OCI Platform Admin Snr. Engineer

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an OCI Platform Admin Engineer to join their Finance Modernisation Programme in London. This role involves managing cloud-based infrastructure and optimizing Oracle Cloud services, offering a unique opportunity to work on a large-scale transformation project. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with OCI management, Kubernetes, and automation processes. Join a dynamic team and contribute to innovative solutions that drive significant change across the organization. If you're passionate about cloud technology and eager to make an impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience managing cloud-based infrastructure and OCI services.
• Strong knowledge of container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize cloud-based infrastructure for the Finance Modernisation Programme.
• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure OCI meets security and compliance requirements.

Skills

OCI Management

Kubernetes

Automation Processes

Cost Optimization

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Relevant Cloud Certifications

Tools

Oracle Fusion ERP

Oracle Managed Automatic Backups

Object Storage

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Client:

Axiom Software Solutions Limited

Location:

London, United Kingdom

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

28.04.2025

Expiry Date:

12.06.2025

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Job Description:

Job Type: Contract

Duration: 6 Months

Work Location: London, United Kingdom

The Finance Transformation programme is implementing the Oracle Fusion ERP suite for Financials, Procurement and Recruitment over an 18-month period, building on the Oracle HCM tools already in place. These tools will facilitate significant transformation across Finance and the wider Bank business areas. The programme will be managing that transformation change as well as the configuration of the Oracle toolset.

Role Summary

We are looking for an OCI Platform Admin Engineer to be part of the Programme Management team of the Finance Modernisation Programme to build and manage cloud-based infrastructure, working alongside a fantastic programme team and reporting into the Technology ERP Platform Lead. The Finance Modernisation Programme is a major programme that offers unique learning opportunities due to its scale and complexity and use of Cloud applications and services.

Skilled and experienced in a wide variety of Tech Oracle Cloud solutions, you will support a broad range of services, which will include:

OCI Management:

• Manage cloud-based infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage solutions and networking components.
• Work as part of a team to implement and manage OCI PaaS and SaaS services.
• Ensure these are optimized for OCI and that they meet Bank’s requirements.
• Know how to proficiently use and supervise the use of container deployment and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Manage backup and DR strategies using Oracle Managed Automatic Backups as well as Object Storage and Autonomous Data Guard.

OCI Monitoring:

• Configure, manage, audit and alert on the availability and performance of the OCI environment.
• Manage the performance of OCI resources, diagnosing and troubleshooting issues.
• Make changes to optimize system/platform performance.

Automate:

• Develop and implement automation processes to simplify the management of cloud-based infrastructure.

Control costs:

• Understand and optimize costs by looking at the main cost drivers and working with all stakeholders involved to ensure best use of resources, for example:
• Understand data egress and API requests and how these components factor into cloud billing.
• Learn how pricing differs from Cloud VMs and serverless functions and how to right-size a VM instance to reduce costs.
• Learn about Oracle price models around storage and know how to utilize them to design and run cost effective cloud workloads.

Collaborate with other IT teams:

• Work closely with other teams in IT, including application developers and devops (e.g. ACS) as well as Cyber or IT Infra engineers to ensure OCI meets Bank’s requirements and can support its goals.
• Act as a single point of contact for external partners looking to interact with the OCI platform (e.g. system integrators, auditors, consultants etc).

Security and Compliance:

• Ensure OCI meets Bank’s security and compliance requirements.
• Work with Cyber, Audit and Infrastructure teams to implement security and compliance controls and ensure they are being followed.