Oracle Services – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect

Our mission is to accelerate customer success and help organizations unlock the full value of their Oracle Cloud investments. As a strategic end-to-end cloud partner we focus on delivering measurable business outcomes not just technology implementations.

With more than 1500 successful Oracle Cloud projects delivered across EMEA we combine deep expertise proven methodologies and global scale to provide solutions with speed efficiency and predictability. Our team across EMEA and JAPAC collaborates through our One Oracle approach reducing risk and maximizing return on investment for our clients.

We take a holistic view of each clients business to ensure transformation initiatives drive real sustainable impact and continuous innovation.

Join us and become a vital part of a team that connects Oracles technology to the millions of businesses ready to evolve. You will be at the forefront of strategic cloud transformation and business analytics conversations shaping the future of digital enterprise.

Oracle Services is seeking a customer-facing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect to lead the architecture design and delivery of secure scalable cloud solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This role partners directly with client stakeholders to define cloud strategy and target architectures guide migrations and modernization and ensure solutions align with enterprise requirements for security reliability performance and compliance.

The successful candidate will also support pre-sales activities create customer-facing presentations run workshops gather requirements advise customers and provide technical leadership across delivery teams.

Candidates with equivalent security architecture/engineering experience inAWS Azure or GCPwill be considered with a demonstratedwillingness to cross-train to OCI.

What Youll Do

Client Advisory & Architecture Ownership

• Lead customer discovery sessions to capture requirements constraints current-state topology and operational needs.
• Define target-state OCI architectures and migration/modernization roadmaps document decisions and trade-offs.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for architecturebuilding trust with customer architects security and operations teams.

OCI Core Architecture (Landing Zone / Shared Services)

Architect and guide implementation of OCI landing zones including:

• Tenancy design: compartment strategy tagging quotas guardrails cost controls
• Identity & access: IAM policies groups dynamic groups federation/SSO least-privilege design
• Networking: VCN/subnet design routing NSGs security lists DNS load balancing connectivity via VPN/FastConnect
• Security services: Vault/KMS secrets encryption audit/logging vulnerability management patterns
• Observability: Monitoring Logging Alarms dashboards operational telemetry

HPC / AI Infrastructure (GPU & Cluster Technologies)

• Experience designing building or operatinghigh performance compute (HPC) / AI clusters including workload scheduling considerations performance tuning and operational readiness.
• Strong understanding ofGPU technologies and GPU-accelerated workloads (e.g. sizing scaling throughput/latency considerations GPU node configuration and cluster topology).
• Familiarity with high-performance storage patterns for AI/HPC workloads includingLustre filesystems (or equivalent parallel/distributed file systems) and data throughput optimization.

Kubernetes / OKE (Container Platform Engineering)

• Hands-on experience withKubernetes concepts and operations including cluster architecture namespaces RBAC network policies ingress and workload deployment patterns.
• OCI experience withOracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) preferred (or equivalent managed Kubernetes services in AWS/Azure/GCP with willingness to cross-train to OKE).
• Experience securing Kubernetes platforms (identity integration secrets management image/security controls and cluster hardening) and integrating with CI/CD and IaC.

OCI Observability Monitoring Log Analytics & Graphing

• Strong experience implementing and operationalizingOCI Observability & Monitoring including metrics alarms dashboards and operational runbooks.
• Experience withOCI Logging / Log Analytics use cases such as central log collection parsing alerting correlation and supporting incident response.
• Ability to build effectivegraphing/dashboards for executive and operational audiences (service health SLO/SLA reporting capacity/performance and security monitoring views).

OCI Networking Security & IAM (Emphasis)

• Strong working knowledge ofOCI networking (VCNs subnets routing DRGs/FastConnect/VPN patterns segmentation) and secure connectivity designs.
• Strong working knowledge ofOCI security and IAM including compartment strategy least-privilege policy design federation/SSO concepts dynamic groups and guardrails.

Storage Services (OCI)

• Strong understanding of OCI storage services and selection criteria includingBlock VolumeFile StorageObject Storage and archival/backup patterns.
• Ability to design for performance durability and cost (IOPS/throughput multi-AD considerations where applicable) including encryption and access-control patterns.
• Experience integrating storage with compute and Kubernetes/OKE workloads (dynamic provisioning mount patterns lifecycle and backup/restore procedures).

OCI Database Services (Foundational)

• Basic understanding of OCI database service options and how they are deployed and operated including:
  • Oracle Database on OCI (e.g. DB Systems/managed offerings) andAutonomous Database concepts
  • Familiarity withnon-traditional database services in OCI and common use cases including:
    • NoSQL databases (key-value / document patterns low-latency access horizontal scale considerations)
    • Graph database concepts and use cases (relationship-centric modeling fraud/identity network analysis)
    • MySQL services and operational considerations (HA backup/restore patching connectivity performance basics)
  • Core operational practices: provisioning patching/maintenance concepts backup/restore encryption and auditing
• Ability to collaborate with DBAs/application teams to ensure secure configuration and operational readiness including integration with IAM Vault/KMS logging and DR plans.

