Job Title: Oracle Cloud Engineer (DV Cleared) - Outside IR35
Location: United Kingdom(Remote/Hybrid)
Position Type: Full-time
Experience Level: 5+ years
Clearance Required:DV Cleared
Requirements
What You Will Actually Do
- Provision, refresh and decommission environments across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS as the service needs them
- Run production-to-test cloning and the post-clone work that follows, including data masking, so test environments are safe as well as useful
- Plan the environment estate around the quarterly Oracle release cycle and publish that plan so nobody is surprised
- Maintain existing Terraform and write new Terraform, so infrastructure gets built the same way every time
- Own backup and restore: full, incremental and snapshot, tested back to a consistent known-good state, not just assumed to work
- Own disaster recovery for the platform layers: replication to the recovery site, a recovery plan that is current, and at least one proper test of it a year
- Run the vulnerability management cycle with our scanning tooling, and remediate to fixed timescales, with critical fixes measured in days not months
- Apply monthly vendor patches and firmware updates across the estate
- Automate start-up, shutdown and routine operations, and keep an eye on capacity so problems are raised before users notice them
- Help redesign the environment estate to support a better development life cycle at a lower cost
- Share the privileged administration custodian duty: fulfil the small number of access requests that only top-level administration can action, and put bulk access changes through the formal change process rather than on the side
- Operate the break-glass process that governs any vendor Back End access: named individuals, stated purpose, fixed time window, nothing open-ended
- Keep the access records straight: an accurate environments tracker, evidence for the monthly access audit, and maintained standard operating procedures for system administration
What You Will Bring
Essential
- Strong hands-on OCI experience: compute, storage, networking, IAM and compartment design, including Firewall and routing configuration
- Terraform in production use, not just a lab
- Linux administration and comfortable Scripting
- Real backup, restore and disaster recovery experience, including having actually run a recovery test
- Experience running vulnerability scanning and remediation cycles in a managed environment
- Familiarity with bastion or jump host access patterns and privileged access management tooling, because the custodian duty runs through them
- DV clearance
Useful but Not Essential
- Oracle database familiarity (ATP, ADW or DBCS)
- Exposure to Tenable and Splunk
- Data masking or test data management
- Experience supporting an Oracle SaaS or ERP estate from the platform side
- Government or other high-assurance environments