Barclays UK
Oracle Site Reliability Engineer
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Join Barclays as an Oracle Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll leverage automation, engineering excellence, and incident management best practices to ensure our critical systems remain resilient, available, and ready to support millions of customers every day.
To be successful as an Oracle Site Reliability Engineer, you should have experience with:
- Good experience with Oracle Database administration concepts and PL/SQL development.
- Ability to write, optimize, troubleshoot, and maintain multi-layered SQL queries, stored procedures, packages, functions, and performance-critical database code.
- Good understanding of Oracle architecture, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and high availability solutions.
- Proficiency in Bash/Shell scripting and Python for automation, monitoring, operational tasks, and incident remediation.
- Experience developing automated solutions to improve reliability, reduce manual effort, and support operational excellence.
- Good experience with Git/Bitbucket for version control and source code management.
- Practical knowledge of Jira for Agile delivery, change management, defect tracking, and sprint execution.
- Understanding of CI/CD values and deployment processes for database changes.
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Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Experience with Ansible for configuration management, database deployment automation, and operational runbook automation.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Oracle Enterprise Manager, Splunk, Elastic, Observe, Grafana, Prometheus).
- Ability to perform root cause evaluation, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, ASM, and disaster recovery architectures.
- Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure) and modern SRE practices such as reliability engineering, capacity planning, and service resilience.
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The location of your role is Knutsford.
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