Job Application

Exadata Engineer
5-8 Years Experience
6 months
London
Business Unit - FS
IR35 Status - Mandated PAYE

We are heading up a recruitment drive on behalf of a leading IT consultancy that require a Exadata Engineer to join their team on a major banking project that is based in London.

Front-to-back support of Exadata platform being built for OneRisk application within RFT Market Risk space. Platform will use brand new X10M database machines.

Support responsibilities include:
Unix OS management, including patches, upgrades, Cyber vulnerabilities remediation, OS backups, system performance tuning, other activities to ensure compliance with Bank's standards.
Oracle DB management (same scope as above).
Migration of the existing OneRisk databases being hosted on 19c RACs to Exadata (expected to be done throughout 2024).
Incident & Change Management across environments of all grades, including Production. Proactive system monitoring and preventive/corrective actions as required, daily health checks.
Maintenance of dedicated monitoring infrastructure (Oracle OEM/ASR).
Provisioning of new databases/environments.
Capacity Management & Forecasting.
Database backups.
Refresh of Non-Production databases.
Ownership of physical hardware problems (eg motherboard/disks failures), and coordination with vendor & datacentre engineers on their resolution.
Management of vendor Service Requests.
Other Engineering/DevOps/Project Work, eg optimization of database code delivery (CI/CD).

2. Serving as a backup Support Engineer during India hours for Exadata platform operating in the Finance space - a mix of X5s (being phased out) and X9s.