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VP Engineering and Reliability

Staines-upon-Thames, England, gb🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the engineering and reliability function for the Technology Platform organization, ensuring reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency for systems used by other engineers.

Role type

VP Engineering and Reliability (Platform & Infrastructure)

Builds

Continuous delivery platforms, automated infrastructure provisioning, database engineering services, and observability solutions.

Domain

Enterprise Software / Cloud Infrastructure / Oracle Database

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Engineering leadership at VP/Senior Director level, managing 40+ engineers, CI/CD at scale, Cloud infrastructure provisioning, Oracle database engineering (Exadata, RAC, Data Guard), SRE model operation, FinOps, Vendor negotiation, Regulated environment experience.

Preferred skills

Enterprise software/SaaS background, Azure/AWS/OCI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Observability stacks (Datadog/Grafana/Dynatrace/Elastic), Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, M&A integration.

Technologies

Oracle (Exadata, RAC, Data Guard, ASM, Grid Infrastructure, RMAN), CI/CD tools, Terraform, Kubernetes, Azure/AWS/OCI, Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace, Elastic.

Responsibilities

Define multi-year technical strategy for CI/CD and database engineering; set architecture and engineering standards; drive Oracle estate modernization; own infrastructure-as-code and self-service provisioning; manage FinOps and cost optimization; lead a globally distributed leadership team; ensure compliance with regulatory and security obligations.

Seniority

VP, strategic leadership & hands-on technical authority

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