Role: Senior Infrastructure Engineer REF 98867
Contract Length: 2 months
Location: Hybrid/Blackpool or Newcastle – 60% in office
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
- Work with and maintain operational relationships with suppliers ensuring services and products are delivered aligned to industry best practice, regulatory and contractual requirements
- Act as a major incident manager and escalation point for all service-related incidents
- Responsibility of the leading a team of Senior Engineers, providing expert advice or dealing with complex problems and providing specialist service/solution technical support
- Provide updates for the risk register for individual technical area, ensuring appropriate management and mitigation plans and actions are implemented
- Work closely with other senior leaders and teams, sharing information, providing advice and support around technical choices and implementation approach.
- Providing specialist knowledge and experience to input into the wider digital infrastructure strategy and development roadmap
- Oracle Database technologies (RAC, Dataguard, RMAN Backup and Recovery) and Public Cloud Technologies (particularly OCI and AWS)
- Writing Infrastructure as Code and debugging Terraform and Ansible
- Managing and maintaining Security procedures including:
- Implementing network segregation in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS)
- Incorporating transport encryption to protect data in transit (preferably Oracle)
- Understanding implementation of database encryption options (preferably Oracle)
- Conducting Migration Testing (preferably through Oracle and AWS) and implementing secure authentication with OIDC for GitLab runners
- Maintaining and updating repositories with Git
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
- Oracle Database technologies (RAC, Dataguard, RMAN Backup and Recovery) and Public Cloud Technologies (particularly OCI and AWS)
- Writing Infrastructure as Code and debugging Terraform and Ansible
- Managing and maintaining Security procedures including:
- Implementing network segregation in a public cloud environment (preferably AWS)
- Incorporating transport encryption to protect data in transit (preferably Oracle)
- Understanding implementation of database encryption options (preferably Oracle)
- Conducting Migration Testing (preferably through Oracle and AWS) and implementing secure authentication with OIDC for GitLab runners
- Maintaining and updating repositories with Git
- Oracle RDBMS 11.2-23ai experience of supporting Oracle RAC including ASM, AFD, HANFS, TAF. Additional experience of multitenant, TDE and TLS desirable.
- Specifically in a Linux/Aix OS environment
- RMAN Backup and recovery
- OEM, OCI’s Db Management
- Patching and Upgrade experience
- Track record of supporting highly available mission critical databases
- Dataguard setup and configuration
- Data migration tooling Datapump, Golden Gate, ZDM
- Exadata and Base Database configuration experience in OCI
If you are a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
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