DV-Cleared Oracle Cloud Engineer – On-Site MK Contract

La Fosse Associates; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,885 - 101,475; Full time

Job summary

La Fosse Associates is seeking a DV-cleared Oracle Cloud Engineer for an initial 3-month contract in Milton Keynes. The role requires 2–3 days on site per week with 3 days inMK, and a day rate of £550 outside IR35. You will manage OCI estates, with governance for backups, DR and access controls.

Responsibilities include building and decommissioning environments, implementing Terraform, and ensuring secure, compliant operation across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on OCI experience across compute, storage, networking, IAM and compartment design.
• Terraform in production use, not just a lab.
• Linux administration and scripting.
• Real backup, restore and disaster recovery experience.
• Experience running vulnerability scanning in a managed environment.
• Familiarity with privileged access management tooling.
• DV clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provision, refresh and decommission environments across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS as needed.
• Run production-to-test cloning and data masking for safe test environments.
• Plan estate around Oracle release cycles and publish the plan.
• Maintain Terraform and write new configurations for consistency.
• Own backup and restore: full, incremental and snapshots with tested state.
• Own disaster recovery: replication to recovery site and annual tests.
• Run vulnerability management cycles with defined fix timescales.
• Apply monthly vendor patches and firmware updates.
• Automate start-up/shutdown and monitor capacity and costs.
• Support redesign of environment estate to improve lifecycle efficiency.
• Share custodian duties for privileged access and audit trails.

Skills

OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

Terraform

Linux scripting

Backup and disaster recovery

Vulnerability management

Privileged access management

DV clearance

Tools

Tenable

Splunk

Job description

La Fosse Associates is seeking a DV-cleared Oracle Cloud Engineer for an initial 3-month contract in Milton Keynes. The role requires 2–3 days on site per week with 3 days inMK, and a day rate of £550 outside IR35. You will manage OCI estates, with governance for backups, DR and access controls.

Responsibilities include building and decommissioning environments, implementing Terraform, and ensuring secure, compliant operation across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.