Oracle Database

**Date live**:
07/01/2025
**Business Area**:
GTIS
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000031498
Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?
Join us as a Oracle Database - IT Operations at Barclays, responsible for supporting the successful delivery of Location Strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
To be successful as a Oracle Database - IT Operations you should have experience with:
Proven experience as a Oracle Database Administrator, with a focus on Oracle and similar database technologies such as PostgreSQL or MS-SQL.
Proven track record of executing SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams.
Expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e.g., ESAAS) with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
Experience in implementing modern DevOps and SRE practices in enterprise environments.
Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
Proven experience in executing database migration strategies at enterprise-scale.
Proven collaboration skills with executives and cross-functional teams.
Experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime.
Professional knowledge of database administration on Oracle.
Experience in multiple versions of Oracle - 11g, 12c, 19c.
Professional knowledge of RMAN, Dataguard, Database Performance Tuning, OEM, plus third-party products such as Imperva.
Understand and meet the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack.
Responsible for debugging the code in case any bug is reported in the Oracle product and fixing the infrastructure/database related issues.
Hands-on as DevOps on Ansible, Python, PL SQL coding.
Focus on resilience, scaling, reliability, uptime, and robustness.
Strong technical skills in areas such as Oracle system administration, networking, cloud infrastructure, automation, and monitoring tools.
Expert knowledge of Real Application Cluster with Maximum Availability setup.
Must exhibit proficiency in solving database contention, Performance Tuning problems (Slow sql response, slow database responce etc).
Database, RAC, OEM, OID installation, configuration and integration.
Database Upgrade, Migration with ZDLR and Patching.
Expertize in Goldengate configuration, troubleshooting.
Database Security policies, fine grained auditing.
Must have experience as Production support Oracle Database Administrator - strong experience in handling large, high volume and high criticality environments.
Demonstrate profieciency in performance tuning including both query and database optimization.
Knowledge of the ITIL framework, vocabulary and best practices.
Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
**Some other highly valued skills may include**:
Working experience in a financial environment.
Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Oracle Certified Performance Tuning Expert - Oracle 19c, 12c or 11g.
Oracle Certified Maximum Availability Expert - Oracle 19c, 12c or 11g.
Experience of working in a highly regulated environment and the associated processes and tools.
Proficient in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
Proficient with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.
AWS Certified Database - Specialty certification is a plus.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in Pune.
Purpose of the role
Accountabilities
**Build Engineering**: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
**Incident Management**: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address,