OIC Cloud Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced OIC Cloud Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud environments on Oracle’s next-generation public cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade OCI landing zones, compartments, and tenancy structures aligned with internal governance and compliance standards.
• Design and implement OCI networking topologies, including VCNs, subnets, gateways, FastConnect, IPSec VPN, and DRG-based hub-and-spoke architectures.
• Build and maintain OCI infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, with version control, peer review, and automated validation.
• Implement IAM policies, federation with corporate identity providers, and strong RBAC patterns using OCI Identity Domains.
• Design and operate OCI compute (VMs, bare-metal, OKE for Kubernetes) and storage services (Object, Block, File, Archive) optimized for workload patterns.
• Operate OCI database services, including Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud, MySQL HeatWave, and Base Database, in close partnership with DBA teams.
• Build CI/CD pipelines on OCI DevOps service or external platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) for both infrastructure and applications.
• Implement observability using OCI Monitoring, Logging, APM, and integrations with third-party observability stacks.
• Drive ongoing cost optimization through right-sizing, lifecycle management, and architectural simplification.
• Design disaster-recovery and business-continuity solutions across OCI regions and availability domains.
• Strengthen security posture using OCI Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault, and Data Safe, and lead remediation of findings.
• Advise application development teams on OCI-native design patterns and best practices.
• Develop automation tooling in Python, Bash, and Terraform to reduce operational toil.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal cloud communities of practice.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of cloud engineering experience, with strong hands-on time on OCI.
• Production-level experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Solid experience with OCI compute, networking, storage, identity, and database services.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for cloud workloads.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with observability tooling and incident response.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional certification.
• Experience operating Oracle Exadata Cloud or Autonomous Database at scale.
• Exposure to multi-cloud architectures spanning OCI and AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices on OCI.
• Experience operating regulated workloads on OCI.