Data Base Administrator

Job description

Are you looking for a Database Administrator role with the opportunity to learn and develop?

Sopra Steria are currently recruiting for a Database Administrator to join a busy team supporting key public sector clients. This is very much a learning and development opportunity for someone with some existing experience working in the data sphere looking to grow their skillset and become a fully-fledged DBA. From a technical perspective this role will be working predominantly in patching on Oracle E-Business Systems with scope in the future to work on Oracle Fusion.
This role is home based with very occasional travel to one of our UK hubs.

Due to the sensitivity of the projects this role will be working on, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible for Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.

What you'll be doing:

• Selecting the patches needed for multiple products (Exadata/GRID/DB/E-Business/Weblogic/JAVA/OPA/OHS/APEX)
• Patch Analysis to include the order of applying patches, all the pre-requisite and post requisite patches and configuration steps needed for fellow DBAs to follow
• Liaise with other teams (payroll, functional, developers) when additional actions are required during the patch process
• Download and apply the patches to systems and produce DBA instruction, so an experienced DBA can follow without having to do any further research on MoS.
• Investigate patch errors or discrepancies and understand how to interrogate log files, Alert log in the database
• Liaise with Testing team, PMs, management when required
• Liaise with other DBAs when required

What you'll bring:

• Comfortable with My Oracle Support, how to plough through their documentation. Be prepared to ask for help too.
• Understanding and exposure to Oracle GRID/Database RDBMS 19C
• Exadata, RAC (multiple database and Apps servers per system) - desired but not totally necessary
• CDB/PDB and Dual FS understanding (Container Database & Pluggable Database and dual file system)
• Exposure to applying patches especially via ADOP on E-Business systems

If you're interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Location: Home Based
Security Clearance: DV
Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Up to £45,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.