Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Oracle)

Closing: Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 9th February 2024

🚀 What you'll be doing 🚀

A Senior Infrastructure Engineer builds, administers, transitions, supports and maintains infrastructure services throughout the service lifecycle, according to the departmental policy and Home Office strategy.

You will work in a team of Infrastructure Engineers ensuring services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required. You will work with and support third parties in providing infrastructure services and with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations. You will also provide input into overall management activities such as workforce planning, budgeting, technology roadmaps, projects, and tasks.

Shared Application Services (SAS) is a growing business area consolidating and growing our capabilities in application development and support. We are looking to build our internal capability, reduce and replace where possible the department’s dependence on external IT suppliers.

It’s important that we build a diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve and provide an inclusive environment for all. We value everyone's skills and provide a creative and supportive workplace to help you do your best work and develop your career.

We encourage applications from people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from women, people with disabilities and LGBT+ as they are currently under-represented in the Home Office at this grade level. Appointments will be made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.

👀 About you 👀

Previous experience of...

• Designing, implementing, administering and supporting infrastructure technologies and solutions such as: compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, cloud, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source packages and solutions.
• Reviewing the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Defining the integration build and co-ordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
• Initiating and monitoring actions to investigate patterns and trends to resolve problems, including consulting specialists where required. You will determine the appropriate remedy and assist with implementation of fixes as well as preventative measures.
• Identifying the correct procedures and appropriate channels for resolution and monitor resolution activities and progress updates to users.
• Coaching and mentoring more junior infrastructure engineers, participating in their appraisal and related performance management processes.

This is a hands-on role and the role will required to be on call and carry out out-of-hours work.

Essential skills:

• Providing direction and coaching to more junior members.
• Managing and delivering complex technologies within time, cost and quality targets.
• Agile Development and continuous integration principles.
• Maintaining focus on the whole life cycle of service delivery; from design, development, and delivery through to operation.
• Dissecting a problem into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes, allowing problem resolution.
• Technical concepts required in your role and an ability to build solutions.

Demonstrable experience of at least 5 of following technologies:

• Fusion Middleware (FMW)
• Database traditional (RDBMS/RAC, Data Guard)
• Database Cloud Service (DBCS)
• Autonomous Database (ADW/ATP)
• Data Integrator (ODI)
• Identity Cloud Service (IDCS)
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Exadata
• Visual Builder Studio (VBS/VBCS)
• Integration Cloud (OIC)
• SOA Suite
• Java Cloud Service (JCS)
• Managed File Transfer (MFT)
• Oracle Cloud
• WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)

💜 Some of the benefits our engineers love 💜

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the King’s Birthday, rising further with service
• Flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that right for you including part-time, flexi time and job sharing
• Training and development opportunities tailored to your role
• An in-year bonus scheme
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity