Version 1 proves that IT can make a real difference to our customers’ businesses. We are more than just another IT services company - we are 2000+ leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies. We are celebrating 25 years in the IT industry this year and we continue to be trusted by global brands to deliver IT solutions that drive customer success.  

We are a Microsoft Gold Partner, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and an Oracle Platform Partner. Our greatest strength is balance in our efforts to achieve Customer Success, Empowered People and a Strong Organisation, underpinned by a commitment to our Core Values. 

Version 1 is looking for an experienced consultant to join its Managed Services team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of developing and supporting Database Server solutions for mid to enterprise level organisations. We are looking for an individual who enjoys a fast pace, can prioritise workload, and is eager to gain industry experience. You will have solid background in Oracle technologies. 

This is a great opportunity for the successful candidate to progress their existing skills with a leading Oracle Platinum Partner working with cutting edge technologies.

You'll work within a team of experienced Oracle and SQL Server DBA/Developers, exercising and developing the wide range of necessary skills that distinguishes a rounded consultant:

• The technical ability to problem solve complex issues.
• The flexibility to move between clients, projects, technologies.
• A collaborative team member.
• Develops understanding of clients business, applications and users.
• Effectively communicate technical issues to business users.
• Ability to identify, recommend and implement continuous service improvements.
• Client facing skills.

• Oracle Database Administration and Support.
• Preparing the inventory, preparing and proving procedures, looking at pre-requisites, training and identifying the migration approach for migrations to be conducted.
• Full migration lifecycle activities including, but not limited to detailed analysis, design, development, test, user acceptance test support and production implementation.
• Identifying and correcting performance issues, reviewing systems and error logs, storage management, backups, job monitoring, optimization efforts, data integrity analysis and resolving database contention issues.
• The migration of pre-production and production database services.
  Where application remediation is required, the migration of development and/or system test database services.
• 5 years minimum Database experience in Oracle environments.
• Good performance tuning and optimization skills.
• Solid experience with disaster recovery methods and capacity planning.
• Worked in a large database environment.
• Some data modelling experience.
• Experience with third party backup and monitoring tools.
• Oracle replication an advantage.
• Knowledge of indexes, index management, partitioning and statistics
• T-SQL, SQL, SSIS Oracle RDBMS 12c Oracle RAC Red Hat Linux skills would be good to have.
• Ability to work under pressure, handle complex change and prioritize key activities.
• Knowledge of Oracle Exadata Database Machine
• Ability to apply full stack patch on Oracle Exadata Database Machine
• Optimisation and best practice on Oracle Exadata Database Machine
• Migration experience to Oracle Exadata Database Machine, on-premise, Exadata Cloud @ Customer or Exadata Cloud Services

Before you apply, here are some of our benefits. We offer profit share, pension, private healthcare cover, flexible working policy and more. We offer incentives for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role.

We offer employee recognition in the form of Excellence Awards and V1Ps which is awarded by your peers. Engagement is incredibly important with local engagement teams driving our engagement events!

Anthony Cronin

Talent Acquisition Consultant