PeopleSoft Engineer

Job Description

Are you a high-performing PeopleSoft Administrator ready to take ownership of complex enterprise environments and play a key role in driving stability, performance, and innovation?

Join a collaborative team where you’ll partner with technical experts and business leaders, gaining exposure to a fast-evolving industry that is continuously embracing transformation and modernisation.

This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact—supporting critical systems, influencing architecture decisions, and ensuring seamless delivery across environments.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be at the core of our PeopleSoft ecosystem, ensuring reliability, performance, and continuous improvement across environments:

• Own and optimise PeopleSoft environments
  Maintain and support application and server infrastructure, proactively troubleshooting and resolving issues to ensure high availability.

• Drive upgrades and continuous improvement
  Lead PUM upgrades and quarterly patching, ensuring systems remain secure, stable, and future-ready.

• Enable seamless releases
  Collaborate closely with development and functional teams to migrate approved code into production efficiently and safely.

• Ensure environment readiness
  Plan and manage system availability, support environment refreshes, and execute post-refresh activities for non-production systems.

• Monitor and enhance performance
  Oversee production batch schedules, identify bottlenecks, and resolve performance issues across PeopleSoft processes and reports.

• Deliver strong database administration
  Manage Oracle database installations, patching, backup & recovery, cloning, and performance tuning across environments.

• Strengthen resilience & continuity
  Design and implement robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies to protect business-critical systems.

• Provide expert DBA consultancy
  Offer technical expertise across Oracle and SQL Server environments, supporting broader infrastructure initiatives.

• Communicate with clarity and impact
  Provide structured updates and insights to stakeholders, ensuring alignment across technical and business teams.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong expertise in PeopleSoft Administration and architecture
• Proven experience managing complex enterprise environments
• Solid hands-on experience with Oracle databases (and SQL Server exposure)
• Strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on performance and stability
• Excellent collaboration skills across technical and functional teams
• A proactive, ownership-driven approach with strong communication skills

Working Pattern

• Primarily aligned to UK business hours, with flexibility to support EST shifts when required
• Collaborative, team-driven environment with cross-functional exposure

Why This Role?

• High Impact – Work on mission-critical systems that power enterprise operations
• Technical Depth – Engage with complex PeopleSoft, Oracle, and infrastructure environments
• Career Growth – Gain exposure to upgrades, architecture, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborative Culture – Work alongside experienced professionals who value knowledge-sharing and innovation

Qualifications

Core Technical Expertise

• Strong experience in Application Administration and PeopleTools
• Hands-on expertise across PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA), including:
  • App Servers
  • Process Schedulers
  • WebLogic Servers (Linux & Windows)
• Advanced knowledge of PeopleTools 8.54+ and Integration Broker
• Proven experience working with PeopleSoft 9.x (or above) environments
• Strong database administration skills across:
  • Oracle Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server
• Deep understanding of PeopleSoft architecture, infrastructure, and administration best practices
• Expertise across all core technical areas of PeopleSoft Administration

Experience & Capability

• 5–7 years’ experience in PeopleSoft Administration / Infrastructure roles
• Strong track record of owning issues end-to-end and delivering timely resolutions
• Comfortable working in high-pressure, production-critical environments
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure / server environments is highly desirable.

Additional Information

Why Version 1

• Be part of a global Oracle practice of 700+ specialists
• Over 500+ certified professionals across the entire Oracle ecosystem
• Work on large-scale, multi-pillar enterprise Oracle Cloud programmes
• Work with a high-performing, collaborative Oracle practice
• Oracle Innovation Partner of the Year 2023 (EMEA)
• We provide end-to-end Oracle business transformation services, including consulting and advisory services, implementation, integration and managed services
• Our expertise in OCI enables us to deliver scalable, flexible, and high performance cloud solutions to the unique needs of our clients
• Join an award-winning consultancy recognised for innovation and delivery excellence
• Clear career progression, strong leadership support, and genuine investment in your growth
• A culture that values expertise, autonomy, and doing things properly
• Strong career progression & mentorship through our Strength in Balance and leadership programmes, including quarterly Pathways Career Development reviews.
• Significant training budget for certifications and further education.
• Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards & Call-Out recognition platform celebrating achievement.
• Moments that matter & enhanced maternity/paternity leave policies to support your journey.
• Active ESG & CSR initiatives, allowing you to give back through fundraising, volunteering, and diversity, inclusion & belonging programmes.

Benefits include:

• Quarterly performance-related profit share
• Hybrid / Remote working flexibility
• Pension, private healthcare, life assurance cover
• Certified Great Place to Work for 10+ years running

This is hybrid based with occasional travel to your nearest base office.

Krish Bharadwaj, Global Talent Acquisition –Enterprise Applications (Oracle Cloud - ERP, HCM, EPM) 

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We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Version 1 Careers 

Please note: We have an internal recruitment team and do not accept agency candidates. If you want to join the team here at Version 1, get in touch with us directly!