Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Engineer

A-TEK•Silver Spring, MD

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

A-TEK is seeking an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Engineer to support our federal client based in Silver Spring, MD location. The OCI Engineer will implement and operate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services supporting client applications and databases. Work alongside existing engineers to expand delivery capacity, automate infrastructure, and troubleshoot production issues. Coordinate infrastructure changes with database administrators, application teams, security staff, and other service providers.

Requirements

4+ years of systems or infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 2 years of hands-on cloud deployment and operations experience.
Practical OCI experience provisioning and supporting production infrastructure, including computing, networking, and load balancing.
Hands-on Terraform experience and working knowledge of Linux administration, network troubleshooting, and Bash or Python scripting.
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or a government-approved qualifying substitution.
Clear technical communication and the ability to work through shared responsibilities, access approvals, and production change controls.
Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust suitability determination and comply with federal identity, security, and training requirements.
U.S. citizenship or qualifying lawful U.S. status is required, subject to customer access approval.
Participate in authorized emergency support and coordinate work through established change and access processes.

Nice To Haves

OCI architecture or operations certification; experience with multi-tenant environments, IAM policies, and infrastructure governance.
General Oracle database knowledge and experience supporting database-hosting infrastructure.
CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and GCP-to-OCI connectivity experience.
Federal cloud operations experience and CompTIA Security+ or another relevant security certification.

Responsibilities

Provision, configure, and maintain OCI compute, storage, and related infrastructure; support instance cloning and environment deployment.
Develop and maintain Terraform configurations and reusable infrastructure automation with controlled changes and documented deployment procedures.
Configure and troubleshoot virtual cloud networks, subnets, routing, security rules, and load balancers within the assigned scope.
Support connectivity among application, database, and cloud environments; coordinate cross-cloud issues with GCP engineers and network owners.
Monitor availability, performance, and capacity; resolve incidents and support backup, recovery, patching, and resilience activities.
Apply access controls and security requirements; document infrastructure, dependencies, changes, and operational runbooks.