Senior Platform Engineer

Manchester - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Senior Platform Engineer (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI)

Duration: 6 Months

Location: Manchester & remote (hybrid)

Rate: 760

IR35 Status: Inside

Start: ASAP

Role Overview:

Were currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer with excellent OCI experience (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) for our higher education client.

This role is to support and evolve the clients cloud platform services and this role is critical in enabling secure scalable and resilient platforms for teaching learning research and administrative systems.

This role will involve you working closely with academic researchers and application teams and their central IT to deliver reliable cloud platforms that will support their student systems research workloads and institutional data; whilst ensuring compliance with higher education security and governance standards

Essential Skills & Experience Required

As the Senior Platform Engineer (OCI) you will possess the following:

Minimum 5 years of proven industry experience in Platform Engineering Cloud Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.
Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in production environments.
Solid experience with:
- OCI Compute Storage (Block Object File) and Networking
- OCI IAM Compartments Policies Security Lists and NSGs
Strong proficiency in GITLAB & Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools.
Strong Linux systems administration experience.
Oracle Database awareness / experience.
Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (OCI OKE desirable).
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to support diverse stakeholders including academic and administrative users.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable / Nice to Have

OCI certifications (e.g. OCI Architect Professional).
Experience working in a higher education or public sector environment.
Exposure to research computing data platforms or HPC workloads.
Knowledge of security privacy and compliance frameworks relevant to universities.
Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities include:

Design build and maintain OCI-based cloud platforms supporting HE systems research computing and student-facing services.
Architect and manage OCI networking including VCNs subnets DRGs Load Balancers VPN/FastConnect and network security controls.
Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to ensure consistency repeatability and auditability.
Enable platforms for research workloads including data-intensive and high-performance computing use cases (where applicable).
Collaborate with academic faculties research groups and IT teams to deliver fit-for-purpose cloud solutions.
Implement and enforce cloud security governance and compliance including IAM compartment design data protection and tagging standards.
Support DevOps and CI/CD practices to enable application development teams across the organisation
Monitor platform performance availability and costs ensuring effective cost control and budget transparency.
Provide advanced troubleshooting and incident support for critical systems.
Document platform standards architectures and operational procedures.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to skills development within the IT team.
Participate in On-Call support and planned maintenance activities as required.

If this role is of interest then please email your CV to:

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Job DescriptionSenior Platform Engineer (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI)Duration: 6 MonthsLocation: Manchester & remote (hybrid)Rate: 760IR35 Status: InsideStart: ASAPRole Overview:Were currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer with excellent OCI experience (Oracle Cloud Inf...