Business Unit: COO, Quality Assurance
Salary range: £40,000 - £55,000 per annum per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: Remote with occasional visits to the local hub (Gosforth/Glasgow)
Be a change maker with more cha-ching. Live a life more Virgin.
Our Team
The Route to Live Team believe that good change is built on good test environments which is why we aspire to deliver the best System Integration Test Environments to support our testing and ensure that all change is delivered in an innovative way to deliver the best for our customers.
What you'll be doing
Our work is highly specialised, high profile and fast paced, so you will be expected to:
- Self-manage in a professional and proactive manner, prioritizing work load & deliverables in conjunction with our Environment Managers
- Support non-production services through proactive identification of risk, swift resolution of issues and proposing appropriate fixes/improvements for future
- Working closely with Technical Teams and Project Managers to ensure the delivery of database solutions meet the organisation's standards
- Defect/Issue/Problem investigation & resolution, working with the relevant Service Centres to resolve
- Deliver improvements to maintain and improve agreed level of environment availability
- Implement appropriate improvement initiatives into the test environments against agreed timetable
- Collaborate with internal and external parties in order to provide excellent test environments
- Improve our processes through process automation, innovation and continuous improvement
- Keep your knowledge current in regard to Oracle database technologies including but not limited to Cloud platforms including Exadata and OCI
- Think "outside the box" to find new and innovative solutions to issues
We need you to have
- A strong understanding and experience in supporting Oracle databases (10g, 11g, 12c and 19)
- Experience supporting an Enterprise level database estate
- Experience of undertaking database patching and upgrades (ideally to 19)
- Knowledge and understanding of Grid Infrastructure
- ITIL Service Management awareness (Change & Problem Management processes)
- Oracle RMAN backup and Recovery experience
- Oracle Tuning and Optimisation skills
- Experience of working with SQL databases
It's a bonus if you have but not essential
- Oracle Linux, Linux, AIX, and Solaris Operating System experience
- familiarity with the Atlassian toolset especially Jira & Confluence
- Experience of virtualisation toolsets, such as Delphix
- Awareness of Flashback technologies
- Experience of working in an Agile Framework/delivery model
Red Hot Rewards
- Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more.
- Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
- 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
- Market-leading pension.
- Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
- Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money
We're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we're a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.' This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.
Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team
Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.