OCI Architect

Centroid is Oracle Corporation's top Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) partner in North America, delivering architecture, implementation and modernization initiatives in OCI for our customers. Our architects work directly alongside Centroid’s and client teams to design, migrate, and modernize mission-critical workloads—Oracle Databases, EBS, People Soft, and next‑generation AI/Data, Agentic AI, OCI genAI Platform solutions on OCI.

This is a senior, hands‑on technical role. You will serve as the primary OCI architect on client engagements, owning solution design end‑to‑end, guiding technical decisions, and delivering production‑grade implementations. No people‑management responsibilities.

As an OCI Architect you will engage with various customers in their cloud enablement initiatives. The candidate will be involved in design and execution of cloud migration strategy, automating existing cloud workloads, and providing services to port existing workloads to leverage cloud benefits.

• 10+ years of experience in customer‑facing infrastructure or cloud architecture roles
• 5+ years of hands‑on OCI design and implementation experience

100% Remote.

Job Type: Full Time employee, CTH, or Contract.

• Architect end‑to‑end OCI solutions for customer engagements spanning landing zone design, network topology, identity, compute, storage, and database tiers
• Lead Oracle Database workload migrations to OCI, including Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database (ADB), and Base Database Service, with a focus on performance, HA, and DR
• Design and execute Oracle Applications migrations (EBS, People Soft, JD Edwards) to OCI, including lift‑and‑shift and modernization patterns
• Architect and deploy AI/Data Platform (AIDP) workloads leveraging OCI GenAI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, and Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search
• Develop and present technical architectures, reference designs, and migration runbooks for client pre‑sales and delivery engagements
• Build and maintain OCI landing zones using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, aligned to Oracle's CIS Foundations Benchmark
• Collaborate with Oracle technical teams (STCs, Cloud Engineers) on joint client engagements; serve as the technical point of escalation for Centroid
• Define standards, reusable patterns, and architectural guardrails for Centroid's OCI delivery practice

• Compute: VM/BM shapes, Flex shapes, instances, autoscaling, instance configurations
• Networking: VCN design, Fast Connect, Site‑to‑Site VPN, DRG v2, Network Firewall, load balancers (L4/L7), DNS, Private DNS Resolver
• Storage:
  Block Volume, File Storage (FSS), Object Storage (lifecycle, replication, versioning), Local NVMe
• IAM: compartment hierarchy, policies, dynamic groups, federated identity (SAML/SCIM), OCI Vault, Bastion Service
• Kubernetes: OKE cluster provisioning, node pool management, cluster networking (flannel/NPN), OCI Container Registry (OCIR)

• Autonomous Database (ADB‑S, ADB‑D), Base Database Service, Exadata Cloud Service, Exadata Cloud@Customer
• Data Guard (Maximum Availability, Maximum Performance), Golden Gate for live migration and zero‑downtime cutovers
• Oracle Database 23ai: JSON Relational Duality, True Cache, AI Vector Search, Select AI
• Database migration tools: MV2
  
  ADB, Data Pump, ZDLRA, Database Migration Service (DMS)

• EBS 12.1/12.2 on OCI: architecture patterns, shared file system design, wallet‑based DB connectivity or similar Oracle Application experience, like Peoplesoft or JDE.

• OCI Generative AI Service:
  Cohere and Meta model endpoints, embedding models, semantic search patterns
• OCI AI Agents: agent frameworks, tool configuration, RAG pipelines, knowledge base integration
• OCI Data Science: model deployment, Jupyter Lab environments, ML pipelines, Aqua (AI Quick Actions)
• Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search: VECTOR data type, HNSW/IVF indexes, vector distance functions

• Multi‑cloud connectivity: OCI–Azure Interconnect, OCI–AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@AWS
• Oracle Web Logic Server on OCI / Web Logic for OKE
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