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.

Work Location

Remote

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)

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.
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