OCI Architect

About the role

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
• Engaging with various customers in their cloud enablement initiatives
• Architecting end-to-end 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
• Developing and presenting technical architectures, reference designs, and migration runbooks for client pre-sales and delivery engagements
• 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

• Location: 100% Remote
• Job Type: Full Time employee, CTH, or Contract
• 10+ years of experience in customer-facing infrastructure or cloud architecture roles
• 5+ years of hands-on OCI design and implementation experience

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 (Migrations to OCI): EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards
• AI / GenAI / Data Platform: OCI Generative AI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search
• Technical Skills: Multi-cloud connectivity, Oracle WebLogic Server on OCI, ZFS Storage Appliance on OCI, Observability, FinOps

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
• 10+ years total technical experience; 5+ years OCI-specific hands-on delivery

What Sets This Role Apart

You will work on OCI exclusively with 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, 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. If you are an OCI practitioner who wants to do the most technically demanding Oracle Cloud work available, this role is built for you.