ONSITE || CONTRACT AND FULL TIME ||OCI ARCHITECT / Technical Architect\ Cloud InfrastructureArchitect- Oracle Cloud Focus || Kansas City , KS, Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA

The Cloud Infrastructure Architect will have experience in customer and stakeholder facing roles with an established

success leading deep technical architecture designs focused around Cloud Infrastructure Tenancy build outs from the

ground up, as well as customer workload migrations into these tenancies.

As an Architect and lead on individual customer Cloud Migration and Cloud Adoption projects, you are expected to be an

expert member of the problem-solving/avoidance team and be highly skilled in solving extremely complex (often

previously unknown), critical customer issues.

You will be performing the assigned duties with a high level of autonomy and reporting to both executive management

and the assigned project and program managers, on customer status and technical matters on a regular basis, you will at

times be expected to work with very limited guidance from management on a day to day basis.

Technical requirements of the position include:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Core OCI Technologies

Deep understanding of OCI architecture, regions, compartments, and identity domains.

Experience designing and deploying compute, networking, and storage architectures in OCI.

Expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), including federation, dynamic groups, and policies.

Familiarity with OCI Security tools (Vault, Cloud Guard, WAF, Bastion, Security Zones).

Hands-on experience with Terraform or Resource Manager for OCI Infrastructure as Code.

Experience in OCI cost management, tagging strategies, and budget controls.

Understanding of disaster recovery (DR) types and concepts, high availability designs using multiple ADs

and regions, using DRPGs and FSDR.

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)

Experience designing and managing integration flows, process automation, and adapters in OIC.

Strong understanding of OIC connectivity agents, lookups, and integration patterns.

Ability to integrate OIC with Oracle SaaS, EBS, and third-party systems (REST/SOAP APIs, FTP, etc.).

Familiarity with OIC security, instance management, and monitoring integrations.

Oracle Database Technologies

Expertise in Oracle Database (19c/21c) — architecture, backup/recovery, tuning, and patching.

Strong understanding of Oracle Autonomous Database, DBCS, and Exadata Cloud Service.

Experience with Data Guard, RAC, and GoldenGate for replication and availability.

Knowledge of Oracle Data Safe, Audit Vault, and Database Security features.

Familiarity with SQL Developer, SQL Tuning, and PL/SQL development best practices.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Strong understanding of AWS core services: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and CloudFormation.

Experience designing multi-account environments using AWS Organizations and Control Tower

(Guardrails, Landing Zones).

Familiarity with Lambda, ECS/EKS (Containers, Kubernetes), and serverless architectures.

Proficiency with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, and Security Hub for monitoring and compliance.

Hands-on experience with IAM roles, policies, KMS encryption, and security groups.

Experience architecting hybrid connectivity: Direct Connect, VPNs, and Transit Gateways.

Understanding of cost optimization, Well-Architected Framework, and resilient design.

Understanding of AWS data services (Redshift, Glue, Athena) and application integration (SNS, SQS, API

Gateway).

Microsoft Azure

Experience designing and implementing solutions using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or Bicep

templates.

Strong knowledge of Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, Application Gateway, ExpressRoute).

Expertise in Azure Active Directory, RBAC, and Conditional Access policies.

Experience with Azure Compute services (VMs, Scale Sets, App Services, Functions).

Familiarity with Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, and Azure Storage.

Understanding of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and containerized deployments.

Knowledge of Azure Security Center, Defender for Cloud, and Key Vault.

Understanding of DR concepts in Azure including ASR (Azure Site Recovery).

Experience using Azure DevOps, Pipelines, and monitoring tools (Log Analytics, Application Insights).

Traits of the ideal candidate for this position:

Positive attitude.

Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.

A willingness to mentor with patience and share your knowledge with your team.

A proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

Ability to be a self-starter.

Sharp structured and logical troubleshooting skills.

Ability to manage escalated technical situations & develop action plans.

Other experience we are seeking in the ideal candidate which are seen as a big plus for this role (BUT NOT REQUIRED):

Understanding of DevOps fundamentals such as the use of API’s, CI/CD principles, Pipelines and Agile Project

management.

An understanding of Lift and Shift methodologies for moving Oracle Databases to Oracle Cloud either in IaaS,

SaaS or PaaS.

A strong understanding of other Oracle technologies hardware and applications layer technologies such as

Exadata, RAC and EBS Architectures, Oracle RAC, RMAN backup and recovery, Data Guard and Active Data

Guard, Snap Clone, and Enterprise Manager.

A strong understanding of Oracle MAA and overall applications layer performance tuning, code level technical

troubleshooting (at least where to look, and what to look for).

An understanding of AWS Well Architected Framework and how to apply high availability and best practices in

AWS public cloud infrastructure.

An understanding of Database tuning, software configuration, memory usage, data access, data manipulation,

SQL, and physical storage specifics such as those necessary to ensure Oracle’s proper top performance is seen as

a HUGE PLUS but not a requirement.

An understanding of how to install, implement and use Enterprise Manager Grid Control for enterprise-wide

deployments, exposure to Oracle Applications such as E-Business suite, PeopleSoft Database installation and

configuration experience.

An understanding of Oracle Middleware, Weblogic server, coherence, SOA, IDM.