Database and DevOps Team Lead

Database and DevOps Team Lead (Oracle)

Manchester (Hybrid - minimum one office visit per fortnight)

£70,000 - £80,000 + Excellent Benefits

A Database & DevOps Team Lead is required for our public sector client to provide technical leadership across its Database Administration and DevOps functions. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team supporting a complex enterprise technology environment while helping to shape the future direction of critical business systems. Working within a highly integrated technology estate, you'll combine hands-on Oracle database expertise with people leadership, service improvement and operational management responsibilities. You'll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, security and performance of business-critical platforms while driving modernisation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead, develop and mentor Database Administration and DevOps team members.
Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for Oracle database environments.
Drive knowledge sharing, succession planning and team capability development.
Oversee database performance, security, patching, upgrades and maintenance activities.
Manage relationships with third-party suppliers and support partners.
Lead responses to major incidents, problem management and service improvement initiatives.
Ensure robust backup, recovery and disaster recovery arrangements are maintained and tested.
Support ongoing cloud, automation and platform modernisation programmes.
Work closely with infrastructure, development, testing and product teams to deliver reliable services and successful project outcomes. Experience required:

Significant hands-on Oracle Database Administration experience within enterprise environments.
Strong knowledge of Oracle installation, configuration, performance tuning, security, patching and upgrades.
Experience leading technical teams and developing colleagues.
Experience managing operational workloads, technical risks and service improvements.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Experience working with third-party support providers and managing escalations.
A solid understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and monitoring tools.Highly Desirable

Oracle Solaris administration experience.
Oracle RAC or RAC One Node.
Oracle RMAN backup and recovery.
Microsoft SQL Server.
Azure cloud technologies.
Experience with Git, Jenkins, TeamCity or Octopus Deploy.
Exposure to database upgrades, migrations and cloud transformation projects.Benefits

Hybrid working arrangements.
Excellent pension provision.
Generous annual leave entitlement.
Private healthcare and wellbeing benefits.
Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
The chance to play a key role in modernising critical public sector services.If you're an experienced Oracle professional looking to combine technical leadership, people management and strategic service improvement within a large and complex environment, please get in touch