Cloud Adoption Engineer — Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence

Oracle•Reston, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Cloud Adoption Engineer to help U.S. Federal Government customers establish secure, scalable, operationally ready Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments. The role focuses on cloud foundation readiness, including tenancy design, networking, identity, security, governance, observability, and automation. The engineer assesses customer readiness and technical dependencies, designs foundational architectures, develops reusable infrastructure code, provides implementation guidance, and helps establish clear operational ownership. The engineer owns the quality and completion of assigned Cloud Adoption Engineering deliverables, working with the Senior Manager of Cloud Adoption Engineering and relevant technical specialists. The role coordinates application implementation, migration execution, and ongoing production operations with the teams responsible for those activities. The position is hybrid, combining remote work, in-office work, and meetings at client sites; candidates must be based in the greater Washington, DC area. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly and U.S. citizenship. The role helps customers understand adoption requirements, dependencies, risks, and next steps. It produces actionable foundation designs, repeatable infrastructure deployments, evidence-based readiness recommendations, and operational handoff materials that support a sustainable path to OCI adoption.

Requirements

Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly.
Five or more years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, architecture, or technical delivery.
Hands-on experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience designing, implementing, or assessing enterprise cloud foundations.
Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, compute, storage, and observability.
Experience assessing customer environments, workload dependencies, and migration requirements.
Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and environment-specific configurations.
Experience using Python to develop scripts that configure cloud resources, integrate APIs, validate deployments, and automate operational tasks.
Experience managing infrastructure code in Git-based repositories, including branching, pull requests, peer review, and version control.
Experience troubleshooting infrastructure deployments and automation, including configuration errors, resource dependencies, permissions, and failed provisioning.
Ability to translate requirements into architecture designs, implementation guidance, and readiness recommendations.
Strong customer discovery, technical facilitation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
Understanding of federal cloud security and compliance requirements and their implications for architecture and operational readiness.
Ability to manage assigned technical work, communicate risks, and coordinate across customer and delivery teams.
Must be a U.S. citizen.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting U.S. Federal Government customers.
OCI expertise across tenancy design, landing zones, networking, identity federation, and security operations integration.
Experience with OCI Resource Manager, OCI CLI, and OCI SDKs.
Experience integrating infrastructure deployments with CI/CD pipelines and automated validation.
Familiarity with Shell scripting, Ansible, or other configuration management and automation tools.
Experience with Oracle applications, databases, middleware, or VMware environments.
Familiarity with FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN, enterprise identity providers, and SIEM/SOC integration.
Knowledge of cloud governance, cost accountability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
Relevant cloud architecture, networking, security, or automation certifications.

Responsibilities

Engage customer stakeholders to understand mission objectives, business drivers, technical environments, and adoption priorities.
Lead discovery across applications, databases, infrastructure, networking, identity, security, operations, governance, and automation.
Assess workload dependencies, migration suitability, technical constraints, and foundational requirements; document gaps, risks, recommendations, accountable owners, and target dates.
Recommend adoption sequencing and migration-readiness actions based on technical dependencies and customer priorities.
Translate customer requirements into secure, resilient, implementation-ready OCI foundation architectures.
Design tenancy and compartment structures, landing zones, environment separation, naming, tagging, governance, and cost controls.
Develop network designs covering VCNs, subnets, routing, DNS, segmentation, and hybrid connectivity.
Guide identity federation, access policies, least privilege, multifactor authentication, and emergency access arrangements.
Define logging, monitoring, security telemetry, alert routing, and integration with customer security operations.
Document architecture decisions, alternatives, tradeoffs, dependencies, and exceptions.
Develop, deploy, and maintain OCI foundation components using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager; create reusable modules and manage state, dependencies, and environment-specific configurations.
Develop Python scripts to integrate APIs, configure cloud resources, validate deployments, and automate repeatable tasks.
Manage infrastructure and automation code in Git-based repositories using branching, pull requests, and peer review.
Apply secure practices for credentials, secrets, access permissions, and deployment execution.
Troubleshoot provisioning failures, configuration errors, permissions, and infrastructure dependencies; document deployment procedures and enable teams to maintain and extend automation.
Translate architecture designs into implementation tasks with sequencing, ownership, and acceptance criteria; conduct technical working sessions, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises.
Collaborate with professional services, delivery partners, and customer engineers to resolve foundational implementation blockers and guide consistent, repeatable, sustainable deployment practices.
Review deployed foundations against agreed architecture and operational readiness criteria; validate connectivity, identity, security controls, logging, monitoring, and automation using documented evidence.
Track unresolved gaps and exceptions and ensure risks are addressed or formally accepted by accountable owners.
Prepare operational handoff packages covering architecture, infrastructure code, deployment procedures, runbooks, support paths, and outstanding actions; transfer knowledge and confirm operational ownership acceptance.
Use and improve shared discovery workbooks, readiness assessments, design templates, architecture decision records, and handoff checklists.
Apply Oracle documentation, reference architectures, training, and labs to customer needs; contribute reusable modules, scripts, engineering patterns, and lessons learned.
Maintain broad cloud adoption foundation capability while developing deeper expertise in networking, identity, security operations, or Infrastructure-as-Code.
Communicate progress, risks, recommendations, and decisions clearly to customer and Oracle stakeholders.