Senior Oracle DBA | Digital DBA Service | Preston

| Salary £44,711 - £49,764 Per Annum | Permanent | Full time, 37 hours per week | Preston, with Hybrid working |

International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship 

Lancashire County Council is the fourth largest local authority in England and covers a huge geographic area and a wide range of communities both urban and rural. The council’s remit is substantial, varied and complex, delivering a wide range of services to 15,000 staff, 1.2 million people who live here, and the schools, businesses and organisations of Lancashire and beyond.   
The County Council is delivering an ambitious Digital Strategy which is making a real difference to the delivery of public services across Lancashire. We are looking for an experienced Senior Oracle DBA to provide lead technical expertise in a specialist technical area, predominantly Oracle OCI Cloud on the Databases team. Working in a busy, high pressured and diverse environment you will be able to effectively understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions using the latest database technologies. You can expect to be involved in a number of projects and work-streams at any time, working in collaboration with other specialist disciplines and key partners – these can vary in both scale and nature, making the workload extremely interesting.  

We are looking for an experienced Oracle Database Administrator to contribute to the support and continuing development of the OCI platform.

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. 

Over and above you will have experience of 

• Cloud Administration including developing, testing and implementing backup and recovery plans including high availability across sites
• Implementing robust OCI database security measures
• Troubleshooting database-related issues in OCI

This role is for candidates who have proven experience as an Oracle DBA, with expertise both on-premises and OCI, effective communication and collaboration skills as well as experience in OCI  database security, performance tuning and monitoring

The Benefits  

We value our staff as individuals and aim to help them achieve their full potential while working for us. We offer a work environment that encourages staff engagement, team working and problem solving, and we recognise the importance and benefits of a good work life balance. In return for your passion and expertise we offer all our staff a generous benefits package, including:  

• Flexible working hours (37 hrs per week) along with opportunities for agile working.   
• Extremely generous Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, death in service payments, life assurance and dependents pensions. 
• Great Holiday Entitlement: 25 days annual leave entitlement rising to 31, after five years' continuous service. Eight bank holidays and two further additional statutory days during the Christmas and New Year period.  
• Family friendly employer: Help to balance family commitments, including generous maternity leave, paternity leave and support for working carers, adoption and parental leave. Childcare voucher scheme.  
• Great location, just a short walk from the train station and main bus route.   

Further Info  

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

The post holder will report directly to the Principal Engineer/Designer for Databases.   

Closing date 3 January with interviews anticipated week commencing 10 January.

For an informal chat please contact  Alison Ashcroft on 01772 530998.   

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.

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