OCI Cloud Infrastructure Architect/Specialist

Location: Business Service Center, New York, NY | Duration: Long Term

About the role

The Cloud Infrastructure Architect/Specialist will provide architecture, engineering, implementation, migration, and operational support for PeopleSoft and its supporting Oracle technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The consultant will be responsible for designing, building, configuring, securing, automating, and supporting highly available OCI environments. The supported technology stack includes PeopleSoft, Oracle WebCenter Content and Imaging Suite, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Database, and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). The consultant will assess the current on-premises environment, develop and implement the target-state OCI architecture, and support the migration of application, middleware, database, integration, identity-management, and content-management components to OCI.

Responsibilities

• Configure OCI compute, storage, networking, load balancing, DNS, identity and access management, security, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery
• Design, build, and support OKE clusters and containerized workloads, including cluster networking, ingress, persistent storage, certificates, secrets, monitoring, and security
• Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, scripting, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with application development, PeopleSoft administration, database, middleware, network, cybersecurity, cloud, and operations teams
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical workshops, environment builds, migration testing, production cutovers, disaster recovery exercises, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and production support
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, technical designs, migration plans, build procedures, configuration documents, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge-transfer materials
• Support production implementations, cutovers, disaster recovery exercises, and critical incidents outside normal business hours when required

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of cloud, infrastructure engineering, or technical architecture experience
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on OCI architecture, engineering, or administration experience
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, or supporting enterprise OCI environments for mission-critical applications
• Experience supporting migration of PeopleSoft and Oracle middleware workloads to OCI
• Strong knowledge of OCI networking, compute, storage, load balancing, IAM, DNS, monitoring, logging, backup, security, and disaster recovery
• Experience with Oracle WebCenter Content and Imaging, Oracle Identity and Access Management, Oracle SOA Suite, WebLogic Server, Oracle Database, and OKE
• Strong understanding of VCNs, subnets, DRGs, FastConnect, routing, firewalls, network security groups, DNS, TLS certificates, and hybrid-cloud connectivity
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, OKE, ingress, persistent storage, certificates, and secrets management
• Strong technical knowledge of PeopleSoft, Oracle middleware, OCI networking, Linux, Kubernetes, automation, high availability, security, backup, and disaster recovery
• OCI professional-level certification strongly preferred

Skills

• Linux — 6+ years
• Oracle OCI — 6+ years
• Oracle Web Server — 6+ years
• Red Hat Linux — 6+ years
• UNIX — 6+ years
• Unix Shell Scripting — 6+ years
• DEC UNIX — 6+ years
• SCO UNIX — 6+ years
• Windows Server 2016/2019/2012/2008/2003 — 6+ years
• Oracle — 6+ years
• Unix Administration — 6+ years
• Enterprise Content Management — 6+ years
• Oracle Database Management — 6+ years
• Oracle DBA — 6+ years
• Oracle Forms — 6+ years
• Oracle Reports — 6+ years
• Web Content — 6+ years