We have an exciting Job opportunity for OCI Platform Admin Snr. Engineer

Role: OCI Platform Admin Snr. Engineer

Duration: 6 months

Work Location: London, United Kingdom (twice a week to office)

Active SC Clearance

Primary Skills:

• At least 5 years of experience on Thing Worx Platform
• Strong programming background and ability in JavaScript and Java

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 (eg 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 (eg 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 (eg system integrators, auditors, consultants etc)