Job Description

Oracle Migration Engineer

Bradford | £700 per day Umbrella

A Local Authority is seeking an experienced Oracle KVM Migration Engineer to deliver a hands-on migration of virtual machines from a VMware environment to physical hosts running Oracle KVM.

This is a delivery-focused role requiring an engineer who can plan, configure, execute, test, and optimise the migration end-to-end. Candidates with purely advisory or consultancy experience will not be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

Execute the migration of workloads from VMware to Oracle KVM physical hosts.

Configure and optimise Oracle KVM environments for performance, resilience, and scalability.

Migrate virtual machines, applications, and data with minimal downtime.

Perform testing, validation, and troubleshooting throughout the migration process.

Implement backup, recovery, monitoring, and high-availability solutions.

Document configurations, migration activities, and post-migration outcomes.

Essential Experience:

Proven hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and managing Oracle KVM.

Strong VMware administration and VM migration experience.

Solid knowledge of Linux, enterprise infrastructure, storage, networking, and performance tuning.

Experience delivering complex migration projects from planning through to implementation and validation.

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently