Platform Engineer (Linux/Oracle) in London

We believe in autonomous teams and iterative development. We are committed to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing, and we seek individuals who share our enthusiasm. Our focus is on understanding our clients' needs and delivering quality products that exceed their expectations.

High performing teams operate best through a model of build-it and run-it, driven by curiosity about how our products work and how our clients use them. We build comprehensive product knowledge and industry expertise while remaining flexible in our approach.

We operate in multiple independent build squads that align with the same goals and ways of working. Different drives guide our roadmaps, from client needs to commercial strategy to regulatory change, and managing those dependencies is achieved through aligned team decisions. Client success is everyone's business; what we do and how we do it are team decisions.

We believe that expertise grows through hands-on experience rather than just theoretical knowledge. Our approach to product leadership is designed to provide deep exposure to our products, clients, and the fintech industry quickly and frequently.

We focus on:

• Understanding FoundryOS capabilities, industry needs, and client use cases
• Quality at the heart of everything we do
• Leading product roadmaps, planning, and establishing best practices
• Developing expertise in the financial services industry and regulatory environments
• Building and maintaining exceptional client relationships through team excellence
• Zero-to-one function building - creating product delivery frameworks, engineering performance systems, and product delivery processes from the ground up

About the role:

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer specialising in Linux and Oracle administration to support core banking solutions running alongside the FoundryOS cloud platform. This role includes ongoing administration and support of key IaaS platforms alongside FoundryOS’s core platform, which is critical to the day-to-day running of one of our clients.

You’ll work closely with other Platform Engineers and Support Engineers to ensure these IaaS platforms are supported, maintained, and secured. This role also involves participation in the wider FoundryOS SaaS platform with other team members and includes out-of-hours on-call support responsibilities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintaining the IaaS server environments used to run core banking applications, including monitoring, patching, performance tuning, and general maintenance
• Maintaining the IaaS database environments (Oracle and SQL Server) used by the core banking applications, including monitoring, backups, patching, performance optimisation, and general maintenance
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining scripts and other batch operations used by the core banking applications
• Monitoring and ensuring connectivity between core banking applications and users or third-party solutions
• Handling regular technical operations processes such as export and load of data to support banking processes
• Creating and configuring new environments based on project requirements
• Providing second level support to handle incidents or service requests as part of ongoing application management
• Contributing to documentation, SOPs, and knowledge sharing
• Identifying opportunities to automate manual tasks and improve efficiency

Location:

We describe ourselves as “remote but not remote only”. We believe work can be done anywhere, but relationships and trust are built best face-to-face. The best teams take ownership for themselves. We believe our people should decide where they will do the best work for the company.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday
• Birthday day off
• Workplace Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Private Dental Insurance
• Group Income Protection
• Group Life Assurance
• 24-hour mental health support
• Equity Scheme (coming soon!)

About you:

• 3+ years experience as a platform engineer
• Deep understanding of Linux server administration and shell scripting
• Deep experience of maintaining and administering Oracle database environments including RMAN backups
• Experience of Cloud IaaS solutions on Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of Oracle APEX and ORDS based applications
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Knowledge of supporting and running banking grade infrastructure
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexible and focused on solutions
• Organised and self-sufficient

At FoundryOS, we focus hard on getting the best talent into our team. We are committed to making our recruitment process transparent and simple. We are committed to diversity and will always accommodate your needs during our hiring process.

We don’t use AI or chatbots for interviewing; you will always be talking with a real person.

Step 1: Meet the recruiter. If you meet the grade, we will have a short discussion with you to understand you more and get to know us and the role.

Step 2: First (technical) interview. The team you could be working with will interview you. Some roles have a technical part of the interview process.

Step 3: Second (final) interview. A second stage interview will go deeper about you and how you align with us as a company.

Step 4: Decision. We will make a decision and let you know why. We will never ghost you or give you generic feedback.