Senior Platform Engineer (OCI)

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and sustain OCI IaaS and PaaS services, including compute, storage, networking, load balancers, and database-related capabilities.
• Own and operate core OCI platform services such as tenancy architecture, compartments, networking patterns, access models, and shared operational standards.
• Create scalable, secure OCI solutions using cloud engineering best practices and reusable design patterns.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, or equivalent automation frameworks.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration management, patching, backup activities, and typical operational workflows.
• Administer and support Oracle platform services.
• Configure and manage OCI networking components, including VCNs, subnets, route tables, security lists, network security groups, and connectivity patterns.
• Build observability capabilities through monitoring, logging, alerting, and event-driven automation to improve reliability and visibility.
• Collaborate with IAM, database, application, and security teams to define secure, supportable, and well-governed platform solutions.
• Respond to operational incidents and complex technical issues; contribute to problem management and provide status updates to stakeholders.
• Support vulnerability remediation, secure configuration management, and control implementation across the OCI environment.
• Participate in security incident response activities and remediation for cloud platform services.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation for architecture, standards, procedures, support models, and runbooks.
• Provide day-to-day operational support and participate in an after-hours on-call rotation for business-critical services.
• Support release activities, platform upgrades, maintenance planning, validation testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise information security policies, procedures, and audit requirements; assist remediation of control gaps and process improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
• 5+ years of advanced hands-on OCI experience in a engineering or platform role.
• Strong knowledge of OCI core services across compute, storage, networking, security/identity, and database offerings.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and repeatable cloud provisioning practices.
• Hands-on DevOps automation experience, including CI/CD pipelines and scripting with Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, APIs, Python, PowerShell, and GitHub.
• Working knowledge of OCI PaaS services, preferably Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Fusion applications, and other Oracle platform offerings.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Autonomous Database services such as ATP and ADW.
• Experience with patching, backup, recovery, and ongoing operational maintenance in a cloud environment.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational observability practices in cloud platforms.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, platform services, networking, and integrations.
• Strong organizational, planning, communication, and time management skills.
• 5+ years of experience in a senior technical, engineering, or cloud platform role.

Technologies

• Terraform
• OCI Resource Manager
• Ansible
• APIs
• Python
• PowerShell
• GitHub
• Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
• Oracle Analytics Cloud
• Fusion applications
• Oracle Autonomous Database (ATP, ADW)
• OCI Vault
• CyberArk

What success looks like

• Platform reliability, security, and operational maturity improve through automation and standardized patterns.
• Manual effort is reduced by adopting reusable infrastructure designs and streamlined operational processes.
• Cross-team partnerships deliver stable, secure, and scalable OCI platform capabilities.
• The engineering culture emphasizes continuous improvement, ownership, and service excellence.

Hours

Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Locations

• 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180
• 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526
• 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602
• 9999 Willow Creek Road, San Diego, CA 92131
• 295 Bendix Road, Suite 250, Virginia Beach, VA 23452
• 11270 Saint Johns Industrial Parkway South, Jacksonville, FL 32246
• 3300 Olympus Boulevard, Suite 550, Dallas, TX 75019
• 4 Concourse Parkway, #100, Sandy Springs, GA 30328

Desired qualifications

• Oracle Cloud certifications are preferred.
• Experience with OCI governance concepts such as compartments, tagging, policy design, and platform standardization.
• Experience with secrets management and secure credential handling solutions such as OCI Vault or CyberArk.
• Hybrid or multi-cloud experience is a plus.
• Background in financial services or other highly regulated environments is preferred.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, security, IAM, database, and application support teams.