OCI Cloud Infrastructure Architect/Specialist

Nexiva•New York City, NY

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Cloud Infrastructure Architect/Specialist provides architecture, engineering, implementation, migration, and operational support for PeopleSoft and supporting Oracle technologies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The role designs, builds, configures, secures, automates, and supports highly available OCI environments for mission-critical applications. The technology stack includes PeopleSoft, Oracle WebCenter Content and Imaging Suite, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Database, and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). The consultant assesses the existing on-premises environment, develops and implements the target OCI architecture, and supports migration of application, middleware, database, integration, identity-management, and content-management components. The position configures OCI compute, storage, networking, load balancing, DNS, identity and access management, security, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery. It also designs, builds, and supports OKE clusters and containerized workloads, including cluster networking, ingress, persistent storage, certificates, secrets, monitoring, and security. The role implements infrastructure automation using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, scripting, Git, and CI/CD pipelines. It works closely with application development, PeopleSoft administration, database, middleware, network, cybersecurity, cloud, and operations teams, and participates in architecture reviews, technical workshops, environment builds, migration testing, production cutovers, disaster recovery exercises, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and production support. The consultant develops and maintains architecture diagrams, technical designs, migration plans, build procedures, configuration documents, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge-transfer materials. The consultant must be available to support production implementations, cutovers, disaster recovery exercises, and critical incidents outside normal business hours when required. This is a hybrid position at 2 Broadway, New York City, and the posting specifies candidates must be from New York or New Jersey.

Requirements

At least 10 years of cloud, infrastructure engineering, or technical architecture experience.
At least three years of hands-on OCI architecture, engineering, or administration experience.
Demonstrated experience designing, building, or supporting enterprise OCI environments for mission-critical applications.
Experience supporting migration of PeopleSoft and Oracle middleware workloads to OCI.
Strong knowledge of OCI networking, compute, storage, load balancing, IAM, DNS, monitoring, logging, backup, security, and disaster recovery.
Experience with Oracle WebCenter Content and Imaging, Oracle Identity and Access Management, Oracle SOA Suite, WebLogic Server, Oracle Database, and OKE.
Strong understanding of VCNs, subnets, DRGs, FastConnect, routing, firewalls, network security groups, DNS, TLS certificates, and hybrid-cloud connectivity.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, OKE, ingress, persistent storage, certificates, and secrets management.
Strong technical knowledge of PeopleSoft, Oracle middleware, OCI networking, Linux, Kubernetes, automation, high availability, security, backup, and disaster recovery.
Must be available to support production implementations, cutovers, disaster recovery exercises, and critical incidents outside normal business hours when required.
Candidates must be from New York or New Jersey.

Nice To Haves

OCI professional-level certification is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide architecture, engineering, implementation, migration, and operational support for PeopleSoft and supporting Oracle technologies on OCI.
Design, build, configure, secure, automate, and support highly available OCI environments.
Assess the current on-premises environment and develop and implement the target-state OCI architecture.
Support migration of application, middleware, database, integration, identity-management, and content-management components to OCI.
Configure OCI compute, storage, networking, load balancing, DNS, identity and access management, security, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery.
Design, build, and support OKE clusters and containerized workloads, including networking, ingress, persistent storage, certificates, secrets, monitoring, and security.
Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, scripting, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
Collaborate with application development, PeopleSoft administration, database, middleware, network, cybersecurity, cloud, and operations teams.
Participate in architecture reviews, technical workshops, environment builds, migration testing, production cutovers, disaster recovery exercises, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and production support.
Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, technical designs, migration plans, build procedures, configuration documents, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge-transfer materials.
Support production implementations, cutovers, disaster recovery exercises, and critical incidents outside normal business hours when required.