Job Title: OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) Architect
Location: Richmond VA (Onsite preferred; nearby candidates strongly considered)
Visa: No Constraints
Job Type: W2
Experience: 8 years IT; 3 years hands-on cloud (OCI preferred)
About the Role: You will design review and implement Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and solution offerings. This role partners with customer agencies managed cloud suppliers and internal teams to ensure environments are efficient secure compliant and aligned to OCI best practices and well-architected frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect implement and optimize OCI landing zones and workloads (compartments policies IAM network compute storage database monitoring).
- Perform architecture and security reviews for proposed changes/projects; document risks mitigations and recommendations.
- Champion best practices / well-architected principles across reliability performance cost security and operations.
- Collaborate with agencies managed service providers and internal stakeholders to align architecture to business priorities and compliance requirements.
- Create design artifacts (HLD/LLD) runbooks and standards; present solutions to technical and executive audiences.
- Guide migrations and implementations of OS/applications into OCI; ensure operational readiness (backup DR observability).
- Support governance: cost management tagging guardrails policy controls and change management.
Required Qualifications:
- 8 years forward-thinking IT experience with enterprise systems.
- 3 years hands-on public cloud experience (OCI strongly preferred).
- Proven cloud architecture operations and management background in OCI.
- Experience conducting security reviews and assessing change impacts on the IT environment.
- Practical experience implementing/migrating/managing OS/applications in enterprise cloud.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking architectures: VCNs/virtual networks VPN subnets network security groups route tables load balancers private/public endpoints.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to translate architecture into business value.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science/IT or equivalent experience.
Preferred / Nice to Have
- Oracle OCI certifications (Architect Associate/Professional Security Networking).
- Familiarity with OCI services such as IAM & Policies Cloud Guard WAF Logging/Monitoring/Alarms Object & Block Storage Compute OKE/Functions Bastions Data Safe/Database services.
- Experience with governance & compliance frameworks and cost optimization.
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