OCI Architect

Location:

United States

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 OCI Architect you will be engaging 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 in cloud, provide 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

• Location:
  
  100% Remote
• Job Type: Full Time employee, CTH, or Contract

• 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
• ZFS Storage Appliance on OCI, Oracle Linux, RHEL administration at scale
• Observability: OCI Monitoring, Logging, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), OCI Ops Insights
• Fin Ops: cost analysis, committed use discounts, OCI resource scheduling

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) - required within 90 days if not already held
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (1Z0-997) - strongly preferred
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Professional (1Z0-1127) - preferred
• Oracle Exadata Database Machine Implementation Specialist - preferred for Exadata-focused engagements
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Lift projects

• Bachelor’s…