Oracle Cloud Engineer – DV cleared

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

Job Benefits

Outside IR35

Job Specification: DV Cleared-Oracle Cloud Engineer

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Milton Keynes UK-based working required, 3 days on site in MK

Clearance Required: DV (Developed Vetting)

Position Type: Contract (Outside IR-35)

The Role

A central government organisation is seeking to recruit a DV cleared Oracle Cloud Engineer on an initial 3 month contract basis, 2-3 days per week in Milton Keynes (high likelihood of extension), paying £550/day outside IR35 to start asap (potential for increase in rate).

Under the applications sits an OCI estate of production and non-production environments, and this role owns keeping that estate healthy, current, recoverable and affordable.

Builds are scripted, restores are rehearsed, patching runs to a clock, and there is a live piece of work to reduce the number of environments we pay for.

This role also carries the highest level of administrative access to the platform. Engineers here hold privileged administration as a named custodian duty: every action logged, every request checked, every shortcut declined. If you have been the person trusted with root in a serious environment, you know exactly what that involves.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Provision, refresh and decommission environments across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS as the service needs them
• Run production-to-test cloning and the post-clone work that follows, including data masking, so test environments are safe as well as useful
• Plan the environment estate around the quarterly Oracle release cycle and publish that plan so nobody is surprised
• Maintain existing Terraform and write new Terraform, so infrastructure gets built the same way every time
• Own backup and restore: full, incremental and snapshot, tested back to a consistent known-good state, not just assumed to work
• Own disaster recovery for the platform layers: replication to the recovery site, a recovery plan that is current, and at least one proper test of it a year
• Run the vulnerability management cycle with our scanning tooling, and remediate to fixed timescales, with critical fixes measured in days not months
• Apply monthly vendor patches and firmware updates across the estate
• Automate start-up, shutdown and routine operations, and keep an eye on capacity so problems are raised before users notice them
• Help redesign the environment estate to support a better development lifecycle at a lower cost
• Share the privileged administration custodian duty: fulfil the small number of access requests that only top-level administration can action, and put bulk access changes through the formal change process rather than on the side
• Operate the break-glass process that governs any vendor back-end access: named individuals, stated purpose, fixed time window, nothing open-ended
• Keep the access records straight: an accurate environments tracker, evidence for the monthly access audit, and maintained standard operating procedures for system administration

Essential skills

• Strong hands-on OCI experience: compute, storage, networking, IAM and compartment design, including firewall and routing configuration
• Terraform in production use, not just a lab
• Linux administration and comfortable scripting
• Real backup, restore and disaster recovery experience, including having actually run a recovery test
• Experience running vulnerability scanning and remediation cycles in a managed environment
• Familiarity with bastion or jump host access patterns and privileged access management tooling, because the custodian duty runs through them
• DV clearance

Desirable skills

• Oracle database familiarity (ATP, ADW or DBCS)
• Exposure to Tenable and Splunk
• Data masking or test data management
• Experience supporting an Oracle SaaS or ERP estate from the platform side
• Government or other high-assurance environments

Please note, you must have DV clearance to be eligible for this role.

If interested, please apply today.