Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Blackpool/Newcastle, UK
Job Type: Full-time contract, 2 months
Work Model: Hybrid (60% onsite)
Minimum Requirement:
Strong OCI experience at a senior level is the critical requirement:
We also require candidates with a solid grounding in day-to-day BAU delivery:
o 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.
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:
a. Implementing network segregation in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS)
b. Incorporating transport encryption to protect data in transit (preferably Oracle)
c. 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