OCI Cloud Platform Engineer - Scalable & Secure AI

Ellison Institute, LLC; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance for you and/

Cycle to Work Scheme

Nursery Salary Sacrifice

Employee discounts

Job summary

Ellison Institute, LLC is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and operate a secure OCI-based platform supporting enterprise applications, research and AI workloads. You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams to deliver automated cloud services using Terraform and Git-based CI/CD.

You will implement cloud security controls, IAM policies, and ensure monitoring, disaster recovery and cost governance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with OCI or another major public cloud.
• Experience designing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with 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 OCI platform services.
• 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 experience

Cloud security

Linux administration

Scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

Docker

OCI (Oracle Cloud)

VMware

Job description

Ellison Institute, LLC is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build and operate a secure OCI-based platform supporting enterprise applications, research and AI workloads. You will collaborate with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams to deliver automated cloud services using Terraform and Git-based CI/CD.

You will implement cloud security controls, IAM policies, and ensure monitoring, disaster recovery and cost governance.