Oracle Database Administrator

Introduction
In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM CIC is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
• Monitoring and administering Oracle databases
• Provide daily/weekly reporting on availability capacity and demand management
• Work on L2 and L3 incidents and report progress
• Update systems with progress on incidents
• Work with third parties to resolve incidents
• Update config management and knowledge management databases
• Support path to live release management and deployment

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Creates and maintains Oracle databases and Oracle Enterprise Applications like but not limited to EBusiness Peoplesoft JDEdwards Hyperion OBIEE Weblogic and Retek.
• Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the applications and databases.
• Is aware and has experience on various tools needed to manage and administrate Oracle applications and databases.
• 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.
• Implements and enforces security for all of the Oracle Applications.
• 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.
• Troubleshoots problems regarding the databases applications and administration tools often interacting with Oracle for high impact / severity issues.
• Understands technology relationships and best practices required for highly available infrastructure load balancing application clusters access management and application deploy processes.

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.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Installation and Upgrade experience of EBS (R12.2) and Database (11g & 19c) on AIX.
• Expert knowledge of EBS 12.2 Online patching and Cloning techniques .
• Expert knowledge of RMAN and Oracle DataGuard .
• Extensive experience in managing and implementing best practice configuration management techniques for Enterprise EBS Systems .
• Experience in troubleshooting performance issues at the Application and Database layers.
• Experience of WebLogic SOA & Endeca.