Senior Azure Oracle Cloud Platform Engineer

AVER•Washington, PA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

AVER is seeking a Senior Azure Oracle Cloud Platform Engineer to manage and operate a third-party DBaaS control plane deployed within Azure environment in support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This role is heavily focused on Azure cloud infrastructure, AKS/Kubernetes, Linux OS operations, and SRE-style troubleshooting, with responsibility spanning both control plane and data plane. The candidate should also possess foundational Oracle database skills to support platform-level operations and troubleshooting of databases in a secure, regulated federal environment. Join a collaborative team who values AVER’s mission, focus, and culture of delivering exceptional client service with great people and transformative technology solutions that ensure Government mission success.

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure expertise, particularly AKS, networking, storage accounts, IAM, and monitoring
Expertise with Oracle database management and administration to understanding of Oracle architecture and processes, perform startup/shutdown, health checks, and basic troubleshooting
Must have knowledge of backups, HA/DR concepts, and patching workflows
Solid Kubernetes experience (AKS preferred): cluster operations, upgrades, logging, and troubleshooting
Expert Linux OS skills (RHEL / Oracle Linux): system administration, patching, hardening, and performance analysis
Experience performing OS patching and maintenance for production database VMs
SRE-oriented troubleshooting skills, with the ability to analyze issues across multiple layers of the stack
Strong understanding of Azure identity and access management, including Managed Identities, RBAC, and service principals
Experience with network security design in Azure, including private endpoints, service endpoints, firewall rules, and network segmentation
Working knowledge of container security, image scanning, and Kubernetes RBAC
Experience troubleshooting storage performance issues (Azure Disk, Files, Blob, and CSI drivers)
Familiarity with Oracle backup and recovery tooling (RMAN or equivalent)
Experience supporting systems subject to FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST 800-53 controls
Ability to support audit activities, evidence collection, and security assessments
Familiarity with security hardening standards
Experience working with security teams on vulnerability remediation and POA&M tracking
Understanding of encryption at rest and in transit, key management, and certificate handling in Azure
Strong documentation and customer-facing communication skills
Bachelor’s degree or at least 4+ years of hands on relevant experience in lieu of a degree
Ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance (Public Trust)
This role supports a government agency which requires U.S. citizenship

Nice To Haves

Experience operating hosted control planes or BDaaS platforms in customer-managed Azure environments
Experience with Oracle Exadata, RAC, or Data Guard (operational exposure)
Prior experience supporting DHS or other civilian federal agencies
Exposure to Zero Trust Architecture concepts in cloud environments
Experience mentoring junior engineers or serving as a technical lead
Relevant desired certifications-- Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Oracle Cloud or Oracle DBA certifications
Exposure to DBaaS platforms and multi-tenant cloud architectures

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day operations of a third-party DBaaS product control plane deployed in Azure GovCloud
Manage and troubleshoot Azure AKS clusters, including cluster health, upgrades, networking, and storage integrations
Operate Azure components such as VNets, subnets, storage accounts, managed identities, NSGs, load balancers, and monitoring services
Provide hands-on Kubernetes administration: pod/service troubleshooting, configuration management, scaling, and observability
Perform Linux OS administration across control plane and database VMs, including security hardening, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
Execute and manage OS patching for database VMs, aligned with maintenance windows and federal change management processes
Act as an SRE-style escalation point, debugging issues end-to-end across control plane, platform services, and data plane
Support basic Oracle database operations required for platform health and issue resolution
Partner with DHS security and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance, audit readiness, and secure operations
Lead root-cause analysis, produce customer-ready postmortems, and drive reliability improvements