Oracle Database Administrator

Introduction

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We Offer

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
  
  

Your Role And Responsibilities

We are seeking a motivated Entry-Level Oracle Enterprise Applications Application Database Administrator to join our technology operations team. In this role, you will assist in managing and maintaining Oracle databases and applications such as E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, and Weblogic. You will gain hands-on experience in capacity planning, backup and recovery, security enforcement, and patch management. Guided by senior DBAs, you will learn about online patching, cloning techniques, and performance troubleshooting across application and database layers. You will also help with migrations, load balancing, and cluster management to support highly available infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in enterprise-scale Oracle systems while contributing to mission-critical operations.

Responsibilities

• Assist in managing Oracle databases and applications including EBS, Peoplesoft, and Weblogic.
• Support backup and recovery activities using RMAN.
• Help apply security patches and updates.
• Participate in migrations and cloning exercises.
• Assist in monitoring system performance and availability.
  
  

Preferred Education

None

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Installation and Upgrade experience of EBS (R12.2) and Database (11g & 19c) on AIX
• Expert knowledge of EBS 12.2 Online patching and Cloning techniques
• Expert knowledge of RMAN and Oracle DataGuard
• Extensive experience in managing and implementing best practice configuration management techniques for
• Enterprise EBS Systems
• Experience in troubleshooting performance issues at the Application and Database layers. Experience of WebLogic SOA & Endeca.
• Strong attention to detail and willingness to learn infrastructure best practices.
• Ability to follow structured operational procedures.
• Extensive experience in managing and implementing best practice configuration management techniques for
• Enterprise EBS Systems .
• Experience in troubleshooting performance issues at the Application and Database layers.
• Troubleshooting performance issues at the Application and Database layers.
• Configuration Management
• Update and produce system documentation relating to any changes applied
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Exposure to AIX operating system environments.
• Familiarity with WebLogic and SOA concepts.
• Experience with basic performance troubleshooting.
• Awareness of load balancing and clustering principles.