Senior Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Engineer

Role Summary

OCI Infrastructure

• Design and implement OCI tenancy structures, compartments, VCNs, subnets, security lists, NSGs, and DRGs.
• Provision and manage compute instances, block, object and file storage, and load balancers.
• Configure IAM policies, identity federation, dynamic groups, instance principals, FastConnect, IPSec VPN, Web Application Firewall, and Cloud Guard.

Cloud Migration

• Lead workload migrations from on-premises environments or other cloud platforms to OCI.
• Conduct discovery, assessment, dependency mapping, and migration planning using Oracle Cloud Migrations, RackWare, or equivalent tools.
• Plan and execute rehost, re-platform, and refactor approaches based on workload requirements.
• Support database migrations using OCI Database Migration Service, Data Pump, GoldenGate, or Zero Downtime Migration.

Cloud-Native Services and DevOps

• Build and manage containerized workloads using OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform with the OCI provider, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, or Pulumi.
• Implement monitoring and observability using OCI Monitoring, Logging, Logging Analytics, and Application Performance Monitoring.

Oracle Workloads on OCI

• Deploy and manage Oracle Database services on OCI, including DB Systems, Exadata Cloud Service, and Autonomous Database.
• Design OCI environments for Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Fusion Middleware workloads.
• Configure Oracle Data Guard, RMAN, and Autonomous Data Guard for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Monitor and optimize Oracle workloads using OCI Database Management, Operations Insights, and Performance Hub.

Documentation and Technical Leadership

• Produce high-level designs, architecture documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks.
• Translate application and business requirements into practical OCI designs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior cloud engineers.
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Must-Have Experience

• 7–8 years of progressive cloud engineering experience, including at least 4 years focused on OCI.
• Hands-on experience with OCI Compute, Networking, Storage, IAM, Database, and Security services.
• Experience delivering migrations from on-premises environments or other clouds to OCI.
• Hands-on Terraform experience with the OCI provider.
• Experience with Kubernetes or OKE and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Database technologies, including RAC, Data Guard, ASM, RMAN, and GoldenGate.
• Linux administration, shell scripting, and scripting or automation experience with Python, Bash, or Go.
• Strong understanding of DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and network peering.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and communicate with stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• OCI Architect Associate, OCI Architect Professional, OCI DevOps Professional, or OCI Database Professional certification is preferred.
• AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certification is preferred.
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, or Fusion Middleware on OCI is preferred.
• Familiarity with OCI Cost Analysis, Budgets, and FinOps practices is preferred.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux, or policy-as-code tools such as OPA or Sentinel, is preferred.
• Knowledge of Oracle Autonomous Database, ITIL Foundation, managed services, or consulting delivery is preferred.