Summary
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Join an ambitious technology organization working at the intersection of science, engineering, and real-world impact. As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure that supports innovative research and technology initiatives. The environment values curiosity, technical excellence, collaboration, resilience, and the ability to turn complex ideas into practical solutions.
Highlights
Opportunity to work on ambitious, mission-driven technology spanning health, science, sustainability, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The role emphasizes secure, scalable infrastructure and collaboration with scientists, engineers, researchers, and innovators.
Description
Join us at EIT:
At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact.
We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
Health, Medical Science & Generative BiologyFood Security & Sustainable AgricultureClimate Change & Managing CO₂ Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference.
At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs.
Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society.
Explore more at www.eit.org.
Your Role:
EIT is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer with demonstrable experience to design, build and operate a secure, scalable and highly available Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform supporting enterprise applications, scientific research and AI workloads.
Working closely with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams, you will deliver modern cloud services using Infrastructure as Code, automation and cloud-native best practices.
Your Responsibilities:
Design, build, automate and operate secure, scalable, highly available OCI platform services and workloads.
Manage OCI networking, compute, storage, identity, DNS, load balancing, object storage, monitoring and logging.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with Git-based CI/CDImplement cloud security controls, IAM roles and policies, network segmentation, secrets management, vulnerability remediation and audit requirements.
Establish platform monitoring, alerting, logging, capacity management, backup, disaster recovery and incident-response procedures.
Manage patching, upgrades, lifecycle management and service reliability for cloud workloads.
Support application, research and AI teams with reusable cloud patterns, self-service capabilities and technical guidance.
Optimise OCI consumption, performance and cost, working with stakeholders on forecasting and governance.
Maintain architecture documentation, standards, runbooks and operational procedures.
Requirements
Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or another major public cloud platformExperience designing and supporting secure, scalable cloud infrastructureExperience using Terraform and Infrastructure as CodeKnowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security, monitoring and backupExperience with Git and CI/CD pipelinesLinux administration experienceScripting skills in Bash, PowerShell or PythonStrong troubleshooting, documentation and communication skills
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
OCI certifications, such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate or ProfessionalExperience with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Docker and KubernetesExperience supporting AI, data, research or high-performance computing workloadsExperience with cloud security, vulnerability management and compliance controlsKnowledge of VMware, hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure integration
Benefits
We offer the following benefits:
Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonusEnhanced holiday.
Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year.
You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July.
Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5% Life Assurance.
Income Protection Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents.
Including hospital Cash Plan Employee discounts Electric car scheme Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme Cycle to Work Scheme Family Planning Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments Coaching & Therapy services
Working Together - What It Involves:
You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.
You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)During peak periods, some longer hours may be required and some working across multiple time zones due to the global nature of the programme.
