About Firm:
Mott MacDonald is a global management, engineering and development consultancy employing more than 14,000 staff working in 140 countries and with an annual turnover exceeding £1 billion. Our breadth of skills, services and global reach makes us one of the world's top players in delivering management, engineering and development consultancy solutions for our customers.
Mott MacDonald is in the 2012 UK Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For list– one of only four companies to appear six years running. We’re the only consultancy of our kind in the list, and the only employee-owned company to feature, reflecting our commitment to our staff, showcasing our belief that employee fulfilment is as crucial as customer satisfaction.
Job Ref: 9530BR
Job Category: IT & Computing
The team primarily manage:
- all SIS Oracle databases
- a growing number of Microsoft SQL Server databases
- a number of core Group Applications including the corporate ERP system
- the application stack from database, through middleware to third line application support
- data and application integrations between Group databases and applications.
- Assistance in day to day database administration and optimisation to ensure the smooth running of the Group's various databases and applications within the team's remit
- Maintenance of existing DBA processes, procedures and alerting mechanisms; to be able to identify opportunities for enhancements and implement new solutions
- Review existing and new PL/SQL developed by in-house application developers
- Manage deployment of Oracle objects and PL/SQL to the development, testing and production servers as required by the development process
- Server monitoring and OS maintenance
- Administrate user accounts and handle access requests
- Commission new database instances, migrate existing and perform upgrades
- Regular data repopulation of non-production databases
- General support for the primary DBA in project based tasks
- Communicating professionally, effectively and clearly both verbally and in writing to the team and other staff.
- Being a pro-active team member.
- Work closely with immediate colleagues and other Shared Information Services employees to provide a high quality service
- Build inter-divisional rapport with teams that rely upon database operations
- Seek assistance and offer support when workload fluctuates
- Contribute to management and professional activities
- Take opportunities for self-development
- Communicate openly with peers and promote “team spirit” at all times.
Candidate Specification:
- Formal Education & Experience
- University degree in Information Technology or other numerate discipline and relevant work in previous employment
- Demonstrate ability to learn new skills on the job
- Essential technical skills / experience
- Previous experience administrating Oracle 10g, preferably also 11g
- Linux Redhat / Oracle Linux v4, v5, v6
- Scripting in Bash, Perl or similar
- Desirable Technical skills / experience
- Understanding of database clustering (RAC)
- Knowledge of various Oracle tools such as Datapump, DBCA- Some exposure to MS SQLServer
- Use of IT and industry standard service management practices (ITIL preferred)
Personal Attributes:
• Strong and clear communication skills (written & verbal)
• Self motivation
• Team player
• Sound interpersonal skills.
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full-Time
Country: United Kingdom
Region / State: England - South East
Location: Southampton, UK
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