Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring & Observability Engineer, OC2 Gov Cloud

ECS Federal•ARLINGTON, VA

1d•Remote

About The Position

ECS is seeking a proactive Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to support mission-critical DHS systems in Gov Cloud. This hands-on technical role designs, implements, and automates cloud-native observability, performance telemetry, and security posture monitoring. The engineer serves as the primary custodian of system visibility, monitoring production workloads and disaster recovery and replication health between Ashburn and Phoenix, and building a monitoring plane resilient to regional failures. The role also detects performance regressions across database and application stacks, automates infrastructure, and supports federal continuous monitoring and FedRAMP security requirements. The engineer builds and administers OCI monitoring services and distributed application performance monitoring; maintains independent cross-region monitoring planes; tracks disaster recovery readiness; monitors database fleets, security posture, host vulnerabilities, network perimeters, APIs, data protection, and key governance; and establishes actionable alerting and service-level objectives. The role includes Python and Terraform automation, Tier-3 incident response and root-cause analysis, operational runbook maintenance, continuous monitoring and audit reporting for DHS authorizations to operate, and integration of OCI telemetry with platforms such as Splunk and Dynatrace. The salary range is $140,000–$185,000. The posting lists a bachelor’s degree, at least six years of relevant professional experience, and U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain the required public trust suitability.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship with the 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 OCI 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 and I/O saturation, and forecast capacity growth.
Monitor compliance guardrails using Cloud Guard and Security Zones, and 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 have actionable operational context.
Write Python automation using the OCI SDK and Cloud Shell, and use Terraform and OCI Resource Manager to deploy monitoring configurations, dashboards, and 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 reports and audit log retention aligned with FedRAMP High and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 AU, SI, CA, and IR controls to support DHS authorizations to operate.
Ingest and correlate OCI telemetry into enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk and Dynatrace, and build unified executive and operational dashboards.