Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Oracle / OCI)

Contract Type: Contract

Duration: 2 Months

Location: Hybrid (60% On‑site in Blackpool or Newcastle)

We are seeking a highly operational Senior Infrastructure Engineer with deep, hands‑on expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Exadata. In this role, you will balance complex infrastructure design with critical day‑to‑day BAU operational support, managing highly available, mission‑critical database environments. You will act as a major incident manager, drive infrastructure automation, and bring specialist knowledge to upskill the existing engineering team.

• Deliver expert, hands‑on BAU operational support and act as the escalation point for major service‑related incidents.
• Configure, support, and maintain Oracle Base Database and Exadata environments.
• Write, debug, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible.
• Manage data migration projects and conduct migration testing across public cloud environments.
• Implement and maintain robust security procedures, including network segregation and data encryption (at rest and in transit).
• Mentor existing team members, providing specialist technical guidance on OCI and Exadata best practices.

• Strong, recent experience (within the last 5 years) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Exadata.
• Extensive Oracle RDBMS (11.2‑23ai) experience in Linux/AIX environments.
• Deep expertise in supporting Oracle RAC (including ASM, AFD, HANFS, TAF).
• Strong proficiency with Dataguard setup, OEM, OCI's DB Management, and RMAN Backup & Recovery.
• Experience with data migration tooling (Datapump, Golden Gate, ZDM).
• Public Cloud experience (OCI and AWS).
• Version control and CI/CD tools (Git/Git Lab, including OIDC authentication).