3rd Line Oracle DATABASE Administrator

Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

Security Clearance Level: High – DV ‘Developed Vetting’

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams in the UK to address some of the most complex problems in defence, government, safety and security, and transportation.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated third line Oracle Database Administrator, with high levels of security clearance, to join our growing team of IT experts in delivering high quality IT services to our government and commercial customers. You will be self-motivated and able to work autonomously to achieve day to day objectives with significant results on project or operational deliverables, whilst also owning a variety of activities ensuring compliance with project milestones and customer KPIs and SLAs. You must be an effective communicator, comfortable directly engaging with customers and colleagues. You will also demonstrate an analytical and systematic approach to technical challenges.

Your Role and Responsibilities:

• Providing enterprise operational database support and maintenance services to a complex range of imagery and geospatial system capabilities in a high availability operational environment.
• Maintenance of Oracle database systems and to a lesser extent MSSQL & POSTGRES databases in a predominantly Windows environment across a multisite enterprise solution.
• Maintenance and updates to Data Models and Data Definition Language as well as responsibility for database integrity.
• Thorough understanding of Oracle databases and to a lesser extent MSSQL and other database products.
• Experience with Geo-spatial products such as ArcGIS, Arc Server and Arc SDE environments is highly advantageous.
• Support to ClearCase and ClearQuest software and patch fixes.
• Providing remote and on-site support, including out of hours on call support from time to time.
• Contributing towards the creation and ongoing maintenance of technical documentation.

Ideally, you will have:

• Experience in an ITILv3 support enterprise environment.
• Oracle DBA (10g/11g) experience in an Operational Support environment.
• Knowledge of the change and operational release cycle, including Systems Integration, Development and Test.
• Experience of IT architectures and the application of Software/Systems engineering principles within a secure IT environment.
• A history as a proactive ‘self-starter’, able to respond to complex situations with little oversight.
• Experience with Oracle 12c support, Windows Server, VMWare environments, WebSphere and JBOSS Applications.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL.
• Any experience in working in a Defence environment, and/or with imagery and geospatial tooling and datasets would be highly desirable but is not essential.

Keeping an eye on the technology landscape is essential, too – identification of new and relevant technologies to solve problems and make improvements is part of the job.

To work with our talented team and our customers you would need to be able to achieve a high level of security clearance.

What we do for you:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexi-Time

Commitment to Diversity: We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services.