialist

Employment Type

Full-Time

Contract type

Regular

Travel Required

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

(1387) IBM Service Centre UK Limited