Cloud Specialist

Job Description • 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. Performance Measures • 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. • 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). • Competencies & Performance Measures Behavioral & Professional Competencies • Ownership and accountability – sees assigned work through to completion. • Problem solving – systematic diagnosis across infra, network and app layers. • Clear written and verbal communication with peers and stakeholders. • Collaboration with architecture, security, app and vendor teams. • Service mindset and respect for operational SLAs. • Continuous learning across cloud, automation and security. • Discipline – adherence to standards, documentation and change control. • Platform availability against SLOs on assigned services. • Quality and timeliness of provisioning, deployment and ops work. • Incident response effectiveness – MTTA / MTTR and RCA quality. • Adherence to security, compliance and change-management standards. • Contribution to automation, cost optimization and knowledge management. • Demonstrable skill growth in OCI and secondary cloud / tooling areas. • Working relationships – internal (CPE peers, Architects, Security, Networking, DBA, App teams) and external (Oracle Support, partners, vendors).

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).

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.