Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect - OCI/ OIC

Job Title: Architect - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Location: Kansas City , KS, Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA (Onsite only)

Duration: 12+ months

Job Description

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.

You will provide deployment instruction and design details including design diagrams, in support of customer cloud adoption and will be well versed in crafting solutions around blockers that typically prevent cloud adoption strategies from being successful.

The primary assignments of this role will be to perform rapid assessments of clients internal technology landscape and targeting use cases and deployment targets for Public Cloud technology such as in Oracle OCI, Oracle SaaS, Oracle PaaS, AWS and Azure. Additionally, you will act as a primary point of technical contact for customers during Cloud Migration and Cloud Adoption projects, as well as acting as an escalation point for highly complex and diverse issues that require your support and guidance.

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.

Your advice will be sought out by both the customer as well as assigned engineers working directly with or under your guidance on Cloud build-out and Migration focused projects. Mentoring and teaching others is going to be a big portion of this job. You will be interfacing with lead and operations members of the Database Administration and Applications teams as well, who will be using the systems you and the infrastructure teams design and build out as per the customer requirements.

There are times when you will also be asked to design and test new technologies in the Cloud. You will be expected to be hands-on and be able to work technically, as an individual or part of the team, on the products you are designing Without any doubt you will need to be able to perform hands-on work on your own, in this role This is not a theory/paper-based role Hands-On-Keyboard execution is required. A background in engineering design, building, testing, and ongoing operational support of complex systems is a plus and is perceived by us to make you a more powerful resource in the area of true Cloud support from a holistic point of view. You must have a firm and deep grasp on infrastructure technologies such as how they interconnect and function in the IaaS, SaaS and PaaS systems in public cloud infrastructure. Compute, Networking, Storage technical depth and understanding is a requirement.

Work should be expected to be non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in your areas of specialization. You must be dynamic and have an adapt and overcome attitude to succeed in this role. A relentless focus on customer satisfaction and positive (not negative) energy towards finding solutions to problems is absolutely key.

Because of substantial customer and corporate stakeholder interfacing, a demonstrated ability to work with customers and stakeholders on an independent basis with exceptional communication and documentation skills, while consistently achieving the highest levels of customer satisfaction is required.

You should possess a can-do attitude and at least 5 to 7 years related experience in any combination of infrastructure engineering, and operational management, consulting and architecture, and design, prior to taking this position.

Experience in Oracle s core OCI Cloud product line such as IaaS, SaaS and PaaS and Engineered Systems is a must, any experience in other cloud environments such as AWS and Azure will be seen as a huge positive to any applicant in this role.

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.