Cloud Technical Lead in Reading

Cloud Service Technical Lead

Remote with work in Reading sometimes as needed

Global Product Security is looking for a Technical Lead who will inherit and continue the migration of existing internal systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and maintain, enhance and administer such systems in the long term.

Our OCI infrastructure serves mostly the Global Product Security’s Ethical Hacking Team (EHT), a group of experienced security professionals who run in-depth security assessments on Oracle products.

You will become part of the EHT and will shadow experienced security professionals who employ cutting-edge techniques to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.

You will have plenty of occasions to sharpen your security skills and steer your career towards becoming a complete security expert.

Responsibilities:

Our ideal candidate is a Linux expert who is used to owning medium-sized migration projects, comfortable with complex corporate processes and with the deliverables usually associated with them

Previous experience with Oracle’s Cloud is not a requirement: in this role, you will follow the necessary learning path to become highly proficient in the OCI stack, tools and technologies, taking OCI certifications including “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations”, “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Operations” and “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect”.

You will be in charge of maintaining and evolving the cloud design of all GPS services, servers and networks.

You will open, follow and complete the internal Oracle ORM (OCI Release Management) migration process for each service, lead meetings and provide evidence and documentation to the OCI subject matter experts who will check that the implementation fits their criteria.

You will manage all tenancies’ needs (resource creation and inventory, network, security configuration, budgeting, limits and capacity) and will work with OCI to improve the compliance level and align to their future criteria.

You will also take care of hardening, patching and configuration of a subset of the servers, the ones used by the using and improving Terraform/Ansible custom scripts.

Requirements:

• Graduate with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related
• Excellent organizational, presentation, verbal and written communication skills in English
• Familiarity with corporate processes: ability to identify stakeholders, produce deliverables (reports, presentations, spreadsheets), manage multiple tasks in parallel, translate high-level requirements into project plans and Gantt diagrams
• Ability to read products' documentation, install and configure them
• Familiarity with Ansible and Terraform
• Ability to manage cloud/virtualised environments and infrastructure. Familiarity with at least one hypervisor technology
• Knowledge of Linux OS internals: memory allocation, kernel and filesystem familiarity, at the design and integration level
• Familiarity with networking protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS) and related security protocols (e.g. SSL, TLS, key exchange)
• Familiarity with static routing, DNS, DHCP, and ability to configure them in a cloud environment
• Full proficiency in Python
• Interest in security: you will work as part of a team whose day by day job is security research, so being curious and keen to learn what the team has to offer will be an important part of your long term presence in the EHT
• Understanding of basic security OWASP Top10: SQL injection, XSS, SSRF, RCE
• Applied knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and standards
• Basic knowledge of security standards such as FIPS-140 and ISO 27000 families