| Employment Type | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Location | London Central, Central London |
| Industry Sector | IT |
| Start Date | Immediate |
| Salary/Rate | 50k to 60k per annum |
| Reference | TB2214 |
| Date Advertised | 03-06-2008 - 22:28 |
Our client, the UK's leading online Bingo developer/operator, is looking for a highly skilled Oracle DBA, Oracle Database Administrator, to join their growing and successful team. On offer is a position within a 24/7, mission critical environment where you will operate with a high degree of autonomy with plenty of opportunity to develop technical skills. You will need to be a self-starter with good communication skills and will be expected to take ownership of and project manage your own work.
Our client, the UK's leading online Bingo developer/operator, is looking for a highly skilled Oracle DBA, Oracle Database Administrator, to join their growing and successful team. On offer is a position within a 24/7, mission critical environment where you will operate with a high degree of autonomy with plenty of opportunity to develop technical skills. You will need to be a self-starter with good communication skills and will be expected to take ownership of and project manage your own work.
Key Responsibilities/Duties
- Day to day support of the production and pre-production database environment
- Planning and implementing application upgrade
- Provide out of hours / weekend DBA support as and when required
- Performing database upgrades and database software installations
- Assisting other DBAs in the team to build and scale databases for growth, security, and resilience
- Assisting the development and testing teams in the rollout of scheduled releases
Mandatory skills and experience
- Extensive production Oracle DBA experience (ideally to include Oracle 9i & 10g)
- Experience of SQL, PL/SQL and shell scripting
- Practical use and implementation of database monitoring tools
- Backup & recovery technologies (RMAN, Dataguard, Veritas)
Highly desirable skills and experience
- Experience of Oracle RAC
Desirable skills and experience
- Oracle certification ie OCP or OCA
- Hands on support of a high volume, highly transactional, on line, 24/7 * 365 systems in a financial, telecoms, Internet based trading or online gaming environment
- Thorough and in depth technical knowledge of Oracle backup and recovery processes
- Experience of cluster technologies
- OEM
- Experience in generating ad hoc and bespoke reports for end users
- Implementation and maintenance of failover and Disaster Recovery procedures
- Database performance analysis and tuning Statspack
