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And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.\nService line - Position Title: TechOps-CloudOps - Senior Oracle Database Administrator\nAt EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.\nWe’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.\nJoin EY and help to build a better working world.\nAbout Global Delivery Services\nGlobal Delivery Services refers to EY's worldwide network of service delivery centers. The GDS team plays an important role in EY’s strategy by ensuring effective support to EY’s growth agenda.\nOur journey started in 2002 with approximately 200 people. Today we stand at 80,000+ professionals in ten locations around the world. We operate in Argentina, China, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.\nClient service is focused on providing Consulting, Assurance, Tax, Strategy & Transactions, and Knowledge support to our clients around the world. The teams enable account teams worldwide to provide seamless, high-quality, value-added support, helping deliver exceptional client service.\nEnablement Services provides cost-effective, high-skilled, and innovative services to support EY’s global and local enablement teams. Markets, BMC, AWS, Finance and Accounting, Risk Management, Procurement, People Shared Services, IT Service Delivery and IT Global Infrastructure services, are among the services offered by Enablement Services.\nOur innovation specialists serve the GDS Client Service and Enablement Services teams, along with Service Lines, Core Business Services and Sectors. The team brings the desired environment, technologies and skilled teams together for facilitation, rapid prototyping and innovative thinking. The competencies offered include analytics, digital, user experience, mobile technology, infrastructure, Microsoft technologies and open innovation.\nThe Opportunity\nThe Senior Oracle Database Administrator is accountable for the reliable, secure and efficient operation of Oracle database platforms supporting business-critical applications. The role combines hands-on database administration with engineering, troubleshooting, lifecycle management, security controls and close collaboration across application, infrastructure, security and DevOps teams.\nThe successful candidate will own operational database activities from installation and configuration through monitoring, performance optimization, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades and production support. The role also contributes database expertise to ensure that database changes are tested, documented, auditable and safely promoted through environments.\nYour Key Responsibilities\nResponsible for decision-making, optimizing processes, resource management, and overseeing team management as needed for task execution.\nAccountable for allocating personnel, supervising team members, assigning tasks, ensuring that the team has the necessary tools and support to succeed in their roles and optimizing and evaluating their performance to meet organizational goals.\nCore database administration\nInstall, create, configure and maintain Oracle databases on all environments\nAdminister database instances, schemas, storage, tablespaces, parameters, listeners, services and connectivity in line with agreed standards.\nPlan and execute database patching, version upgrades and technical maintenance, including prerequisite checks, rollback planning, validation and evidence capture.\nExecute database and schema refreshes across environments using approved native tools and controlled procedures.\nMaintain accurate operational documentation, configuration records, runbooks and technical procedures.\nPerformance, availability and resilience\nMonitor database health, capacity, availability and performance; identify trends and address risks before they affect service quality.\nPerform database performance tuning, investigate bottlenecks and optimize configuration, queries, indexes and resource utilization where appropriate.\nDesign, operate and test backup, restore and recovery procedures using Oracle RMAN, and ensure recovery evidence is retained.\nOperate and troubleshoot high-availability and disaster-recovery capabilities, especially Oracle Data Guard; experience with RAC, ASM and Grid Infrastructure is beneficial.\nSupport capacity planning, housekeeping, availability reviews and disaster-recovery exercises for critical database services.\nSecurity, access and audit\nImplement database security controls, including user and role administration, least-privilege access, authentication integration and segregation of duties.\nAdminister encryption controls such as Transparent Data Encryption and file-system-level encryption, as well as encrypted database connections.\nReview vulnerability assessment findings, assess database impact and apply required remediation or patches through controlled change processes.\nConfigure and maintain database auditing and reporting mechanisms, and provide traceable evidence for reviews and audits.\nTroubleshoot Oracle network configuration, listener issues, certificates, connection encryption and authentication problems.