Oracle Dba/Database Administrator - LEEDS - GBP50K to GBP55K

Oracle Dba/Database Administrator - LEEDS - GBP50K to GBP55K

GBP50K to GBP55K plus 10% bonus

Transition Partners are recruiting for a Oracle DBA/Database Administrator for a market leading company in Leeds to work in their Data Team. They are offering an extremely exciting opportunity to work for one of the UK's Number 1 market leader within their Industry, they are a forward thinking, innovative company leading the way into the Leeds Technology Innovation Hub.

Key skills and experience required:

• Previous Oracle DBA experience in a production environment
• Worked in a Unix and/or Linux environment
• Writing/debugging/testing and tuning SQL and PL/SQL
• Database, application and operating system performance tuning and monitoring
• Usage and deployment of Oracle technologies, ASM, 12c Cloud Control, RMAN, Partitioning, Data Guard, etc.) in a production environment
• Knowledge of Oracle ETL processes and data warehouse maintenance operations desirable
• Agile
• Experience of database modelling, using modelling tools and understanding of the development life cycle
• Knowledge of NoSQL/Cassandra/Hadoop desirable

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage database issues and problems within Oracle and DB2 database platforms (DB2 desirable)
• Act as a source of database knowledge, to advise and direct colleagues in the Data Services Team, Developers and the Service delivery team in this technology
• Ability to work within a team environment and communicate effectively with others
• Provide accurate and timely information to the Project Manager/Team Leader(s) on own work schedule
• Help to define and adhere to appropriate database standards
• Perform pro-active database health monitoring/diagnostics and able to implement monitoring, auditing and alert systems for Oracle databases
• Perform capacity planning exercises to properly identify required hardware, software, database configuration/architecture necessary to support application needs
• On call rota support (1 week in 7 approx.)

As well as an interesting and challenging role for the right DBA, this is a unique opportunity to join a large organisation with a reputation for a great work culture and environment, and an extensive benefits package.

Please apply with your CV ASAP