Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Security-cleared
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to work a 2-month contract with our client 60% on-site in either Blackpool or Newcastle.
Minimum Requirement:
- Strong OCI experience at a senior level is the critical requirement:
- This is the key skill we need to see clearly evidenced on CVs to progress candidates
- We also require candidates with a solid grounding in day-to-day BAU delivery:
- This is important given that project timelines can shift, and operational support remains essential.
This combination would enable the successful candidate to:
- Bring additional capability into the team and support upskilling of existing colleagues
- Take on BAU operational workload, freeing others to focus on more complex or strategic activity
- Provide support on more complex queries, including design work
In summary, we are looking for a well-rounded individual with strong, recent (last five years) experience in both OCI and Exadata.
Required skills:
- Oracle Database technologies (RAC, Dataguard, RMAN Backup and Recovery) and Public Cloud Technologies (particularly OCI and AWS)
- Writing Infrastructure as Code and debugging Terraform and Ansible
- Managing and maintaining Security procedures including:
- Implementing network segregation in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS)
- Incorporating transport encryption to protect data in transit (preferably Oracle)
- Understanding implementation of database encryption options (preferably Oracle)
- Conducting Migration Testing (preferably through Oracle and AWS) and implementing secure authentication with OIDC for GitLab runners
- Maintaining and updating repositories with Git
- Oracle skills
- Oracle RDBMS 11.2-23ai experience of supporting Oracle RAC including ASM, AFD, HANFS, TAF. Additional experience of multitenant, TDE and TLS desirable.
- Specifically in a Linux/Aix OS environment
- RMAN Backup and recovery
- OEM, OCI's Db Management
- Patching and Upgrade experience
- Track record of supporting highly available mission critical databases
- Dataguard setup and configuration
- Data migration tooling Datapump, Golden Gate, ZDM
- Exadata and Base Database configuration experience in OCI
If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.
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