AI Platform Engineer (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) #26-22641

Duration: 12 months
Summary:
This role requires a combination of cloud infrastructure application security container networking identity and access management and software engineering skills. The candidate will work closely with AI developers integration engineers cybersecurity personnel DevSecOps engineers DBAs and infrastructure teams to ensure AI applications can operate securely within hardened Federal and DoD cloud environments. This includes modifying application configuration deployment patterns authentication and authorization approaches integrations and supporting infrastructure as needed to meet security and operational requirements. As a valued member of the team you will help establish secure and scalable AI capabilities for mission-critical Federal Government systems.

• Design deploy configure secure and maintain AI application environments within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Adapt existing containerized applications and supporting services for deployment within secured and hardened OCI environments.
• Design and implement secure OCI networking including Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs) private subnets routing Network Security Groups (NSGs) private endpoints DNS and connectivity to enterprise services and data sources.
• Implement and maintain identity authentication and authorization capabilities using OCI IAM and approved enterprise identity-management technologies.
• Work with application developers to modify authentication authorization session management service identities and application configuration as required to meet Federal and DoD security requirements.
• Design secure service-to-service communication between web applications AI services large language models APIs databases integration services and other enterprise resources.
• Deploy and support containerized applications using Docker Kubernetes/Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) OCI Container Registry (OCIR) or comparable container technologies.
• Configure and secure AI application access to approved LLM services APIs enterprise applications databases and other supporting services.
• Implement secure patterns for AI tool and data integrations including controlled access to enterprise services and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based connections where applicable.
• Apply least-privilege access network segmentation encryption secrets management certificate management and other security controls across AI application environments.
• Configure and manage OCI Vault keys certificates secrets service credentials and other sensitive application configuration.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or comparable technologies to create repeatable controlled and auditable cloud environments.
• Integrate platform deployment with source control CI/CD pipelines automated builds security scanning artifact management configuration management and release processes.
• Configure application and infrastructure logging monitoring audit trails metrics alerts and operational dashboards.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement security controls hardening requirements vulnerability remediation access restrictions audit requirements and other compliance measures.
• Troubleshoot issues across application configuration OCI networking IAM containers certificates APIs service connectivity authentication authorization and cloud infrastructure.
• Participate in application and architecture reviews to identify security deployment networking authentication and integration changes needed for successful cloud implementation.
• Develop reusable platform standards security patterns Terraform modules deployment templates technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Participate in Agile/SAFe activities including PI Planning backlog refinement technical reviews demonstrations testing release readiness and production support.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance required
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Cybersecurity Engineering or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 5 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure platform engineering DevSecOps cloud security application infrastructure or related engineering experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) including networking compute IAM storage security logging monitoring and cloud-native application services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking including VCNs/VPCs subnets routing DNS security groups firewalls private endpoints service connectivity and hybrid connectivity.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management authentication authorization least-privilege access service identities secrets management certificates and encryption.
• Experience deploying and supporting containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes/OKE or comparable technologies.
• Experience working with web application architectures and understanding how application authentication authorization APIs services and infrastructure interact.
• Experience modifying application configuration deployment architecture or supporting code to meet cloud security networking identity or operational requirements.
• Experience using Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code technology to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with CI/CD source control automated builds vulnerability scanning logging monitoring and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application cloud container networking IAM and integration layers.

• Experience deploying or securing artificial intelligence generative AI machine learning or data-intensive applications in OCI or another enterprise cloud environment.
• Experience with OCI Generative AI OCI Generative AI Agents OCI Data Science or related Oracle AI services.
• Experience with OCI IAM policies dynamic groups resource principals identity domains OAuth/OIDC API authentication and service-to-service authorization.
• Experience with OCI Vault Certificates Cloud Guard Security Zones Logging Monitoring private endpoints and related OCI security services.
• Experience with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) OCI Container Registry (OCIR) OCI Functions and API Gateway.
• Experience integrating containerized applications with large language models APIs databases enterprise services or AI tool frameworks.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) AI agent tool integration or comparable approaches for securely connecting AI applications to enterprise systems and data sources.
• Experience securing web applications that require changes to commercial or enterprise authentication and authorization patterns to operate within hardened environments.
• Knowledge of AI-specific security concerns including prompt injection excessive permissions sensitive-data exposure insecure tool access and service-to-service authorization.
• Working knowledge of Python Bash PowerShell OCI CLI OCI SDKs or comparable scripting and automation technologies.
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments and using Clienture DevOps (ADO) or a similar lifecycle-management tool.
• Experience supporting secured Federal or DoD enterprise systems is preferred.
• OCI Architect OCI Security Kubernetes Terraform cloud security or related certification is a plus.

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