\nDELIVERY, OPERATIONS AND COLLABORATION\nOperational support and service managementProvide advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for database incidents, performance degradation, failed jobs, connectivity issues and application errors.\nParticipate in incident, problem, change and release processes; communicate technical status, risk, impact and remediation clearly.\nSupport planned maintenance and, where required by the operating model, on-call or out-of-hours activities for critical services.\nWork with application teams to translate business and technical requirements into supportable database solutions.\nCoordinate with infrastructure, cloud, network, security and identity teams to resolve cross-platform issues.\nIdentify opportunities to automate repetitive administration, monitoring, configuration and deployment activities using scripting and configuration-management tools.\nContribute to standards, reusable procedures, knowledge transfer and continuous improvement of database operations.\n\nExpected deliverables\nDeliverable \nOperational documentation \nChange artefacts \nHealth and performance outputs \nSecurity and compliance evidence \nKnowledge transfer \nTypical content\nRunbooks, configuration standards, recovery procedures and troubleshooting guides\nImplementation plan, test evidence, rollback plan, approvals and post-change validation\nMonitoring findings, capacity observations, tuning recommendations and incident analysis\nAccess reviews, patch evidence, vulnerability remediation, encryption and audit records.\nTechnical walkthroughs, handover materials and mentoring for operational teams\nSkills and attributes for success\nAt least 8 years of hands-on experience in Oracle database administration for enterprise environments.\nDemonstrated experience with installation, creation, configuration, patching, upgrades, troubleshooting, performance tuning and optimization.\nStrong practical experience in high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, and database monitoring.\nExperience supporting business-critical enterprise applications; exposure to regulated sectors such as banking or insurance is advantageous.\nExperience with refreshes and migrations of databases or schemas between environments.\nExperience analyzing vulnerability findings and implementing database remediation.\nExperience establishing database audit and reporting mechanisms.\nTechnical Skills\nCapability Priority\nOracle platform \nRecovery & HA \nPerformance \nSecurity \nOperating systems \nDatabase development \nAutomation \nAdvanced Oracle \nReplication\nOther databases \nExpected knowledge\nDatabase 12c/19c administration, architecture, installation, configuration, patching and upgrades\nRMAN, Data Pump and Data Guard\nMonitoring, diagnostics, database optimization \nUser administration, authentication, TDE, connection encryption, auditing and vulnerability remediation \nStrong Unix/Linux knowledge; working knowledge of Windows\nSQL and PL/SQL, including functions and procedures \nBash; practical knowledge of PowerShell and/or Ansible\nRAC, ASM and Grid Infrastructure\nOracle GoldenGate or comparable third-party replication tools\nPostgreSQL, open-source or cloud database platforms\nProfessional skills\nStructured troubleshooting and analytical problem solving under operational pressure.\nAbility to assess technical risk, define practical mitigations and make evidence-based recommendations.\nClear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.\nAbility to connect technical solutions with customer and application requirements.\nStrong collaboration across distributed, multicultural and cross-functional teams.\nOwnership, reliability and attention to detail when working on production systems.\nAbility to prepare and deliver technical presentations and knowledge-transfer sessions.\nQualifications\nOracle Certified Professional for Oracle Database 12c and/or 19c is mandatory.\nITIL Foundation certification is an advantage.\nRelevant degree in computer science, information technology or a comparable discipline is preferred, or equivalent professional experience.\nWhat we offer you\nAt EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.\nAre you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.\nTo help create an equitable and inclusive experience during the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible about any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.\nOur Commitment: As a commitment, we persistently endeavour to embody our values, fulfil our purpose, and champion inclusiveness. Our dedication is to cultivate EY into an environment where diverse perspectives are celebrated, creating a supportive atmosphere for individuals to authentically be themselves and contribute their utmost.\nProfessional Development: From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe in continuous learning. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership roles, and connect and grow through mentorship.\nPeople and Culture: In our dynamic workplace, diversity, equity, and inclusiveness are ingrained in our culture. We're united by a commitment to create an environment where every individual's differences are valued, practices are equitable, fostering a sense of belonging. 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