Migration & Modernization

• Architect and oversee migrations to OCI (lift-and-shift re-platform selective re architecture).
• Define modernization approaches leveraging OKE/Kubernetes automation and managed services where appropriate.
• Design hybrid patterns integrating on-prem and third-party services (network identity and data flows).

Reliability Operations & Full-Stack Disaster Recovery (DR) & Resilience

• Experience designing and implementingend-to-end DR across application platform data and network layers on OCI.
• Define and validateRTO/RPO DR tiers/patterns (active/active active/passive warm standby) and DR operational processes (runbooks testing cutover/failback).
• Design multi-region and/or multi-availability domain resilience patterns including:
  • Network and IAM considerations for failover
  • Observability/monitoring for DR readiness
  • Automation for recovery (Terraform CI/CD orchestration where needed)

Automation / DevOps

Build repeatable secure deployments using:

• Terraform(modules environments state management drift detection)
• CI/CDpipelines (e.g.Jenkins) with security gates and approvals
• GitOpsworkflows (PR-based change control promotion across environments)
• Ansiblefor configuration management and orchestration

Delivery & Leadership

• Provide hands-on technical leadership: review designs guide implementation and troubleshoot complex issues.
• Produce high-quality deliverables (HLD/LLD implementation plans migration plans cutover plans).
• Collaborate across security network app and data teams; manage technical risks and dependencies.
• Contribute to estimations and work plans; support proposal/contract input when needed.
• Lead small delivery teams coordinate work and ensure high implementation quality.
• Mentor team members on OCI services automation standards and delivery patterns.

Documentation customer advisory and pre-sales

• Create customer-ready documentation including:
• Architecture artifacts (current state/target state reference architectures security patterns)
• High-Level Designs (HLDs)andLow-Level Designs (LLDs)
• Runbooks/SOPs deployment guides handover documentation troubleshooting guides
• Gather requirements and lead discovery with customer stakeholders (security compliance networking identity operations).
• Run customer workshops (landing zone/security design sessions IAM/network segmentation working sessions threat modeling discussions).
• Support pre-sales by contributing to solutioning estimates delivery approach and customer presentations/briefings.
• Understand competitive landscape and communicateopportunities to up-sell based on product expertise.
• Liaise with the Oracle ecosystem (Account Teams Sales Consulting Product teams communities cross-LOB teams).

What Youll Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant degreeorat least6 years of industry experienceina similar role.

Required Experience

• 610 years in cloud/infrastructure architecture systems engineering or related roles with meaningfulcustomer-facing responsibility.
• Strong hands-on experience architecting and deliveringOCI environments used in production.
• Deep expertise in enterprise networking and security (segmentation routing IAM encryption logging/auditing).
• Experience withInfrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred) and CI/CD/automation practices.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical teams and leadership; comfortable leading workshops and technical reviews.
• Experience producing professional customer deliverables:architectures HLDs LLDs and operational documentation.
• Experience running workshops gathering requirements advising customers and supporting pre-sales engagements.

Required Technical Skills

• OCI Architect Professional (or equivalent demonstrated expertise).
• Experience withOKE/Kubernetes container platforms and platform engineering patterns.
• Migration program experience (assessment wave planning cutover rollback strategy).
• Experience supporting Oracle workloads (Oracle Database/Autonomous/Exadata Cloud Service) and enterprise integrations.
• Familiarity with security/compliance frameworks and controls mapping in regulated environments.
• OCI: compartments IAM VCN design FastConnect/VPN Load Balancer WAF (where applicable) Vault/KMS Monitoring/Logging
• Security: least privilege encryption secrets mgmt auditability secure network patterns
• Reliability: HA/DR design backup/restore observability and operations readiness
• Delivery: architecture documentation stakeholder management troubleshooting mentoring
• Automation/DevOps: Terraform Jenkins GitOps Ansible.

Cloud Provider Equivalency / Cross-Training

• Equivalent experience withAWS Azure or GCPsecurity services and architecture will be considered with willingness to cross-train to OCI.

Desired Attributes

• Confident andassertive
• Positive attitude
• Self-starter comfortable working autonomously
• Ability to empathize with customers and understand their perspectives
• Skilled at balancing customer needs with Oracles objectives
• Willingness to take initiative and assist wherever needed
• Team player who actively seeks innovative ways to enhance customer service
• Must be UK Citizen and hold current Security Clearance or ability to obtain

What Well Offer

• Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Structured onboarding and personalized training including induction.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements for optimal work-life balance.
• Opportunity to work with modern technology stacks and collaborate with global teams.
• Defined career development pathways mentorship and continuous learning programs.
• Inclusive work environment that values diversity and individual contributions.

Career Level - IC4