Result of Service
Reliable, secure, and highly available Oracle database services; effective backup, recovery, and disaster recovery readiness; optimized performance and capacity; automated routine DBA tasks; and timely technical support to application owners and developers.
Expected duration
8 months from 1 November 2026-30 June 2027.
Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant will be expected to perform the following tasks:
Deploy, certify, and manage Oracle Servers, including high availability, RMAN backups, disaster recovery, and failover exercises.
Monitor availability, alerts, incidents, performance, and baseline deviations.
Perform capacity planning and system upgrades, including cumulative updates and migrations.
Use AWR, ASH, and custom scripts to proactively monitor and tune database performance.
Automate routine DBA tasks and maintain automation/shell scripts.
Manage database space, accounts, indexes, statistics, and resource utilization.
Perform database and OS-level tuning, identify bottlenecks, and work with Oracle Support via SRs.
Support change management, ad-hoc backups, migrations, database refreshes, and installation programs.
Provide technical support and tuning recommendations to developers and application owners.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications/special skills
Advance University in computer science, software engineering or a related field is required. Bachelor's degree with additional 10 years work experiences may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
A minimum of 5+ years of experience in Oracle Server database administration is required.
Experience with Oracle high availability, RMAN backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and failover validation is required.
Experience with AWR, ASH, performance tuning, capacity planning, and database/OS-level optimization is required.
Experience automating routine DBA tasks using shell/scripts and working with Oracle Support (raising SRs) is required.
Strong problem-solving, communication, and organizational/time-management skills are required.
Languages
For the post advertised, fluency in English is required.
Additional Information
The consultant follows the work hours in the time zone of the UN Office in Bangkok (Thai-land). The consultant is expected to be available during the regular working hours of the of-fice, 9:00 – 17:00 (Bangkok time)