Oracle cloud Infrastructure Engineer- OCI

Job Description: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Engineer -5-8 Years Experience

Key Responsibilities

OCI Infrastructure Design & Deployment

· Design, implement, and manage scalable OCI architectures including Compute, Storage, Networking, and Database services.

· Build and manage OCI Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs), subnets, gateways, route tables, DNS, and load balancers.

· Deploy and maintain OCI Compute instances, Autonomous Databases, Block Volumes, File Storage, and Object Storage.

Security & Compliance

· Implement IAM policies, dynamic groups, compartments, network security groups (NSGs), and security lists.

· Ensure platform compliance with security standards (ISO, SOC, NIST, CIS OCI benchmarks).

· Configure encryption, key management (OCI KMS), and audit/logging.

Automation & DevOps

· Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, or Ansible.

· Implement CI/CD pipelines using OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab.

· Monitor and optimize environment using OCI Monitoring, Logging, Alarms, and Observability tools.

Performance & Cost Optimization

· Monitor and optimize cloud resource utilization and cost.

· Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost forecasting.

· Recommend and implement autoscaling, right-sizing, and reserved capacity strategies.

Operations & Support

· Provide support for OCI issues, including incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

· Manage backup and recovery policies, Disaster Recovery (DR), and high availability (HA) configurations.

· Support database migrations and application deployments on OCI.

Collaboration & Documentation

· Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

· Participate in cloud strategy discussions and contribute to best practices and governance.

4-6 years of experience in cloud engineering, with at least 4+ years in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

· Strong hands-on experience with key OCI services:

o Compute, Storage, Networking, Load Balancers

o IAM, KMS, Secrets Management

o Oracle Base DB/Autonomous DB/MySQL DB Systems is a plus

o OCI Monitoring, Logging, Events & Alarms

· Knowledge in Terraform for IaC; experience with OCI Resource Manager preferred.

· Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems and shell scripting.

· Knowledge of cloud networking concepts (DNS, VPN, IPSec, Fast-Connect, Firewalls etc).

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