Oracle DBA

Salary: £55,000 - 55,000 per year

Requirements:

• Oracle Database Administration experience, with Oracle 19c or later preferred
• Strong knowledge of backup and recovery, performance tuning, monitoring, security and high availability
• Experience administering Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Experience administering Oracle WebLogic
• Linux administration and shell scripting experience
• Experience with enterprise backup, recovery and data protection
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with technical and business teams
• Desirable: experience with Oracle Engineered Systems or similar enterprise platforms
• Desirable: experience in virtualised or private cloud environments
• Desirable: experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions
• Desirable: experience automating database administration through scripting and operational tooling

Responsibilities:

• Monitor database health, availability, capacity and performance using proactive alerting and trend analysis
• Administer Oracle databases and Linux platforms to maintain secure and efficient operations
• Manage backups, restores, migrations and environment refreshes, including Oracle APEX environments
• Develop and test backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Perform performance tuning, capacity planning and optimisation of Oracle databases
• Support database patching, upgrades and lifecycle management
• Maintain security, compliance and auditability across database environments
• Automate routine administration tasks through scripting and tooling
• Work closely with development and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable database services
• Participate in planned out-of-hours maintenance when required

Technologies:

• Apex
• Cloud
• Support
• Linux
• Oracle
• Security

More:

We are a growing organisation based in Northwich, Cheshire, working in a hybrid model with three days per week in the office after an initial three-month period on-site five days a week. We have a strong reputation for investing in our people and technology, and we offer a collaborative, forward-thinking environment where you can take ownership of a modern Oracle estate supporting business-critical systems. We are recognised for our commitment to employee development, collaboration and career progression, and we provide a competitive salary, discretionary annual performance bonus, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays increasing with service, a 10% non-contributory pension, a company-funded Employee Assistance Programme, death-in-service benefit, and ongoing training, mentoring and career development opportunities.

last updated 30 week of 2026