Job Type: Contract
Work Mode: Onsite (Client)
Core Responsibilities
* Technical ownership of Oracle Intelligent Advisor (IA) and IA Hub deployments, runtime behaviour, upgrades and fault resolution.
* Leadership of WebLogic domain and cluster operations including AdminServer, Managed Servers, NodeManager, rolling restarts and diagnostics.
* Ownership of RHEL10 VM operations (hardening, SELinux, firewalld, patching, reboots and housekeeping) across all nodes.
* Ownership of Apache HTTPD ingress configuration including routing, health checks, drain behaviour, TLS and certificate renewal.
* Oversight of all Java services including IA SOAP connectors, Zendesk Poller and CSV Poller, covering JVM tuning, resilience and recovery.
* Ownership of CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, including deployment sequencing, approvals and rollback strategies.
* Leadership of cross-tier performance and capacity management from ingress through application, integration and data layers.
* Accountability for assurance readiness including OWASP-style vulnerability management, CIS baseline compliance, GDS expectations and ITHC activities.
* Definition and enforcement of operational standards, post-patch validation and prevention of silent failure modes.
* Acting as the senior technical interface with product owners, delivery managers, architects, security teams and business stakeholders.
* Translating user needs and policy intent into technically viable, operable IA solutions, balancing delivery pace with long-term sustainability.
Required Technical Skills
IA/Application
* Oracle Intelligent Advisor modelling, deployment and runtime support
* A Hub configuration and operations
* Deep understanding of IA runtime behaviour and failure modes
* Java SE for long-running services and batch processing
* SOAP-based integrations and contract management
* TLS, keystore and truststore configuration
* JVM tuning (heap, GC, streaming and large BLOB handling)
* Resilience patterns including retries, timeouts and idempotency
Platform & Middleware
* Oracle WebLogic domain and cluster management
* Certificate and secret management across the stack
DevOps
* Azure DevOps repositories and CI/CD pipelines
* Multi-component deployment sequencing and rollback
* Secure secret handling using Key Vault or equivalent
* Strong stakeholder engagement skills across technical and non-technical
* Ability to lead technical conversations with product owners and policy teams
* Clear communication of technical risks, constraints and options
* Coaching and mentoring of senior developers
* Evidence-based decision making and pragmatic problem solving
Operational & Assurance
* Monitoring, logging and alerting design
* Incident management and disaster recovery
* OWASP, CIS and ITHC remediation workflows
Expected Experience
* Proven technical leadership of mission‑critical IA or rules‑based digital services particularly in a government setting
* Experience running production WebLogic estates on Linux
* Track record managing Java integration services at scale
* Demonstrated accountability through security testing and assurance cycles
* Ownership of BAU operations as well as delivery
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