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About The Position

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly clearance.
• Five or more years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, architecture, or technical delivery.
• The qualifications section separately lists a minimum of eight years of experience with computer applications and tools.
• Hands-on experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience designing, implementing, or assessing enterprise cloud foundations.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, compute, storage, and observability.
• Experience assessing customer environments, workload dependencies, and migration requirements.
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and environment-specific configurations.
• Experience using Python to develop scripts that configure cloud resources, integrate APIs, validate deployments, and automate operational tasks.
• Experience managing infrastructure code in Git-based repositories, including branching, pull requests, peer review, and version control.
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure deployments and automation, including configuration errors, resource dependencies, permissions, and failed provisioning.
• Ability to translate requirements into architecture designs, implementation guidance, and readiness recommendations.
• Strong customer discovery, technical facilitation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of federal cloud security and compliance requirements and their implications for architecture and operational readiness.
• Ability to manage assigned technical work, communicate risks, and coordinate across customer and delivery teams.
• Ability to travel 50% internationally and domestically.
• Candidates must be based in the greater Washington, DC area for this hybrid position.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting U.S. Federal Government customers.
• OCI expertise across tenancy design, landing zones, networking, identity federation, and security operations integration.
• Experience with OCI Resource Manager, OCI CLI, and OCI SDKs.
• Experience integrating infrastructure deployments with CI/CD pipelines and automated validation.
• Familiarity with Shell scripting, Ansible, or other configuration management and automation tools.
• Experience with Oracle applications, databases, middleware, or VMware environments.
• Familiarity with FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN, enterprise identity providers, and SIEM/SOC integration.
• Knowledge of cloud governance, cost accountability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Relevant cloud architecture, networking, security, or automation certifications.
• Bachelor of Science-level university degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering from an accredited university, and/or relevant eight years of technical experience.
• Advanced degree in a relevant field of study.
• Expertise and in-depth knowledge of competitive and industry knowledge in computer applications and tools; system and application design; implementation of advanced product features; project management; solving technical problems with customers in technical environments; written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; needs analysis, positioning, and business justification.
• Eight years of experience and expertise in clearly communicating technical information through presentations, demonstrations, written communication, and consultative solutioning.

Responsibilities

• Engage customer stakeholders to understand mission objectives, business drivers, technical environments, and adoption priorities.
• Lead discovery across applications, databases, infrastructure, networking, identity, security, operations, governance, and automation.
• Assess workload dependencies, migration suitability, technical constraints, and foundational requirements.
• Develop evidence-based readiness assessments identifying gaps, risks, recommendations, accountable owners, and target dates.
• Recommend adoption sequencing and migration-readiness actions based on technical dependencies and customer priorities.
• Translate customer requirements into secure, resilient, implementation-ready OCI foundation architectures.
• Design tenancy and compartment structures, landing zones, environment separation, naming, tagging, governance, and cost controls.
• Develop network designs covering VCNs, subnets, routing, DNS, segmentation, and hybrid connectivity.
• Guide identity federation, access policies, least privilege, multifactor authentication, and emergency access arrangements.
• Define logging, monitoring, security telemetry, alert routing, and integration with customer security operations.
• Document architecture decisions, alternatives, tradeoffs, dependencies, and exceptions.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain OCI foundation components using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager.
• Create reusable Terraform modules and manage state, resource dependencies, and environment-specific configurations.
• Develop Python scripts to integrate APIs, configure cloud resources, validate deployments, and automate repeatable tasks.
• Manage infrastructure and automation code in Git-based repositories using branching, pull requests, and peer review.
• Apply secure practices for credentials, secrets, access permissions, and deployment execution.
• Troubleshoot provisioning failures, configuration errors, permissions, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Document deployment procedures and enable customer and delivery teams to maintain and extend automation.
• Translate architecture designs into actionable implementation tasks with sequencing, ownership, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct technical working sessions, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises to help teams implement agreed designs.
• Collaborate with professional services, delivery partners, and customer engineers to resolve foundational implementation blockers.
• Guide deployment practices that support consistency, repeatability, and operational sustainability.
• Review deployed foundations against agreed architecture and operational readiness criteria.
• Validate connectivity, identity, security controls, logging, monitoring, and automation through documented evidence.
• Track unresolved gaps and exceptions, ensuring risks are addressed or formally accepted by accountable owners.
• Prepare operational handoff packages covering architecture, infrastructure code, deployment procedures, runbooks, support paths, and outstanding actions.
• Transfer knowledge to receiving teams and confirm their acceptance of operational ownership.
• Use and improve shared discovery workbooks, readiness assessments, design templates, architecture decision records, and handoff checklists.
• Apply Oracle documentation, reference architectures, training, and labs to customer needs.
• Contribute reusable infrastructure modules, automation scripts, engineering patterns, and lessons learned.
• Maintain broad capability across cloud adoption foundations while developing deeper expertise in networking, identity, security operations, or Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Communicate progress, risks, recommendations, and decisions clearly to customer and Oracle stakeholders.
• Manage assigned technical work, communicate risks, and coordinate across customer and delivery teams.
• Travel up to 50% domestically and internationally, as stated in the qualifications.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits, including flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options.
• Volunteer programs encouraging employees to give back to their communities.