OCI Cloud Platform Engineer – Automation & Scale

1000scholars; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension 7.5% + employee 5%

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life Assurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) in the UK is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate an OCI-based platform supporting enterprise apps, scientific research and AI workloads.

You will work with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering to deliver secure, scalable cloud services using Infrastructure as Code, automation and cloud-native best practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or another major public cloud platform.
• Experience designing and supporting secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Experience using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security, monitoring and backup.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Linux administration experience.
• Scripting skills in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation and communication skills.

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/CD.
• Implement 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.

Skills

OCI cloud platform

Cloud security

Terraform

Git & CI/CD

Linux scripting

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

OCI

Job description

Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) in the UK is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate an OCI-based platform supporting enterprise apps, scientific research and AI workloads.

You will work with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering to deliver secure, scalable cloud services using Infrastructure as Code, automation and cloud-native best practices.