C004844 Oracle Application DBA (NS) - WED 20 May

Deadline Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026

Requirement: Oracle Application DBA

Location: Brussels, BE

Full Time On-Site: Yes

Time On-Site: 100% (There is a limited possibility for remote work (i.e. 1 day/week))

Total Scope of the request (hours): 418

Required Start Date: 2 July 2026

End Contract Date: 31 December 2026

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

Duties & Role:  

Database administrator services for Oracle E-Business Suite and related applications (e.g. OAS, ECC, Apex, Oracle Analytics, EPM) both for projects and in-service support. The Apps DBA will mainly work on daily/scheduled/ad-hoc activities such as:

• Handling tickets raised by functional/technical/business users;
• Handling alerts raised by the monitoring system for Databases and EBS related applications; Installation of EBS custom patches and version control;
• Cloning of non-production EBS environments from PROD;
• 3 monthly installation of the Oracle Critical Patch Update on all Oracle related applications and infrastructure (EBS, Oracle Analytics, SSO, EPM, ECC, OEM, Linux…);
• Monitoring of the EBS suite and its related products like EBS, Oracle Analytics, SSO, EPM, ECC, OEM, Linux, etc.;
• Stopping/starting/bouncing of EBS and all its different components (apache, oacore, oafm, …);
• Writing and maintaining Perl and Shell scripts to automate routine tasks;
• Doing general technical trouble shooting and give consultation to development teams; Interfacing with Oracle Corporation for technical support.
• Providing 2nd and 3rd line support to the assigned business applications, by responding to service requests, investigating and resolving incidents and problems, communicating solutions or advices to customers and users on changes and improvements based on best business practices.
• Contributing to the gathering, analysis, setup, design and documentation of new requirements and change requests.
• Developing and reviewing documentation such as requirements, definitions, functional and technical design documents, system specifications or other deliverables.
• Providing time estimates for the development and implementation of new requirements.
• Ensures full lifecycle tests of requests for change before they are presented to the user for user acceptance testing.
• Active contribution to relevant projects or service operation across Service Lines where integration is required.

We envision the above services to be delivered by one Oracle ERP Applications – Senior Level – Database Administrator that will be part of a team providing technical support to Constellation for NBAC/CSU Brussels. All services need to be performed on-site at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

Skill, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• A minimum of 10 years recent practical experience as an Oracle ERP Applications DBA, demonstrating a 36 months sustained period of performance on the previous 2 most recent assignments. In this capacity, the Consultant must have performed duties such as installing, upgrading, and supporting (patching, troubleshooting, tuning) Oracle E-Business Suite software and the associated Oracle Technology stack in a multi-tier/multi-node/multi-platform environment, comprising database server, applications server, web server, concurrent processing server, reports server, forms server, admin server, and discoverer server.
• Experience of managing multiple Oracle installations on large systems. In particular, the candidate must be conversant with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (or higher), Oracle Database 19c (or higher) product versions in Linux environments and at least three of below listed application releases: Hyperion – EPM (11.2.4); Oracle Analytics BI Publisher Reporting - OAS (12.2.1.4 or higher); Identity Management – SSO (12.2.1.4); Oracle Enterprise Command Centers – ECC (v12 or higher); Oracle Enterprise Manager - OEM (13.5 or higher)
• Practical experience with applying the quarterly released Critical Patch updates on all levels of the Oracle ERP Applications environment.
• Practical experience with Oracle ERP Applications and Oracle Database backup/recovery (RMAN), configuration, sizing, space management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, troubleshooting and administration.
• Expertise in Oracle ERP Applications technical architecture, including knowledge of the underlying database architecture, with particular reference to schemas/products, database objects, file system structure, tables, views, packages, procedures, functions, triggers, sequences, indexes and constraints.
• Broad knowledge of and proven practical experience with WebLogic application server and proven ability in dealing with Forms/Reporting/Apache Web servers and configuring, troubleshooting and tuning
• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience with advanced topology elements like shared APPL_TOP, Oracle Clusterware, Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Demilitarized Zones (DMZ) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.
• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience with Oracle's Enterprise Manager 13c or higher.
• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience with Oracle's Application Management Suite for Oracle E-Business Suite.
• Sound knowledge of and proven practical experience UNIX/Linux and good automation (UNIX/Linux scripting) skills. Practical experience with Perl and Shell scripting.
• Fully proficient in English