Senior Oracle Data Base Administrator (DBA)

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Senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)

Join us as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) at Dedalus one of the Worlds leading healthcare technology companies in Ireland to do the best work of your career and make a profound impact in providing better care for a healthier planet.

What youll achieve

As a Senior DBA you will play a pivotal role in establishing and managing the companys Oracle database environment.

You will be responsible for helping to build the Oracle practice within the company designing and implementing best practices and ensuring that Oracle databases are reliable and secure.

Working with an extended highly skilled team you will be making a profound impact throughout the healthcare sector.

You will:

• Help to Build and establish the Oracle database practice within the company defining architecture policies procedures and operational workflows.
• Design deploy and maintain Oracle database systems (RDBMS Data Guard etc.) to ensure high availability performance and security.
• Lead database performance tuning optimization and troubleshooting efforts for Oracle databases across various environments.
• Develop and implement backup and recovery strategies including disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers network engineers and system administrators to support and optimize database-driven applications and services.
• Manage database upgrades patches and migrations ensuring minimal downtime and disruption to services.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior database administrators and other IT staff.

Take the next step towards your dream career

At Dedalus Life flows through our software. Every day we do something special by helping caregivers and health professionals deliver better care to their served communities. Take the next step in your career that will make a profound impact. Heres what youll need to succeed:

Essential Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Extensive hands-on experience as an Oracle DBA with a proven track record in Oracle database administration.
• Extensive knowledge of Oracle database architecture Data Guard ASM and backup/recovery strategies.
• Experience in building and maintaining Oracle database practices in an enterprise environment.
• Expertise in performance tuning query optimization and troubleshooting Oracle databases.
• Experience with scripting and automation tools (e.g. Shell Perl Python Ansible).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Requirements

• Stay up to date with emerging Oracle technologies database trends and best practices to continuously improve the database environment.
• Oracle Certified Master (OCM) or Oracle Certified Expert (OCE) certification.
• Experience with cloud-based Oracle database environments (e.g. Oracle Cloud AWS RDS etc.).
• Experience with database performance monitoring and reporting tools (e.g. Oracle Enterprise Manager).

We are Dedalus come join us

Dedalus is committed to providing an engaging rewarding work experience that reflects the passion our employees bring to our mission of helping clinicians and nurses deliver better care to their served communities.

Our company fosters a culture where employees are encouraged to learn and innovate and to enable and enhance clinical co-operation and processes while making a meaningful difference for millions of people around the world. Each person is the end point and the starting point of the Groups activities and the ultimate beneficiary. For this reason we are so proud of doing our very special jobs each day.

Our company is enriched by a diverse population of 7600 people in more than 40 countries that work together to innovate and drive better healthcare options for millions of patients around the world. We are the people of Dedalus.

Application closing date: 4th March 2026

Our Diversity & Inclusion Commitment sets out Dedalus approach to ensuring respect inclusion and success for all our colleagues and the wider communities we operate in. It is imperative for us to share our commitment and dedication to ensure an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recognise that we have improvements to make and on this journey we must remain authentic and realistic but also ambitious.

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