Oracle DBA
- 6 months
- Inside IR35
- SC/DV required
- Remote working
- Adhoc travel to customer sites

* As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs.
* This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services.
* A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.
* As an Advisory Systems Engineer, you are expected to be an expert member of the problem-solving/avoidance team and be highly skilled in solving extremely complex (often previously unknown), critical customer issues.
* Performing the assigned duties with a high level of autonomy and reporting to management on customer status and technical managers on a regular basis, you will be expected to work with very limited guidance from management.
* Further, the Advisory Systems Engineer is sought by customers and employees to provide expert technical advice.
* Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.
* Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization.
* Because of substantial customer interfacing, a demonstrated ability to work with customers on an independent basis with exceptional communication skills, while consistently achieving the absolute highest levels of customer satisfaction.
* Both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience 8 years related experience prior to taking this position.
* In addition, experience with Oracle's core products, applications, and tools.

Experience:
* At least 6-10 years' hands-on experience in working with Oracle Database and Infrastructure products, in particular Oracle Engineered Systems including Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or comparable platforms
* Strong proven Oracle DBA experience are a prerequisite
* Advanced OS Administration skills with Unix / Linux are essential, additional Solaris, Solaris-Cluster and Windows skills are a plus
* Hands-on experience with one or more Oracle Cloud / Platform and Infrastructure Components, preferably Oracle Engineered Systems (Exadata, ODA), Oracle Linux, Oracle Secure Backup (OSB), Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Grid Infrastructure, Enterprise Manager OEM, Grid Control, Oracle VM, Oracle Directory Server, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) public Cloud or Cloud at Customer deployments
* Experience in installation, configuration, operation and administration of Oracle Infrastructure Platform products, preferably Exadata/ODA is a benefit
* Solid Skills in related products and technologies would be an advantage: Network switches, Networks protocols, Network Security (firewalls), load balancer, Java, xml, SQL, shell scripting
* Experience with ZFS Storage appliance, ZFS Storage-Pool, Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management) is an additional plus

To be considered, please send through an updated CV.


Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

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