Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring & Observability Engineer, OC2 Gov Cloud

ECS Tech Inc•Work from home, Virginia

7h•$150,000 - $205,000•Remote

About The Position

ECS is seeking a proactive Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to work remotely and support high-consequence, mission-critical DHS systems. This hands-on technical role focuses on designing, implementing, and automating cloud-native observability, performance telemetry, and security posture monitoring across Gov Cloud environments. The engineer is the primary custodian of system visibility, responsible for end-to-end monitoring of production workloads, tracking disaster recovery and replication health between Ashburn and Phoenix, and building a resilient monitoring plane that can withstand regional failures. The role also involves detecting performance regressions across database and application stacks, automating infrastructure, and supporting continuous monitoring and FedRAMP security compliance.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain the required public trust suitability.
Bachelor’s degree.
A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

Build and administer the enterprise monitoring fabric using the Observability Management Platform, OCI Monitoring (MQL), Alarms, Notifications, Events, Logging, and Logging Analytics, confirming service parity in OC2.
Deploy the APM Service to trace distributed transactions, synthetic end-user journeys, and microservice latencies across containerized and cloud-native applications.
Architect and maintain redundant monitoring planes across Ashburn and Phoenix, ensuring alarms, telemetry streams, and dashboards operate independently during a regional outage.
Track replication lag across Oracle Data Guard, Object Storage cross-region replication, and Block Volume replicas, and automatically report standby readiness and failover test metrics.
Implement Database Management and Ops Insights across Exadata, Base DB Systems, and Autonomous Databases to detect SQL bottlenecks, assess CPU/I/O saturation, and forecast capacity growth.
Monitor compliance guardrails using Cloudguard and Security zones; track and audit access policies, dynamic groups, and identity domain federation via IAM.
Automate Linux and Windows kernel patching, CVE tracking, and package compliance with OS Management Hub; schedule host and image vulnerability assessments using Vulnerability Scanning.
Ingest telemetry and Layer 7 inspection logs from Network Firewall, correlate perimeter traffic with Threat Intelligence feeds, and monitor latency, rate limits, and throttling on API Management gateways.
Instrument Data Safe to monitor sensitive data discovery, database masking, and user risk scores; audit cryptographic lifecycle events and secret usage through Key Management.
Establish SLIs, SLOs, and multi-tier severity routing; lead bi-weekly alert noise reduction reviews and ensure each firing alert has actionable operational context.
Write Python automation using the OCI SDK and Cloud Shell, and use Terraform or OCI Resource Manager to deploy monitoring configurations and dashboards and create drift-detection inventory scripts as code.
Provide Tier-3 incident triage, metric and log correlation, and root cause analysis; author and maintain standardized operational runbooks for every page-worthy alert.
Maintain continuous monitoring reporting and audit log retention aligned with FedRAMP High and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls (AU, SI, CA, and IR families) to support ongoing DHS authorizations to operate.
Ingest and correlate OCI telemetry into enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk and Dynatrace, building unified executive and operational dashboards.