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# Oracle OSS Stack Lead

- **Company:** Vois (vodafone Intelligent Solutions)
- **Location:** Newbury, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Information Technology Operations, Knowledge Management, Oracle (Applications), Oracle SQL Developer, Release Management, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Siebel CRM, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Software Troubleshooting, Containerization, Kubernetes, Enterprise Integration, Splunk, Dynatrace, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gb030aaab86824a7c874b3ba53936bff64/eaa

## About the Role

* Significant experience working within Telecom IT and Oracle OSS environments.
 * Strong expertise in Oracle Telecom OSS solutions, particularly Oracle OSM, or alternatively Oracle Fusion Middleware applications.
 * Experience with Unix/Linux administration and Oracle SQL performance troubleshooting.
 * Knowledge of cloud technologies, containerisation, and Kubernetes environments is advantageous.
 * Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and enterprise operations tooling.
 * Understanding of telecommunications network integrations and Oracle Fusion Middleware integration concepts is beneficial.
 * Strong knowledge of Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management practices.
 * Experience working within ITIL-aligned service management environments.
 * Demonstrated experience leading application support or operational teams.
 * Proven capability in managing critical production services and leading major incident recovery efforts.
 * Strong stakeholder engagement, vendor management, communication, and leadership skills.

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Oracle OSS Stack Lead to take end-to-end ownership of Vodafone's Oracle OSS landscape, ensuring platform stability, resilience, service availability, release governance, and continuous service improvement. This role provides technical leadership across Oracle telecom applications including Siebel CRM, OSM, BRM and associated Oracle technologies. The successful candidate will serve as the key customer contact for critical OSS-related incidents and strategic programmes while driving DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) transformation initiatives. The role offers the opportunity to influence operational excellence, automation strategy, stakeholder engagement, and technology roadmaps supporting business priorities. Based in Newbury, the role operates within Application Operations and IT Operations functions.
## What you'll do

 * Lead end-to-end accountability for Oracle OSS platforms, ensuring high levels of availability, reliability, performance, and resilience.
 * Define and deliver technical roadmaps aligned with business priorities and operational objectives.
 * Drive capacity planning, risk management, and proactive service improvement initiatives.
 * Ensure compliance with service management standards, SLAs, KPIs, and operational governance frameworks.
 * Lead major incident response, technical recovery activities, and root cause analysis implementation.
 * Improve operational performance through reduction of incident volumes and enhanced recovery times.
 * Govern production readiness reviews, release planning, deployment activities, and change management controls.
 * Drive automation across deployment, monitoring, and operational processes using DevOps and SRE practices.
 * Support the adoption of CI/CD capabilities using Jenkins, GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
 * Define observability standards using monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, and enterprise monitoring platforms.
 * Act as the senior technical escalation point for business stakeholders, support teams, and external partners.
 * Manage relationships with Oracle and third-party vendors while providing operational reporting and risk assessments.
 * Lead, mentor, and develop support engineers while strengthening knowledge management and technical capability.
 * Promote a collaborative DevOps and SRE culture across teams and functions., * Opportunity to lead business-critical Oracle OSS platforms supporting large-scale telecommunications operations.
 * Exposure to strategic technology initiatives focused on platform modernisation, automation, and operational transformation.
 * Collaboration with global stakeholders, architects, delivery teams, vendors, and business leaders.
 * Leadership responsibilities including mentoring, capability development, and shaping engineering culture.
 * Opportunity to influence DevOps, SRE, observability, and service reliability strategies across complex enterprise environments.

## What skills you will learn

 * Advanced Oracle OSS platform leadership and operational governance.
 * Enterprise-scale DevOps and CI/CD implementation practices.
 * SRE methodologies focused on reliability engineering and operational resilience.
 * Modern observability and monitoring approaches using leading industry tools.
 * Strategic stakeholder engagement, vendor management, and executive communication skills.
 * Service improvement, automation strategy, and operational transformation delivery.