Title: Cloud Database Architect
Type: 6-Month Contract
Location: Fully Remote
Travel: Occasional (up to 25%)
Key Focus Areas
Technical leadership across OCI and Google Cloud Platform
Oversight of enterprise-scale relational, cloud-native, NoSQL, and in-memory databases
Stabilizing and optimizing production environments
Leading incident response, RCA, and remediation
Driving automation, monitoring, runbooks, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives
Required Experience 10+ years in Infrastructure & Database Engineering 3+ years in a leadership or manager-level role Strong hands-on experience with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) and Google Cloud Platform Deep knowledge of both: o Firestore (collections, sub-collections, security rules) o Redis (data types, persistence, sentinel/cluster modes) Experience with on-prem to cloud database migrations Proficiency with CI/CD, monitoring, and IaC
Nice to Have (not required)
Experience leading database modernization initiatives
DevOps / SRE operating model familiarity
Master's degree
If you have candidates who are already vetted, available, and align closely with the above, I'd love to review them as soon as possible. Please include confirmation of:
Employment eligibility
Hands-on experience with OCI, Google Cloud Platform, Firestore, and Redis
Availability and rate