DBA (Oracle)
Newcastle (Tyne and Wear) IT development
Job description
· Job Description:
Database Administrator / DBA (Oracle)
Cobalt Business Park, Newcastle
Salary:- Competitive salary and benefits package
About DXC
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology has over 130,000 members of staff, serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries The company’s extensive partner alliance and independent status allows us to build strong vendor relationships.
Note: This job description describes the general nature of the duties and requirements of the job.It is not intended to be an exhaustive list or to limit the scope of any potential assignments or client engagement. DXC is an Equal Opportunity Employer We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees
Role Purpose:
The role will have you focused on deploying, operating and maintaining both internal and client databases from small development systems through to mission critical production systems.
You'll find yourself supporting production databases with exposure to a number of Oracle database versions. You'll be involved heavily with a variety of DBA tasks such as; backup and recovery, patching, monitoring, systems tuning and capacity management with a working knowledge of more advanced features such as RAC, ASM and dataguard replication.
You will be working within a small team of specialist DBA's within our Newcastle regional delivery centre. You'll work collaboratively across all technology groups to play a key part in our businesses success.
Responsibilities as the Oracle DBA:
· Monitor database performance and where applicable, suggest and implement improvements
· Support and maintain the Oracle databases across dev/test to production
· Take a proactive approach to database patching. Impact, test and apply Oracle database patches
· Database version upgrades
· Automation of repetitive administration and build tasks
Skills and Experience as the Oracle DBA:
· Database administration of versions 10g through to current versions
· Database patching
· Strong working knowledge of Oracle on Unix including best practices
· Real application Clusters (RAC)
· Dataguard – Physical and logical standby