Database Administrator (Oracle / Cloud) – Financial Services

Role Overview

We are hiring an experienced Database Administrator to support the resilience, performance, and availability of a mission-critical multi-platform database environment. This role sits within a global team and focuses on database administration, optimisation, support, and continuous improvement across development, testing, and production.

You will play a key role in performance tuning, high availability, incident support, patching, automation, and platform reliability within a 24/7 environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Administer and support Oracle Exadata / Oracle database platforms in a high-availability environment.
2. Manage database performance, capacity planning, tuning, backup/recovery, and failover readiness.
3. Deliver patching, upgrades, security hardening, and lifecycle management .
4. Provide L2/L3 production support , troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
5. Partner with development, infrastructure, and support teams to ensure reliable database services.
6. Contribute to monitoring, automation, observability, and operational tooling improvements.
7. Support broader database technologies including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL platforms where required.
8. Maintain documentation, runbooks, and support compliance and change management standards.

Required

1. Strong experience as an Oracle DBA supporting critical production systems.
2. Expertise in Oracle Exadata, RAC, Data Guard, RMAN , and related technologies.
3. Deep knowledge of Oracle performance tuning , including SQL tuning and diagnostic tools (AWR/ASH/ADDM).
4. Experience with backup/recovery, upgrades, patching, and high availability architectures .
5. Linux/Unix administration and shell scripting skills.
6. Experience working in regulated or highly controlled environments .

Preferred

1. Exposure to OCI and cloud database services .
2. Experience with Terraform, Ansible, automation , and monitoring tools.
3. Knowledge of multiple database platforms beyond Oracle.
4. Background in financial services or other low-latency, high-availability environments is advantageous.

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