OCI Cloud Platform Engineer | Terraform & Secure Infra

Jobtailor; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Cloud/OCI Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable OCI services. You will automate using Terraform, manage networking, IAM, storage and monitoring, and partner with Infra, Security and Software teams to deliver reliable cloud workloads.

Ideal candidates have hands-on OCI and Terraform experience, Kubernetes and Docker familiarity, and strong scripting skills.

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.
• OCI certifications desirable, and experience with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Docker and Kubernetes desirable.
• Experience supporting AI, data, research or HPC workloads desirable.
• Knowledge of VMware, hybrid cloud and on-premises integration desirable.
• Right to work permanently in the UK; willingness to travel; close to Oxford

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate and operate secure, scalable 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 with stakeholders on forecasting and governance.
• Maintain architecture documentation, standards, runbooks and operational procedures.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams to deliver modern cloud services.

Skills

OCI

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Linux

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Cloud Networking

Tools

Terraform

OCI

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

VMware

Python

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Cloud/OCI Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable OCI services. You will automate using Terraform, manage networking, IAM, storage and monitoring, and partner with Infra, Security and Software teams to deliver reliable cloud workloads.

Ideal candidates have hands-on OCI and Terraform experience, Kubernetes and Docker familiarity, and strong scripting skills.