Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

It’s an opportunity you simply don’t want to miss. You can expect our investment in you to include a highly competitive package, career and development opportunities and flexible benefits built around you and your lifestyle.

esure Group are recruiting for an Oracle Database Administrator to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract basis. 

As part of esure’s Data Operations team, the Platform Support Engineer supports a variety of Datacentre and cloud-based databases behind websites, back-end APIs, contact centre and Data Warehouse systems.

They are responsible for the support, maintenance, security, performance and provisioning of databases underpinning these core business applications.  They also share skills within our Cloud Services team and should be an evangelist for Database and automation best-practices to the broader IT community.

What you will do:

• Ensuring required reactive and proactive activities are undertaken to ensure service availability.
• Provide early evaluation and input on new business initiatives on the existing underlying application infrastructure platforms and delivery schedule.
• Proactively see opportunities to reduce support effort and costs through effective tooling and automation.
• To challenge decisions across areas to ensure smooth delivery of change while remaining compliant to existing standards and policies.
• Recognise issues and risks and to contribute to the development and delivery of technical solutions, as well as ensuring live services are protected. 
• Schedule and manage own workload, given set priorities and unplanned production support.
• Assessing risk of proposed changes and making decisions to approve or not based on information available.
• Working with relevant parties, including external third parties, to identify and address root causes for issues.

What we would love you to bring:

Essential:

• Oracle 12c (or above) with production RAC/Dataguard experience.
• Cloud experience – AWS and/or Oracle Cloud
• Good working knowledge of Git and source control.
• Monitoring / alerting tools and solutions – OEM or AWS/OCI
• Terraform
• Scripting or coding with bash/plsql/sql
• Solid understanding of network concepts, particularly in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Strong Linux knowledge.

Desirable Technical Experience:

• Postgres (Standalone, RDS or Aurora)
• Oracle Exadata and ExaCS
• Apex and ORDS deployments
• Puppet and Jenkins
• Oracle Goldengate
• Oracle EBS 12.2
• Broader knowledge around Tomcat/Apache/Kerberos/Docker.

What we will offer you in return:

• A competitive salary that recognises your skills, experience, and potential
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 flex days (equivalent to bank holidays to be taken as and when suits you)
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible working – including hybrid working post Covid19
• Staff discount on our products
• Private medical cover for eligible colleagues

At esure, we are committed to promoting equity, inclusion and diversity. We celebrate and nurture our diversity because it makes strong business sense and because it’s the right thing to do. We are passionate about making everyone feel welcome, included and comfortable bringing their whole self to work every day.

esure cares for our people, our customers, our society and our planet. We aim to ensure all colleagues and job applicants are given equal opportunity and our company is truly representative of all sections of society and our customers. esure is an inclusive environment which provides everyone the support they need to feel included, thrive, grow, meet their goals and have some fun.