Job Description
Job Title: Senior Oracle Database Administrator
Position Type: Full-time / Direct hire
Location: Huntingdon, UK / hybrid / remote
Labcorp is a leading global life sciences company that provides vital information to help doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, researchers and patients make clear and confident decisions. Through our unparalleled diagnostics and drug development capabilities, we provide insights and accelerate innovations to improve health and improve lives. With more than 70,000 employees, we serve clients in more than 100 countries.
Principal Functions:
Maintain and support legacy environments and support projects for migrations to Corporate standard hardware/software Oracle platforms
Ensure company data is secure and recoverable following regulations and guidelines
Provide technical advice and support on Oracle issues to in-house developers and Operational Support Analysts
Management of large databases on Oracle - including installation, design, configuration, backup & recovery, performance analysis, tuning, capacity planning/forecast and security.
Collaborate with DBAs, Developers, and Architects in troubleshooting database and application errors.
Actively monitor the database environment to ensure optimal performance and to prevent production issues.
Backup and recovery and migration using Netbackup, Commvault, RMAN, datapump and export/import.
Proactively monitor and optimize system performance using tuning, optimization, AWR, ASH, and other methods.
On-Call Support on a rotational basis - including Off-Hours and Weekends.
Collaborate with Data Architects on data modeling using tools such as E/R Studio.
Review Oracle SQL query, DDL, DML including stored procedure, packages before deployment.
Provide support for database/application deployments.
Provide training in areas of specialization to other team members.
Must be a team player with excellent collaboration and people skills to be able to engage in productive group discussions.
Excellent verbal and written communication along with the ability to articulate technical solutions for various levels of management and technical staff.
Ability to interface with users at all levels of the organization and good end-user support skills.
Flexible attitude to supporting IT systems outside of the Oracle environment.
Adoption of the company regulations and adherence to applicable SOPs.
Development of SOP's and new procedures.
Coordination and prioritization of daily activities.
Ownership of Project specific tasks.
Consider integration of systems and existing applications to minimize duplication of data, take into account impact analysis on exiting system at all times.
Keep Management informed of any potential deficiencies regarding the ability or the support function meet required standards/objectives.
Communicate effectively at different levels within the organization.
Education / Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or computer science.
Proven work experience as a Database administrator
Required Skills and Experience:
Oracle DBA with proven experience in a mission critical production database environment, including:
Oracle VM
Oracle ZFS
Solaris
Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c and 19c
Oracle 10g and 11g on Linux and Solaris
Real Application Cluster (RAC), Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Clusterware. (2+ years)
Recovery Manager (RMAN) database backup, recovery and cloning.
Dataguard Active/Passive, Physical/Logical.
Performance tuning, troubleshooting including SQL Tuning
Installs, upgrades, patching including Bundle Patches, fleet patching experience.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
Unix scripting skills
Microsoft SQL
Familiarity with Toad, DBArtisan and E/R Studio.
Experience in Healthcare Industry.
Why us:
Labcorp supported the pharmaceutical industry develop more medicines worldwide than any other company, including the top 50 best-selling drugs on the market today.
We are also the world's biggest Central Lab, generating more clinical trial data than all other central laboratories combined.
Our Early Phase Solutions have proved to shave off 30 % time from lead candidate to Proof of Concept.
LabCorp/Covance were the first in receiving FDA approval to perform COVID19 tests using an at-home collection kit.
Labcorp have been named by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers 2020.
Join us and see why we are uniquely positioned to offer you not only a job, but a stable, long-term international career, and why more than 90% of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies are repeat customers.
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