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Oracle Database Administrator Snodland, England

South East Water

Full Time Snodland, England 45000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Are you experienced in Oracle Database Administration?

Are you familiar with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? Then you’ll want to read on…

We want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.

You’ll take up this pivotal role to ensure that our databases maintain a highly available and consistent service.

You’re an Oracle DBA, with 3 years’ experience working with on premise infrastructure and Oracle Cloud. You’ll work closely with a Senior DBA to ensure the performance, integrity and security of our databases. You find that we’re a supportive, friendly and collaborative team that’s always open to new ideas.

This role will be based at our office in Snodland, Kent with hybrid working. More office presence will be required during the first 4-6 months as you complete your induction.

This role has great career progression prospects, with the opportunity to contribute to delivering a number of highly strategic projects – such as cloud migration, artificial intelligence implementation and the creation of data lakes.

About South East Water

You may not have considered a career with South East Water before. Here’s your chance to make a difference.

We’re here to provide today’s public water service and create tomorrow’s water supply solutions, fairly and responsibly, working with others to help society and the environment to thrive.

We deliver 520 million litres of water through 9,000 miles of pipes every day. We draw water from more than 250 boreholes, 6 rivers and 6 reservoirs and we have 83 treatment works to ensure the water we supply is of the highest quality. And, we’re investing £433 million into new resources and innovations during 2020-2025.

What will you mainly deliver?

Manage Oracle databases environments from development environments to mission-critical production systems.
Configure and maintain database servers and processes.
Monitor system health and performance to ensure high levels of performance, availability and security.
Apply best practice to ensure deployment and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations.
Independently analyse, solve and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
Assist developers with complex query tuning and production issue resolution.
Provide out of hours support for critical production systems.
Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.

What do you bring to the role?

This is a Hybrid role with 1-2 days per week required in the office. There is also the requirement to be available out of hours. Therefore, you'll need to live within a commutable distance to our office in Snodland, Kent.
Solid Oracle Database Administration experience
Experienced in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Experienced in backups, restores and recovery models
Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for and Oracle.
Experience working in cloud environments (Azure, OCI, GCP and/or AWS) would be advantageous.
You must have permission to work in the UK to start employment with us.

What you can expect from us?

Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution
25 days holiday entitlement
Cycle to work scheme
Health care plan
Life assurance
Wellbeing related benefits

Everyone needs water, South East Water welcomes everyone

We know the communities we serve are diverse. We recognise creativity comes from diversity not similarity. That’s why we are enthusiastic about creating inclusion across age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and identity. You will experience our dedication to equal opportunities and fair treatment for all: through your recruitment, employment and career progression with South East Water.

What can you expect from your recruitment?

Please upload a CV via our careers website
We are currently unable to provide sponsorship for this vacancy.
You’re required to have the right to work in the UK at the point of starting employment with us.
You will be asked to complete satisfactory DBS, identity and employment referencing checks as part of receiving your employment offer from South East Water.

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, apply now!

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