Senior Cloud Operations Engineer - Security-Cleared

Ll Oefentherapie; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud is seeking a Principal Engineer in Northern Ireland to operate production environments, including systems and databases, supporting critical government workload. You will provide escalation support, lead incident bridges, and guide junior engineers while ensuring high availability, performance, and security compliance across Oracle's sovereign cloud environment.

This role requires rotating day and night shifts and close collaboration with partners to deliver reliable cloud services

Qualifications

• Open to United Kingdom Nationals, position in Northern Ireland.
• Experience with Linux system administration, Kubernetes, cloud, Exadata, networking, database, storage, compute, virtualization and troubleshooting.
• Familiar with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
• Experience participating in or running incident bridges of significant scale.
• Customer focused with a passion for delighting customers.
• Experience in SRE, cloud technical support, cloud operations, and incident management.
• Demonstrate ability to quickly learn new technical disciplines and then train/mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Install, monitor, maintain, support, and optimize all production server hardware and software.
• Provide escalated technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status.
• Coordinate escalated support cases and lead appropriate internal technical resources and/or third-party vendors to resolution and coordinate a storage infrastructure of Oracle system and database appliances.
• Responsible for Oracle production environments; assist with server operating system and application upgrades, bug fixes, and patching; and work on standardization projects for both hardware and software under the Oracle technology stack while providing consistent system uptime as expected in a Cloud environment.
• Lead communications with key partners in solving complex technical problems.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to junior members to enable them to grow in their careers.
• This team will provide support and administration on a 24/7 basis and will require rotation across day and night shifts.

Skills

Linux administration

Kubernetes

Cloud computing

Networking

Database administration

Troubleshooting

Incident management

Virtualization

Leadership

SRE experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Exadata

Job description

Oracle Cloud is seeking a Principal Engineer in Northern Ireland to operate production environments, including systems and databases, supporting critical government workload. You will provide escalation support, lead incident bridges, and guide junior engineers while ensuring high availability, performance, and security compliance across Oracle's sovereign cloud environment.

This role requires rotating day and night shifts and close collaboration with partners to deliver reliable cloud services