Design, build, automate, secure, and operate scalable Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platforms for enterprise, research, and AI workloads. Manage networking, compute, storage, IAM, monitoring, security, backups, disaster recovery, patching, and reliability. Develop Terraform-based infrastructure and Git CI/CD pipelines, support cloud-native teams with reusable patterns, optimize cost and performance, and maintain documentation, standards, and operational procedures.
Join us at EIT:
At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
- Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
- Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
- Climate Change & Managing CO₂
- Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.
Your Role:
EIT is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer with demonstrable experience to design, build and operate a secure, scalable and highly available Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform supporting enterprise applications, scientific research and AI workloads. Working closely with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams, you will deliver modern cloud services using Infrastructure as Code, automation and cloud-native best practices.
Your Responsibilities:
- Design, build, automate and operate secure, scalable, highly available OCI platform services and workloads.
- Manage OCI networking, compute, storage, identity, DNS, load balancing, object storage, monitoring and logging.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with Git-based CI/CD.
- Implement cloud security controls, IAM roles and policies, network segmentation, secrets management, vulnerability remediation and audit requirements.
- Establish platform monitoring, alerting, logging, capacity management, backup, disaster recovery and incident-response procedures.
- Manage patching, upgrades, lifecycle management and service reliability for cloud workloads.
- Support application, research and AI teams with reusable cloud patterns, self-service capabilities and technical guidance.
- Optimise OCI consumption, performance and cost, working with stakeholders on forecasting and governance.
- Maintain architecture documentation, standards, runbooks and operational procedures.
Requirements
Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or another major public cloud platform.
- Experience designing and supporting secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
- Experience using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security, monitoring and backup.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Linux administration experience.
- Scripting skills in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation and communication skills.
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- OCI certifications, such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate or Professional.
- Experience with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience supporting AI, data, research or high-performance computing workloads.
- Experience with cloud security, vulnerability management and compliance controls.
- Knowledge of VMware, hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure integration.
Benefits
We offer the following benefits:
- Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus
- Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July.
- Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%
- Life Assurance.
- Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan
- Employee discounts
- Electric car scheme
- Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Family Planning
- Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments
- Coaching & Therapy services
Working Together – What It Involves:
- You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.
- You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).
- During peak periods, some longer hours may be required and some working across multiple time zones due to the global nature of the programme.
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