Version 1 Newcastle upon Tyne

Oracle Database Administrator

Department: Digital, Data and Cloud

Recruiter

Ashley Billington

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 26 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 has several strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems and Snowflake. We’re also an award-winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1.

We’ve been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023.

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We’re focused on our core values; using these we’ve seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally.

  • UK & Ireland’s premier Oracle, Microsoft & AWS partner  
  • Market leader in Oracle ERP and Cloud Applications  
  • Consulting, implementation, and support services  
  • 3200+ strong, €347m/£302m revenue business  
  • ERP Partner of the Year  
Job Description

Oracle Database Administrator

YOU MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR SC CLEARANCE

TO BE ELIGIBLE, YOU MUST HAVE LIVED WITHIN THE UK FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS.

YOU MUST BE BASED WITHIN 50 MILES OF EDINBURGH, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER, NEWCASTLE OR BELFAST 

THIS IS A REMOTE BASED ROLE WITH VERY OCCASIONAL TRAVEL TO CLIENT SITES AND OFFICE. 

Would you like the opportunity to work on enterprise migrations at scale and leverage automation?

How about been given the exposure to multi-cloud (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCP) and a wide range of databases (Oracle, SQL), including opensource databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)?

Here at Version 1, we are currently in the market for experienced Oracle Database Administrator to join our growing Digital, Data & Cloud Practice.

You will have the opportunity to work with the latest technology and worked on projects across a multiplicity of sectors and industries.

Job Description

You will be:

  • Creating and developing the inventory, and proving procedures, looking at pre-requisites, training and identifying the migration approach for migrations to be conducted.
  • Overseeing full migration lifecycle activities including, but not limited to detailed analysis, design, development, test, user acceptance test support and production implementation.
  • Identifying and correcting performance issues, reviewing systems and error logs, storage management, backups, job monitoring, optimization efforts, data integrity analysis and resolving database contention issues.
  • Overseeing the migration of pre-production and production database services.
  • Leading the application remediation as and when required and overseeing the migration of development and/or system test database services.
Qualifications

You will have:

  • Expertise as an Oracle DBA
  • Technical expertise within:
    • Oracle Database 12c upwards (Essential).
    • OEM – Oracle Enterprise Manager (Essential)
    • Cloud Migration (Essential)
    • Public Cloud (Essential)
    • Exadata (Desirable)
    • OCI/Azure/AWS (Desirable)
    • Fusion Middleware (Desirable)
  • Expertise within Monitoring, Alerting and Performance Tuning.
  • Expertise within technical discovery, assessment, and migrations.
  • Consultancy/Client facing expertise skills.
Additional Information

Why Version 1?

  • Quarterly performance related profit share (Paid the last 55 quarters)
  • Career Progression
  • Generous Holiday Allowance
  • Employee Discount Scheme - available online and in a wide range of stores
  • Flexible and Remote working options
  • Lunchtime activities including but not limited to fitness, yoga, financial advice and wellbeing.
  • Pension
  • Private Healthcare Cover
  • Life Assurance
  • Offer incentives for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role.
  • Version 1 Excellence Awards (annual)
  • ‘Call-Out’: platform where colleagues grant you points that can be exchanged for gifts.
  • Fostering several Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging schemes
  • And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

 

This is an opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing ERP Consultancies in Ireland & the UK. 

This is a full-time permanent role with some occasional client site travel.

Permanent applications ideally. Must have work permit due to timeframes.  

We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at: 


https://www.version1.com/careers/culture/

Please note: We have an internal recruitment team and does not accept agency candidates. If you want to join the team here at Version 1, get in touch with us directly!

Ashley Billington
Version 1 Talent Acquisition
Tel: +44 7840 839 370

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