Senior Solutions Architect, Container Services

Oracle • Nashville, TN

9d • $87,800 - $209,500

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to help customers adopt and scale applications using Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Container Instances, and Functions. This hands-on, customer-facing individual contributor role works directly with developers, platform engineers, and technology leaders to understand requirements, recommend architectures, and turn technical challenges into working solutions.

The role involves designing and building prototypes, troubleshooting complex integrations, guiding migrations, and helping customers move from evaluation to production. Working with product management, engineering, and field teams, the architect develops practical solutions to adoption barriers and turns successful implementations into reusable architectures, automation, demonstrations, and technical guidance.

The position includes customer discovery and architecture recommendations; hands-on solution development; migration and modernization guidance; deployment automation and reusable assets; production-readiness guidance; technical problem-solving and adoption support; product and engineering partnership; and technical enablement and advocacy. The U.S. hiring range is $87,800 to $209,500 per annum, with possible bonus and equity eligibility. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in solutions architecture, cloud engineering, platform engineering, software development, or related technical roles.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating production Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, storage, identity, and application security.
• Experience with OCI or comparable public-cloud platforms, including managed Kubernetes, container runtimes, registries, and serverless applications.
• Experience with developer toolchains, Terraform, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment tools such as Helm or GitOps.
• Ability to write, test, and debug application and automation code using Python, Go, Java, shell scripting, or comparable languages.
• Strong customer discovery, troubleshooting, and communication skills, including the ability to explain architectural tradeoffs to technical teams and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated success coordinating across product, engineering, and customer teams, navigating ambiguity, and translating technical work into measurable customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer workloads, business objectives, operational capabilities, and technical constraints; recommend container and serverless deployment patterns and explain tradeoffs in scalability, security, reliability, cost, and operational ownership.
• Build proofs of concept, sample applications, demonstrations, and practical integrations across OKE, Container Instances, and Functions, connecting them with registries, networking, IAM, storage, API Gateway, and other OCI services as needed.
• Assess existing container platforms and application dependencies; help customers plan migrations, validate compatibility, address architectural gaps, and establish a path from evaluation to production.
• Create reference architectures, Terraform configurations, deployment examples, and technical guides; integrate infrastructure provisioning and application delivery with customer CI/CD workflows.
• Guide customers on capacity planning, scaling, availability, upgrades, observability, security, backup, and recovery; validate assumptions and clarify service responsibilities and operational procedures.
• Diagnose deployment, networking, identity, storage, and application integration issues; develop and validate workarounds where appropriate, coordinate with engineering and support, and help customers resolve adoption barriers.
• Translate customer experience into reproducible technical findings, clear requirements, and business impact; contribute to architecture and API reviews, validate proposed capabilities, and help product teams prioritize improvements.
• Develop workshops, hands-on labs, presentations, technical articles, and demonstrations for customers, partners, and field teams; turn engagement lessons into broader adoption programs and measure their impact.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal benefits
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
• Potential bonus and equity eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed