Oracle Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Oracle Cloud Engineer (SC Cleared) Location: United Kingdom(Remote/Hybrid) Position Type: Full-time Experience Level: 5+ years Clearance Required:SC Cleared Requirements What You Will Actually Do: Provision, refresh and decommission environments across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS as the service needs themRun production-to-test cloning and the post-clone work that follows, including data masking, so test environments are safe as well as usefulPlan the environment estate around the quarterly Oracle release cycle and publish that plan so nobody is surprisedMaintain existing Terraform and write new Terraform, so infrastructure gets built the same way every timeOwn backup and restore: full, incremental and snapshot, tested back to a consistent known-good state, not just assumed to workOwn 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 yearRun the vulnerability management cycle with our scanning tooling, and remediate to fixed timescales, with critical fixes measured in days not monthsApply monthly vendor patches and firmware updates across the estateAutomate start-up, shutdown and routine operations, and keep an eye on capacity so problems are raised before users notice themHelp redesign the environment estate to support a better development lifecycle at a lower costShare 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 sideOperate the break-glass process that governs any vendor back-end access: named individuals, stated purpose, fixed time window, nothing open-endedKeep the access records straight: an accurate environments tracker, evidence for the monthly access audit, and maintained standard operating procedures for system administrationWhat You Will Bring Essential Strong hands-on OCI experience: compute, storage, networking, IAM and compartment design, including firewall and routing configurationTerraform in production use, not just a labLinux administration and comfortable scriptingReal backup, restore and disaster recovery experience, including having actually run a recovery testExperience running vulnerability scanning and remediation cycles in a managed environmentFamiliarity with bastion or jump host access patterns and privileged access management tooling, because the custodian duty runs through themSC clearanceUseful but Not Essential Oracle database familiarity (ATP, ADW or DBCS)Exposure to Tenable and SplunkData masking or test data managementExperience supporting an Oracle SaaS or ERP estate from the platform sideGovernment or other high-assurance environments