Associate Architect - Oracle PaaS Administrator

Company

enGen

CANDIDATE MUST BE US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) Administrator to join our dynamic team. This pivotal role involves leading the definition and design of complex Oracle Financial PaaS processes and functions, facilitating the development of sophisticated enterprise business solutions, and contributing to strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the robust, secure, and efficient operation of our Oracle PaaS environment, balancing functional requirements with service quality and adherence to enterprise policies and security standards.

This role also involves providing leadership and mentorship in areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management, and business users.

• Lead the design and definition of complex Oracle Financial PaaS processes and functions.
• Facilitate the development of advanced enterprise business solutions utilizing Oracle PaaS.
• Contribute to enterprise strategy development, including opportunity identification and business innovation.
• Select and ensure the effective application of appropriate design standards, methods, and tools.
• Review application designs to ensure optimal technology selection, efficient resource utilization, and seamless system integration.
• Ensure system architecture adheres to functional, service quality, security, and enterprise policy standards.
• Participate in customer walkthroughs, technical reviews, problem resolution, and decision-making processes.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to peers, developers, management, and business users on Oracle PaaS architecture and best practices.
• Manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resources, including provisioning and maintaining compute, storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), and networking components (VCNs, subnets, NSGs, security lists).
• Administer and configure Oracle PaaS services such as Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud, and Oracle FDI, ensuring secure and efficient operation.
• Implement and manage Identity and Access Management (IAM) through IDCS or OCI IAM, including role setup, policies, single sign-on (SSO), and application/user provisioning.
• Conduct proactive monitoring, performance tuning, and cost optimization of Oracle PaaS environments.
• Implement and enforce security best practices, including encryption, patch management, vulnerability scanning, backup/recovery, access audits, Cloud Guard, and Data Safe, ensuring SOX compliance.
• Provide frontline support for incident management, diagnosing and resolving platform issues, coordinating with IT teams and vendors, and documenting operational processes.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts (Shell, Python) for streamlining tasks, ensuring peer review and version control.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, oversee licensing, manage change control, and develop recovery plans.
• Collaborate effectively with developers, analysts, and security teams, and potentially mentor junior staff.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Expertise: Compute, Storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), Networking (VCNs, subnets, NSGs).
• Oracle PaaS Services: Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), APEX, Web Logic.
• Database Administration: Oracle Database administration and data transformation experience.
• Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Shell/Bash scripting and Python. Java experience is a plus.
• Security & Compliance: IAM/Policy configuration, encryption, patching strategies, SOX compliance, and audit experience.
• APIs & Integrations: Experience with REST APIs and FDI SOAP.
• Performance Optimization: Proven ability in performance tuning, health checks, and cost tracking.
• Operational Excellence: Strong skills in incident triaging, technical documentation, backup strategies, and disaster recovery.

• Assists in providing strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing less complex business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitates development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participates in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Assists in specifying and designing less complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied…