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
