Principal Oracle DBA

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🌐 Colombia, United Kingdom – Remote

🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £416 / year

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HelloKindred

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Recruitment • Marketing

HelloKindred is a global provider of marketing, creative, and digital talent, offering services that include both short and long-term contracts as well as direct hires. The company specializes in connecting businesses with creative and innovative talent through its vast pool of skilled professionals. HelloKindred emphasizes efficiency and cost-effectiveness in scaling global marketing efforts, offering both onshore and offshore services that enhance teams with design, content creation, and digital assets. By understanding client needs and fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, HelloKindred delivers exceptional results through flexible staffing solutions tailored to modern business challenges.

📋 Description

• Lead Oracle database administration and modernisation activities within a multidisciplinary DBA team • Guide and support Senior DBAs across database administration, troubleshooting, and operational activities • Drive adoption of true DevOps practices across DBA operations • Automate operational and administrative database tasks through scripting and infrastructure-as-code approaches • Establish and maintain continuous delivery and deployment pipelines • Upgrade and migrate PL/SQL-based applications • Administer and maintain Oracle databases across Unix/Linux environments • Perform Oracle SQL tuning using execution plans, indexes, hints, and legacy optimiser behaviour knowledge • Design and maintain schemas and data models within a legacy ERP context • Install, patch, and upgrade Oracle databases • Manage RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager activities • Support Oracle E-Business Suite R12 environments • Administer and troubleshoot SOA, WebLogic, Portal, and IAM environments • Manage EBS concurrent managers • Configure WebLogic clustering and perform JVM tuning • Create and utilise AWS CloudFormation templates to automate AWS image creation • Apply Git and version-control practices within database development and delivery • Implement improved database monitoring and alerting capabilities • Collaborate within Agile product delivery teams • Mentor, coach, and transfer technical knowledge to DBA team members • Promote continuous improvement, effective troubleshooting, and operational stability • Support the Legal Aid Agency's digital-service modernisation through stable, secure, change-ready databases

🎯 Requirements

• Expert experience with AWS Cloud services, including EC2, RDS, Lambda, and S3 • Expert experience setting up and maintaining continuous delivery and deployment pipelines • Expert experience upgrading and migrating PL/SQL-based applications • Strong experience with Oracle Database versions 10g, 11g, and 12c on Unix/Linux • Expert experience in Oracle SQL tuning, including execution plans, indexes, hints, and legacy optimiser quirks • Expert experience with schema design and data modelling in a legacy ERP context • Experience with Oracle database installation, patching, and upgrades • Practitioner-level experience with RMAN and OEM • Expert experience with Oracle E-Business Suite R12 • Expert experience with SOA, WebLogic, Portal, and IAM • Expert experience with EBS concurrent managers • Experience with WebLogic clustering and JVM tuning • Experience automating administrative tasks through scripting • Practitioner-level knowledge of Git • Ability to create and utilise AWS CloudFormation templates to automate AWS image creation • Practitioner-level experience working within Agile product delivery teams • Excellent mentoring, coaching, and skills transfer capabilities • Strong troubleshooting skills and a mindset of continuous improvement • Adaptability, teamwork, passion for learning, and problem-solving • Experience with database version control tools such as Flyway or similar is desirable • Must be able to obtain Ministry of Justice SC Clearance • Must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without employer sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work setup • Occasional travel for workshops or meetings may be required, but regular travel is unlikely