OCI Architect

About the role

This is a senior, hands-on technical role where you will serve as the primary OCI architect on client engagements. You will own solution design end-to-end, guide technical decisions, and deliver production-grade implementations.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end OCI solutions for customer engagements spanning landing zone design, network topology, identity, compute, storage, and database tiers
• Lead 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
• Design and execute Oracle Applications migrations (EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) to OCI, including lift-and-shift and modernization patterns
• Architect and deploy AI/Data Platform (AIDP) workloads leveraging OCI GenAI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, and Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search
• Develop and present technical architectures, reference designs, and migration runbooks for client pre-sales and delivery engagements
• Build and maintain OCI landing zones using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, aligned to Oracle's CIS Foundations Benchmark
• Collaborate with Oracle technical teams (STCs, Cloud Engineers) on joint client engagements; serve as the technical point of escalation for Centroid
• Define 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

Location

100% Remote

Job Type

Full Time employee, CTH, or Contract

Skills Preferred

• OCI Core Services: Compute, Networking, Storage, IAM, Kubernetes
• Oracle Database & Exadata: Autonomous Database, Data Guard, Oracle Database 23ai, Database Migration Tools
• Oracle Applications: EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards
• AI / GenAI / Data Platform: OCI Generative AI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (1Z0-997)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Professional (1Z0-1127)
• Oracle Exadata Database Machine Implementation Specialist
• 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

What Sets This Role Apart

You will work on OCI exclusively with the ability to learn and engage with emerging technologies like multi-cloud architecture, Agentic AI and Generative AI. Centroid's clients engage us because of deep Oracle expertise, and you will architect solutions that Oracle's own SCs reference, participate in Oracle partner programs, and shape how enterprise customers realize value from OCI's most advanced capabilities.