Lead Oracle Intelligent Advisor Developer
9 days ago
Coventry
Job Type: Contract Work Mode: Hybrid (2 Days from office) The Lead IA Developer / DevOps is accountable for the end-to-end technical deliveryand operation of the Intelligent Advisor (IA) service across Oracle Intelligent Advisor,WebLogic, RHEL10, Java integration services, CI/CD pipelines and assuranceobligations. The role provides technical authority, ensures platform stability, governsreleases, manages performance and security, and maintains operational readiness across all environments, particularly pre-production and production. • 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, healthchecks, drain behaviour, TLS and certificate renewal., • Oversight of all Java services including IA SOAP connectors, Zendesk Pollerand CSV Poller, covering JVM tuning, resilience and recovery., • Ownership of CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, including deploymentsequencing, approvals and rollback strategies., • Leadership of cross-tier performance and capacity management from ingressthrough application, integration and data layers., • Accountability for assurance readiness including OWASP-style vulnerabilitymanagement, CIS baseline compliance, GDS expectations and ITHC activities., • Definition and enforcement of operational standards, post-patch validation andprevention 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 IAsolutions, balancing delivery pace with long-term sustainability., • 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, • Oracle WebLogic domain and cluster management, • Certificate and secret management across the stack, • 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, • Monitoring, logging and alerting design, • Incident management and disaster recovery, • OWASP, CIS and ITHC remediation workflows, • 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr