OCI Engineer

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities 1. Role Purpose The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day build, configuration, operation and support of cloud infrastructure services, with a primary focus on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The role applies approved architecture patterns, automation and operational standards to deliver secure, available and cost-efficient cloud environments. The cloud platform engineer works with limited supervision on routine to moderately complex tasks, supports senior engineers on larger initiatives, and contributes to migration, modernization and continuous-improvement activities. Working knowledge of at least one secondary public cloud (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) and adjacent tooling such as Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines is expected. 2. Key Responsibilities • Provision and configure OCI resources (Compute, Block/Object/FSS Storage, VCN, Load Balancer, DBCS, ADB) following approved designs and landing-zone patterns. • Configure networking (VCN, subnets, route tables, security lists/NSGs, gateways, FastConnect/IPSec VPN, DNS) and apply standard tagging, naming and cost-allocation conventions. • Support deployments and releases across environments using CI/CD pipelines (OCI DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps). • Author and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Terraform / OCI Resource Manager) and automation scripts (Ansible, Bash, Python) for recurring tasks – patching, certificate rotation, snapshots, environment refresh. • Monitor platform health and respond to alerts and incidents within SLAs using OCI Monitoring, OCI Logging, APM and enterprise tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace). • Execute routine operations – patching, backups, capacity checks, certificate renewals and drift remediation; participate in on-call and change windows. • Apply security controls (IAM policies, MFA, OCI Vault/KMS, encryption, segmentation, Bastion) and validate guardrails using Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vulnerability Scanning and Data Safe. • Execute access management (user lifecycle, role assignment, service accounts, periodic reviews) and support audit / compliance evidence gathering. • Assist with workload migration (lift-and-shift, re-platform) to OCI, environment setup and hypercare; support application teams deploying onto OCI (Oracle DB, WebLogic, OKE, Functions, API Gateway). • Contribute to cost optimization (right-sizing, scheduling, unused-resource cleanup) and maintain runbooks, configuration records and operational documentation. 3. OCI-Specific Technical Skills Core Infrastructure: Compute (VM, BM, Flex, Pools, Autoscaling); Block / Object / Archive / FSS Storage; VCN, subnets, Security Lists vs NSGs, Route Tables, IGW/NAT/Service Gateways, DRG, Peering, FastConnect, IPSec VPN, OCI DNS, Traffic Management, LB / NLB, WAF. Identity, Security & Governance: OCI IAM – compartments, policies, groups, dynamic groups, identity domains, federation (Azure AD / Okta), instance & resource principals. Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault (KMS & Secrets), Vulnerability Scanning, Bastion, Data Safe, Audit. Tagging, Budgets, Quotas, Cost Analysis. Database & Data Services: DBCS, ExaCS / ExaCC (operational); Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW); MySQL HeatWave, OCI Cache (Redis), NoSQL DB (awareness); Data Pump, GoldenGate basics, Database Migration Service. Application & Developer Services: OKE (clusters, node pools, networking, upgrades); OCIR, Functions, API Gateway, Events, Notifications, Streaming, Queue; OCI DevOps (repos, build & deployment pipelines, artifacts); Resource Manager (managed Terraform), Stacks, drift detection. Observability & Operations: OCI Monitoring (metrics, alarms), Logging, Logging Analytics, Service Connector Hub, APM, OS Management Hub, Operations Insights; Block Volume backup policies, cross-region replication, Full Stack DR (awareness). Tooling & Interfaces: OCI Console, OCI CLI, OCI SDKs (Python / Java), Cloud Shell, Terraform OCI provider, REST APIs and signed requests. 4. Other Relevant Cloud & Platform Technical Skills:- Secondary Public Cloud: Working knowledge in at least one of AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, EKS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch), Azure (VM, Storage, VNet, Entra ID, AKS, ARM/Bicep, Monitor) or Google Cloud (GCE, GCS, VPC, IAM, GKE, Cloud Monitoring). 5. Qualifications, Experience & Certifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. • 3 – 6 years hands-on cloud / platform engineering experience; minimum 2 years on OCI (or strong equivalent cloud depth with demonstrable OCI exposure); production operations and change-management experience. • Required (at least one OCI Associate certification): OCI Foundations Associate (1Z0-1085) plus OCI Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) or OCI Operations Associate (1Z0-1067). • Preferred: OCI Architect Professional (1Z0-997); a second-cloud certification (AWS SAA, Azure AZ-104, GCP ACE); HashiCorp Terraform Associate; CKA; Linux certification (RHCSA / Oracle Linux). Desired Candidate Profile Company Industry IT - Software Services Department / Functional Area IT Software Keywords OCI Engineer Get real-time job updates only on our App