We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Preston to assist with the appointment of a Senior Oracle DBA, on a 3 -month contract, likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration. Rate of Pay : £22.51 - £27.84 per hour Summary: We are looking for an experienced Oracle OCI Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform. LCC has completed Phase 1 of a project to move Legacy systems into OCI and are now seeking to develop the platform in Phase 2. You will have detailed knowledge of managing, monitoring and maintaining databases within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, patching and upgrades as well as backup and recovery, cloning and maximum availability. Responsibilities: contribute to the ongoing development of the OCI platform provide support to in-house DBA Team provide Oracle database administration expertise software installation, patching and upgrades, backup, recovery and ensuring maximum service availability of the OCI database estate security, hardening, compliance, risk and capacity management of the database estate on the OCI platform undertake performance diagnostics & tuning Experience: Cloud Administration including development of dashboards, compliance Developing documentation and runbooks to test and implement DBA processes Implementing robust OCI database security measures Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI Proven cloning experience within multi-tenant databases in OCI Experience of OCI management, utilising dashboards, OCI event and monitoring service, database system monitoring (OEM), administration, compliance and capacity planning Mentoring junior DBAs In-depth knowledge of Oracle Database (version 19c Enterprise Edition) and associated technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Substantial experience of designing and implementing highly available, performant and secure database solutions that are aligned to availability and disaster recovery strategies. Experience of Data Guard Experience of Oracle upgrades and database migrations. Experience of Linux operating system and Oracle RU patching in OCI. Oracle Weblogic Please note: You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice. You should have right to work in U.K This role requires an basic DBS Disclaimer : Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. Important : We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. RQ1249225