In het kort
T-Systems Nederland B.V. zoekt een senior Oracle Database administrator in Veldhoven. Het gaat om een detacheringsopdracht voor 40 uur per week met een looptijd van 4 maanden.
Oracle Database Administrator
Role Overview
Provide hands-on operational support for business-critical Oracle databases during production cutover and hypercare activities. You will help maintain database stability and availability, diagnose complex issues, and work closely with database, cloud infrastructure, and application teams.
This role focuses on production database operations and troubleshooting rather than database development or design.
Responsibilities
- Support Oracle databases during production cutover and hypercare.
- Monitor, investigate, and resolve incidents affecting database availability, performance, and application connectivity.
- Support Oracle Database 12c and 19c environments hosted on Microsoft Azure.
- Perform database health checks, performance analysis, and proactive monitoring.
- Support database startup, shutdown, recovery, and operational validation during cutover.
- Troubleshoot database connectivity, storage, performance, and infrastructure-related issues.
- Carry out established database maintenance, configuration, and recovery procedures.
- Support backup and recovery using Oracle RMAN, and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery configurations, including Oracle Data Guard.
- Investigate issues involving Oracle ASM, database storage, and resource utilization.
- Collaborate with Azure cloud engineers, application teams, and infrastructure specialists to resolve cross-platform incidents.
- Participate in live customer incident calls and provide timely technical analysis.
- Document incidents, recovery actions, operational changes, and shift handovers.
- Support production stability and service availability in line with agreed SLAs.
Operational Requirements
- Availability for rotating 24/7 shifts, with emphasis on 16:00–00:00 and 00:00–08:00.
- Ability to provide onsite support in Veldhoven when assigned.
- Willingness to participate in active support, standby, and planned operational activities.
- Ability to respond to incidents during assigned active shifts or standby periods.
- Ability to collaborate with technical teams and follow defined escalation procedures.
- A valid Dutch Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required before onboarding.
- Professional English communication skills; Dutch is also acceptable.
- CV: Must be provided in English.
Eisen
Hier moet je cv aantoonbaar aan voldoen
- Extensive hands-on experience as an Oracle DBA supporting business-critical production environments
- Strong technical knowledge of Oracle Database 12c and 19c
- Proven experience in database troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident resolution
- Strong experience with Oracle RMAN backup and recovery procedures
- Practical knowledge of Oracle Data Guard and high availability configurations
- Experience with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
- Hands-on experience supporting Oracle databases hosted on Microsoft Azure
- Understanding of Azure Virtual Machines, storage, networking, and monitoring
- Experience diagnosing database connectivity, resource utilization, and performance problems
- Scripting and automation experience using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or Ansible
- Experience with database monitoring and diagnostic tools
- Understanding of database security, access management, and operational best practices
- Ability to work independently and troubleshoot complex database incidents under pressure
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical findings during live customer incident calls
- Experience working with structured incident, change, and escalation processes
- Availability for rotating 24/7 shifts, with emphasis on 16:00–00:00 and 00:00–08:00
- Ability to provide onsite support in Veldhoven when assigned
- Willingness to participate in active support, standby, and planned operational activities
- Immediate availability to troubleshoot incidents during assigned active shifts or standby periods
- Ability to collaborate with existing technical teams and follow defined escalation procedures
- Professional English communication skills; Dutch is also acceptable
- Ability to complete onboarding and access provisioning within a short timeframe
Wensen
Hiermee val je op
- Previous participation in large-scale database migrations, production cutovers, or hypercare assignments
- Oracle Data Guard failover and switchover operations
- Experience with Oracle databases supporting SAP or other enterprise applications
- Experience with Azure DevOps or comparable automation and CI/CD solutions
- Knowledge of Azure infrastructure dependencies affecting Oracle database performance and availability
- Experience with enterprise disaster recovery procedures and production recovery testing
- Experience working in multinational enterprise environments
