Oracle Database Engineer - Hybrid

Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong Oracle DBA experience across 12c, 18c, 19c and 23ai, including installation, configuration and full lifecycle management
• Solid grounding in Exadata Infrastructure, ideally including Autonomous Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC)
• Hands-on experience building, administering, troubleshooting and tuning Oracle RAC and Clusterware (CRS)
• Working knowledge of PDB/CDB multi-tenant architecture
• Strong automation and scripting ability, including Ansible playbooks and Bash/KSH or Python
• Proven Oracle performance tuning experience at SQL, instance and system level
• Solid backup and recovery experience with RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump and migration work
• Experience administering Oracle ASM and Data Guard for high availability and disaster recovery
• Desirable: Oracle Certified Master (OCM)
• Desirable: Oracle APEX experience
• Desirable: Java development knowledge
• Desirable: Git or Stash version control experience
• Desirable: Understanding of server architecture, enterprise storage, networking and firewall concepts
• Desirable: Familiarity with ITIL and formal service management processes

Responsibilities:

• Build automation tooling and platform solutions using Ansible and scripting to reduce manual work across the database estate
• Administer and tune Oracle RAC (11gR2–19c) and Clusterware, including builds, troubleshooting and ongoing optimisation
• Own performance tuning at SQL, instance and system level across production environments
• Design and manage backup and recovery using RMAN, Flashback, Data Pump and established migration methodologies
• Administer Oracle ASM and Data Guard to support high availability and disaster recovery
• Manage multi-tenant architecture, including PDB and CDB design and administration
• Provide L3 support across Oracle Database and Exadata Cloud environments, including root cause analysis and permanent fixes
• Advise application teams on database performance, architecture and product selection
• Contribute to wider platform resilience and performance initiatives

Technologies:

• Apex
• Ansible
• Bash
• Cloud
• Firewall
• Git
• Support
• ITIL
• Java
• Oracle
• Python
• SQL

More:

We have partnered with a globally established organisation to recruit an experienced Oracle Database Engineer for its database and platform engineering team. This hands-on role spans Oracle administration, automation and performance engineering across large-scale Exadata and cloud environments, including Autonomous Exadata Cloud@Customer. It offers the opportunity to move beyond routine administration into platform engineering, automation, large-scale tuning and ownership of multi-tenant database architecture across mission-critical systems. The position is permanent, full time at 40 hours per week, based in Central London with three days onsite each week. Salary is up to £90,000, plus bonus and benefits.

last updated 40 week of 2026