Senior Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

The Role

This position requires a highly technical engineer with strong recent experience across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Exadata, Oracle database technologies and cloud-based infrastructure automation. Alongside project delivery, you will also provide BAU operational support to ensure critical services remain secure, resilient and performant.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, support and optimise Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments.
• Manage and maintain Oracle databases including RAC, Data Guard and RMAN Backup & Recovery.
• Support Exadata and Base Database deployments within OCI.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Perform database patching, upgrades, migration testing and environment optimisation.
• Configure and maintain highly available Oracle database environments.
• Implement and maintain security controls including network segregation, encryption and secure authentication.
• Manage repositories using Git and support CI/CD delivery practices.
• Support database migration activities using Data Pump, GoldenGate and Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM).

Essential Experience

• Strong recent experience (within the last five years) working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Hands-on experience with Exadata and OCI database services.
• Oracle Database administration experience across Oracle 11.2 through to 23ai.
• Expertise in Oracle RAC, ASM, AFD, HANFS and TAF.
• Data Guard setup, configuration and administration.
• RMAN Backup and Recovery.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and OCI Database Management.
• Database patching, upgrades and lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical environments.
• Linux and/or AIX operating system experience.
• Experience with AWS cloud technologies would be beneficial.

Desirable Experience

• Oracle Multitenant
• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
• TLS implementation
• GoldenGate
• Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM)
• OIDC authentication for GitLab runners

Interested?

If you wish to apply, please send:

• Your latest CV - Availability / notice period
• Confirmation of your OCI and Exadata experience
• Your required day rate