Job DescriptionWe are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Chief Cloud Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions to support enterprise mission systems and business applications. You will lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud environments, leveraging your deep knowledge of Oracle products and cloud architecture best practices. This role demands technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience with Oracle-based systems in high-volume environments. If you thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven organization and enjoy solving complex data engineering challenges, we want to hear from you. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
ResponsibilitiesRequired Skills:- The ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with a polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 12 years of relevant experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and mission systems.
- Demonstrated experience leading cloud solution architecture and translating customer requirements into production deployments.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud compute, storage, networking, and identity and access management services.
- Experience designing cloud tenancy and compartment structures, access policies, and secure deployment foundations.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, including IP addressing, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and private connectivity.
- Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, including version control and reusable deployment modules.
- Experience deploying and supporting containerized workloads using Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker.
- Experience integrating Oracle Database workloads into cloud architectures, including provisioning, connectivity, backup, recovery, and availability considerations.
- Experience designing for resilience, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Ability to monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, including network connectivity, resource utilization, and service dependencies.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable scripting tools for infrastructure automation.
- Working knowledge of cloud security principles, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, auditing, and network segmentation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across application, database, networking, security, and operations teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing architecture diagrams, technical designs, and customer presentations.
Desired Skills:- Experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) or other federal mission systems.
- Experience deploying solutions in government or classified cloud environments.
- Experience supporting security authorization activities, including the Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and applicable security control implementation.
- Experience developing hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures.
- Experience with Kubernetes and automated application deployment.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
- Experience planning and executing Oracle Database migrations.
- Experience with cloud governance, resource tagging, capacity planning, and cost management.
- Familiarity with geospatial, data-intensive, or AI-enabled mission workloads.
- Relevant OCI architecture, networking, security, or operations certifications.
QualificationsDisclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations onlyUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.
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