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Role: Tech Specialist - Oracle Administrator
Location: Any SCC office - Birmingham/London/Leeds/Manchester (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: £45,000 - £52,000 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Please note: This role requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain NPPV clearance. Applicants must be eligible to undergo the relevant screening and vetting process.
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role Purpose
As an Oracle DBA, you will provide technical leadership in delivering, supporting and continuously improving SCC's enterprise Oracle Database services supporting business-critical applications for its customers.
Working closely with Infrastructure, Application, Security and Project teams, you will help ensure Oracle Database platforms remain highly available, resilient, performant and secure and while contributing to modernization, automation and operational excellence initiatives
Security Clearance or eligibility to get it will be required for this role!
Key Responsibilities
- OWN the delivery, operation and continuous improvement of enterprise Oracle Database services across production and non-production environments.
- LEAD the technical resolution of complex Oracle Database incidents, service requests and problem investigations, ensuring effective root cause analysis and permanent resolution.
- LEAD Oracle Database lifecycle activities, including implementation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migrations, maintenance and decommissioning.
- ENSURE Oracle Database platforms consistently meet agreed service levels for availability, resilience, performance, recoverability and security.
- DESIGN, IMPLEMENT AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE Oracle high availability, disaster recovery, replication and database security solutions.
- LEAD Oracle Database technical delivery for infrastructure and application initiatives.
- DRIVE automation, standardisation and operational excellence across Oracle Database services.
- DEFINE, MAINTAIN AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE Oracle Database standards, operational procedures and technical documentation.
- COLLABORATE with Infrastructure, Backup, Monitoring, Application, Security and Project teams to deliver scalable, resilient and secure Oracle Database services.
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Skills And Experience
- Extensive experience administering large-scale enterprise Oracle Database environments.
- Expert knowledge of Oracle Database architecture, administration and troubleshooting.
- Proven experience supporting highly available, mission-critical production systems.
- Strong expertise across Oracle high availability, disaster recovery, database security and replication technologies.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
- Experience working within ITIL-based service management environments.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and technical documentation skills.
- Ability to provide technical leadership while working collaboratively across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, operational excellence and customer-focused service delivery.
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About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.
We are an equal opportunities employer
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
Diversity & Inclusion at SCC - https://www.scc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
Sustainability at SCC - https://www.scc.com/sustainability-at-scc/
Life at SCC - https://www.linkedin.com/company/scc/life
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