Oracle Database Platform Engineer

4 days ago

London, United Kingdom McGregor Boyall Full time

**Specific responsibilities**

The specific responsibilities of the role include:

- Administering and managing the Oracle, MongoDB, InfluxDB and PostgreSQL Database estate.
- Working with peers in the other technology teams to find the best solutions for the company.
- Show a willingness to learn about the technologies in this area.
- Ensure the rollout of a standards-based estate using relevant configuration management tools.
- Capacity planning of the Physical and virtual Database server estate.
- Ensuring high availability of the Infrastructure and minimising the duration and impact of any outages.
- Maintaining a consistently high level of service delivery for incidents, requests and changes.
- Providing database support and advice to other Infrastructure teams as well as developers and end users.
- Maintain database security standards across the database estate.
- Participate in an on-call support rota.

**Essential Experience**
- Willingness and ability to innovate.
- Good communication skills with end users and fellow IT staff members.
- Expertise in the design and deep knowledge of Oracle RDBMS 12c/18c/19c, MongoDB, InfluxDB and PostgreSQL infrastructure.
- Excellent performance tuning skills
- Working knowledge of continuous Integration or Configuration Management tools (e.g. Jenkins, Ansible, TeamCity, Octopus) etc.
- Strong scripting skills (preferably Bash, PL/SQL, Python)
- Docker containerisation design and architecture to provision databases
- Good working knowledge of Red Hat, CentOS and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience of designing, configuring Data-Guard, RMAN, Stolon etc.
- Experience and ability to demonstrate performance diagnosis and tuning techniques in the whole working stack, Database internals, OS, Storage and Networks
- Proven ability to automate builds and repetitive tasks
- Flexibility to broaden and develop skills in any area as required.
- The ability to prioritise projects and tasks.

**Desirable Experience**
- At least 5 years Oracle database administration and engineering experience.
- Exposure to alternative Open-source RDBMS technologies and NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc.
- Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM environment
- Experience with offsite cloud offerings and installations.
- Development and interpretation of systematic performance monitoring and metrics
- A desire to learn and understand more about the Business environment in which you work.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

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