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.