Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring & Observability Engineer, OC2 Gov Cloud

ECS Tech Inc•Arlington, VA

1d•$140,000 - $185,000•Remote

About The Position

ECS is seeking a proactive, hands-on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to work remotely supporting mission-critical DHS systems in Gov Cloud. The engineer will design, implement, and automate cloud-native observability, performance telemetry, and security posture monitoring across Gov Cloud environments. The role is responsible for end-to-end production workload visibility, disaster recovery and replication health between Ashburn and Phoenix, and a resilient monitoring plane designed to remain operational during regional failures. It also focuses on detecting performance regressions across database and application stacks, infrastructure-as-code automation, and compliance with federal continuous monitoring and FedRAMP security standards.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain the required public trust suitability.
Bachelor’s degree.
At least 6 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 if either region is unavailable.
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 and 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 through 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 firing alerts provide actionable operational context.
Write Python automation using the OCI SDK and Cloud Shell, and use Terraform and 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.