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Oracle DBA / Unix Administrator
£40,000 - £45,000 | Hybrid role 2-3 days p/week in the office ideally
We’re working exclusively with a long-standing client of ours who has just started looking for an experienced Oracle DBA / Unix Administrator due to increased workload and client wins.
You'll join an established technical team, supporting customer Oracle database environments and the underlying Unix/Linux infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for keeping critical databases available, secure, and performing well, as well as dealing with day-to-day issues, backups, recovery, patching, and performance.
What you’ll be doing
- Carrying out daily checks across databases, backups, filesystems, and tablespaces, identifying errors and capacity issues
- Investigating failed services, runaway processes, and other database or system issues
- Managing Oracle backups and recovery using RMAN
- Performing expdp/impdp schema refreshes, including full and data-only refreshes
- Monitoring and tuning database performance, including SQL, long-running processes, and SGA/PGA
- Installing, patching, and upgrading Oracle database software and associated tools
- Managing database users, roles, privileges, and security policies
- Supporting database deployments and working with developers on schema design and troubleshooting
- Maintaining and supporting Unix/Linux environments alongside the Oracle database estate
- Automating routine tasks using Bash/Unix scripting and Windows batch scripting
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What we’re looking for
You’ll need solid commercial experience supporting enterprise Oracle databases, ideally Oracle 11g, 19c, or newer, combined with strong Unix/Linux administration skills.
Key technical experience includes:
- Strong Oracle DBA experience, including SQL and PL/SQL
- Oracle internal packages, including XDBADMIN
- RMAN backup and recovery
- Experience with Data Guard, RAC, and ASM
- Knowledge of Dbvisit would be useful
- Strong Linux/Unix skills, ideally Red Hat, Oracle Enterprise Linux, AIX, or Solaris
- Good understanding of Unix filesystems including ext3, ext4, and ZFS
- Logical volumes, mounting, and SMB
- SSH, SFTP, and Telnet
- SSH key generation and public key authentication
- Bash Shell scripting, including tools such as expect
- Windows batch scripting and PuTTY/Plink
- Experience with tools such as TOAD, SQL Developer, or DBeaver
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An Oracle OCP or similar database certification would be beneficial, although relevant commercial experience is more important.
This would suit someone who enjoys being hands-on with both Oracle databases and Unix/Linux environments, rather than a DBA role focused purely on database administration.
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