Oracle Migration Engineer

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.