Senior Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI Engineer

Location: Phoenix, Arizona • Contract • 8am to 5pm

About the role

The Senior Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Engineer designs, builds, and governs the enterprise Oracle Cloud platform. The role leads the OCI Landing Zone, establishes cloud architecture standards, develops reusable design patterns, and provides technical leadership across cloud engineering initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the OCI Landing Zone.
• Define tenancy compartment strategy and governance.
• Lead Governance, Risk, and Compliance aligned with cloud security principles.
• Design enterprise networking, IAM, and security architecture.
• Develop enterprise Terraform standards and reusable modules.
• Lead architecture reviews and mentor engineers.
• Drive observability, resilience, cost optimization, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of infrastructure engineering experience, including 4–6 years designing enterprise OCI platforms and landing zones.
• Proven technical leadership experience delivering an enterprise OCI Landing Zone, establishing governance and security guardrails, publishing reusable architecture patterns, enabling secure self-service cloud consumption, and serving as the technical authority for OCI.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in OCI Compute, Networking, IAM, Storage, Fast Connect, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, Zero Trust, Cloud Governance, and Compliance.

Skills

• Cloud architecture and engineering
• Cloud security principles
• Compute, Networking, IAM, CI/CD
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Design patterns and Terraform
• Zero Trust and resilience
• Architecture reviews and cost optimization
• Governance, Risk, and Compliance
• Technical leadership and mentoring
• Enterprise networking and operational excellence

Pay

$50 – 60 per hour

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• AD&D and life insurance
• Short-term disability
• 401K plan