Oracle Lead Database SRE

Role Overview The Lead Database SRE is responsible for the reliability, scalability, security, and automation of enterprise database platforms supporting critical business applications. This role blends deep database engineering expertise with SRE and DevOps principles to ensure highly available, performant, and resilient database services. The role provides both production and development support for database platforms, with strong ownership of operational excellence, automation, incident response, performance engineering, and cloud database operations. The Lead Database SRE acts as a technical authority, customer concern point, and catalyst in modernising database operations through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices. This position has a proven focus on Oracle and SQL databases hosted on Microsoft Azure, including the migration of on prem workloads to cloud-native and hybrid architectures. Key Responsibilities Reliability, Operations & Support Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of database platforms supporting business critical applications. Act as a point of escalation for sophisticated database production incidents and service disruptions. Participate in on-call rotations and shift cover, including non-standard tasks when required. Investigate and resolve incidents using SRE practices such as root cause analysis, error budgets, and post-incident reviews. Monitor database health, capacity, and performance, ensuring proactive issue prevention. Database Engineering & Administration Develop, implement, and maintain database build standards, including security, patching, backup, and HA/DR. Perform database performance tuning, diagnostics, and optimization using tools such as AWR, ASH, ADDM, and execution plan analysis. Define and document backup, restore, upgrade, and disaster recovery procedures. Support database connectivity using ODBC, JDBC, and vendor-specific drivers. Provide database build and advisory support to development and application teams. Review database application code, collaborate on improvements, and maintain artefacts using standard source control tools. SRE, DevOps & Automation Develop and implement automation for database provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management. Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible. Develop and support CI/CD pipelines for database deployments and schema changes. Define and maintain a database observability and alerting strategy, combining automated alerts with targeted manual checks. Promote and implement self-healing, standardisation, and automation-first approaches across database services. Cloud & Migration Lead solution design and implementation of Oracle and SQL databases on Microsoft Azure. Implement and support database migrations from on premise to Azure, ensuring security, resilience, and performance.