Professional Services Oracle Consultant

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DSP offers award-winning IT consultancy and managed services for Oracle, Microsoft and Google technologies. We specialise particularly in database and data platform management, application development, engineered systems and cloud with a strong presence specifically in Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle APEX, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. We are a leading technology partner in the UK and have been recognised as such by our partners and industry through a wide range of awards and accolades.

Our mission is to be the most responsive service provider in the sphere of enterprise database management, regardless of platform, geography, and cloud infrastructure. We will harness the passion of our people and have the courage to challenge traditional methods of service delivery, pursuing customer success and happiness at all times.

We strive to hire the best people who are aligned to our core values:

• Excellence: We are committed to giving our best in everything we do and aspire to be exceptional.
• Responsiveness: We are quick to respond to our colleagues' and customers’ needs.
• Respect: We act with honesty and treat employees, customers and partners with mutual respect and promote inclusive working practices.
• Passion and fun: We are passionate about what we do and believe that work should be both fun and fulfilling.
• Continuous Improvement: We have the courage to innovate and embrace new ideas.

The Professional Services Oracle Consultant will report directly to the relevant technical team leads and will be responsible for pre-sales and delivery of professional services engagements across a variety of platforms and Oracle-centric technologies both on-premises and cloud.

DSP is a growing organisation, and the successful candidate will be working on the latest technologies and cloud platforms; this role is ideal for a motivated Oracle-centric technical consultant who wants to broaden their technical capabilities with solution architecture and design.

• Participate in or own pre-sales activities with both new and existing customer base, advise customers on the best approach and deliver required outcomes such as Statement of Works, Proposals and Cloud Pricing.
• Architect cloud and on-premises solutions to match the requirements of proposals.
• Deliver professional services engagements based on core Oracle technologies on-premises, on cloud platforms or hybrid cloud to a high standard, ensuring DSP customers meet their business needs.
• Keep relevant Oracle Education and cloud certifications up-to-date.
• Produce both internal and customer facing technical documentation to a high standard.

• Oracle Database Administration (all recent versions).
• Oracle platform consolidation and migration approaches and design.
• Oracle core products patching and upgrades.
• Experience of high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities of Oracle Database in particular Oracle RAC, Data Guard and Golden Gate.
• Demonstrable experience with public cloud platforms (OCI (preferred), AWS, Azure, GCP) - including networking and security.
• Oracle Database performance tuning.
• Good understanding of operating systems (Linux, Solaris, Windows).

• Oracle E-Business Suite experience patching and administration
• Other RDBMS expertise (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Mongo)
• Writing SQL and understanding basic PL/SQL
• Oracle Engineered Systems (Exadata, ODA, PCA)
• Oracle Weblogic
• Oracle Forms and Reports
• Oracle APEX
• Terraform

• Be able to work individually or collaboratively within a team.
• Self-motivated and able to work under their own initiative.
• Strong communicator with an ability to articulate technical and non-technical topics and challenges to a wide and varied audience and at the appropriate level.
• Strong technical writing skills to ensure all work is documented to a high standard.
• Manage their own time appropriately and ensure deadlines are met and expectations are set with key stakeholders.
• A problem solver and…