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.
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, 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.
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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