Senior Cloud Engineer - OCI

Description

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Cloud Engineer – OCI to play a key role within the Professional Services (PS) team by designing and delivering complex, enterprise-grade OCI solutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and client-facing capabilities.

In addition to hands-on technical delivery, you will actively participate in client discussions, translating business requirements into actionable designs, and present recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Your work will directly impact the success of strategic cloud projects, helping clients maximize the value and resilience of their OCI environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex and scalable OCI architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services.
• Lead technical workstreams within large, multi-phased migration or modernization projects.
• Conduct OCI architecture reviews and provide recommendations to improve clients' cloud environments.
• Design and implement secure networking architectures on OCI, ensuring high availability and compliance.
• Develop infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, and scripting languages like Python.
• Lead or support migrations to OCI using native migration services, tools, and best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across compute, networking, databases, and storage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and present technical solutions to internal and client stakeholders.
• Provide technical mentorship to mid-level engineers, promoting best practices in design and delivery.
• Document technical designs, implementation plans, and operational runbooks.
• Support DevOps initiatives, CI/CD pipelines, and automation to increase efficiency and consistency.

Requirements

• Overall 10+ years of technology experience.
• 4–6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure and systems engineering.
• Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Strong hands-on experience in OCI migration tools and frameworks; experience with RackWare is required
• Experience with Oracle database migrations to OCI (Autonomous DB or DB Systems).
• Strong knowledge of OCI networking, compute, storage, databases, IAM, and high availability design
• Good understanding of OCI disaster recovery, backup strategies, and cross-region deployments
• Solid Linux (Oracle/RHEL) and Windows Server administration skills
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerized workloads
• Experience in multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid cloud setups
• Excellent communication and client interaction skills
• OCI Architect Professional certification preferred
• Knowledge of Terraform, OCI CLI, and automation scripting (Shell, Python, PowerShell)
• Computer Science or Engineering graduate.