Oracle DBA Contractor – 6 months contract (inside IR35) – Hybrid in Central Edinburgh
Evolve IT Recruitment is working with a highly respected financial services organisation seeking an experienced Oracle DBA to join a critical technology function supporting large-scale, business-critical platforms. This is a hands-on role where you’ll take ownership of core Oracle environments, ensuring performance, stability, and security across a complex hybrid estate spanning on-prem and cloud. You’ll be joining a team at the centre of key technology initiatives, including cloud adoption, platform modernisation, and DevOps-driven database delivery.
What you’ll be doing
- Managing and optimising enterprise Oracle database platforms
- Ensuring availability, resilience, and performance of production systems
- Delivering upgrades, patching, backup and recovery (RMAN) and tuning
- Supporting advanced Oracle technologies including Data Guard, RAC and OEM
- Contributing to cloud transformation projects across OCI and Azure
- Working closely with engineering teams on automation, CI/CD, and DevOps pipelines
- Supporting incident, problem and change processes in a regulated environment
Essential experience
- Strong experience as an Oracle DBA in enterprise production environments
- Deep knowledge of Oracle 19c (and ideally newer versions)
- Solid experience across Data Guard, RMAN, SQL and PL/SQL
- Exposure to cloud platforms, ideally OCI and/or Azure
- Linux and scripting experience
- Strong troubleshooting ability and a proactive approach to system stability
Desirable skills
- Experience supporting SQL Server alongside Oracle
- Exposure to Azure SQL / Managed Instance environments
- Knowledge of RAC, Exadata or APEX
- Background in financial services or similarly regulated environments
If that sounds of interest then please get in touch, we are shortlisting for the role over the next 48 hours.