OCI Architect

About the role

Centroid is Oracle Corporation's top Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) partner in North America, delivering architecture, implementation and modernization initiatives in OCI for our customers. Our architects work directly alongside Centroid’s and client teams to design, migrate, and modernize mission-critical workloads- Oracle Databases, EBS, PeopleSoft, and next-generation AI/Data, Agentic AI, OCI genAI Platform solutions on OCI.

Responsibilities

• Owning solution design end-to-end, guiding technical decisions, and delivering production-grade implementations for OCI solutions for customer engagements spanning landing zone design, network topology, identity, compute, storage, and database tiers.
• Leading Oracle Database workload migrations to OCI, including Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database (ADB), and Base Database Service, with a focus on performance, HA, and DR.
• Designing and executing Oracle Applications migrations (EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) to OCI, including lift-and-shift and modernization patterns.
• Architecting and deploying AI/Data Platform (AIDP) workloads leveraging OCI GenAI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, and Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search.
• Building and maintaining OCI landing zones using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, aligned to Oracle's CIS Foundations Benchmark.
• Collaborating with Oracle technical teams (STCs, Cloud Engineers) on joint client engagements; serving as the technical point of escalation for Centroid.
• Defining standards, reusable patterns, and architectural guardrails for Centroid's OCI delivery practice.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in customer-facing infrastructure or cloud architecture roles.
• 5+ years of hands-on OCI design and implementation experience.

Qualifications

• Location: 100% Remote
• Job Type: Full Time employee, CTH, or Contract
• Absolutely no people management responsibilities.

Skills

• Preferred: OCI Core Services Compute, Networking, Storage, IAM, Kubernetes, Oracle Database & Exadata Autonomous Database (ADB-S, ADB-D), Base Database Service, Exadata Cloud Service, Exadata Cloud@Customer, Data Guard (Maximum Availability, Maximum Performance), GoldenGate for live migration and zero-downtime cutovers, Oracle Database 23ai: JSON Relational Duality, True Cache, AI Vector Search, Select AIDatabase migration tools, Oracle Applications (Migrations to OCI) EBS 12.1/12.2 on OCI, Oracle Application experience, like Peoplesoft or JDE, AI / GenAI / Data Platform OCI Generative AI Service, Cohere and Meta model endpoints, embedding models, semantic search patterns, OCI AI Agents, agent frameworks, tool configuration, RAG pipelines, knowledge base integration, OCI Data Science, model deployment, JupyterLab environments, ML pipelines, Aqua (AI Quick Actions), Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search: VECTOR data type, HNSW/IVF indexes, vector distance functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) - required within 90 days if not already held.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (1Z0-997) - strongly preferred.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Professional (1Z0-1127) - preferred.
• Oracle Exadata Database Machine Implementation Specialist - preferred for Exadata-focused engagements.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Lift projects.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent field - or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years total technical experience; 5+ years OCI-specific hands-on delivery.