Senior Platform Engineer; OCI

Position: Senior Platform Engineer (OCI)
Overview

Join Navy Federal's OCI Platform Engineering team and help modernize, secure, and scale our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment through cloud-first engineering, automation, and platform standardization. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who brings deep OCI expertise, strong infrastructure-as-code skills, and a platform mindset. The selected candidate will design, implement, support, and continuously improve core OCI services and shared platform capabilities that enable secure, resilient, and efficient delivery across enterprise workloads.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, implement, and maintain Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) IaaS and PaaS services, including compute, storage, networking, load balancers, and database platform capabilities.
• Own and support core OCI platform services, including tenancy structure, compartments, networking patterns, access models, and shared operational standards.
• Design and deploy scalable, secure, and supportable OCI solutions using cloud engineering best practices and reusable patterns.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration management, patching, backup activities, and operational workflows.
• Administer and support Oracle platform services.
• Configure and manage OCI networking components, including VCNs, subnets, route tables, security lists, network security groups, and connectivity patterns.
• Implement and support observability capabilities using monitoring, logging, alerting, and event-driven automation to improve service reliability and operational visibility.
• Partner with IAM, database, application, and security teams to define and implement secure, supportable, and well-governed platform solutions.
• Respond to operational incidents, complex technical issues, and service disruptions; lead or support problem management efforts and provide clear status to stakeholders and leadership.
• Support vulnerability remediation, secure configuration management, and control implementation across the OCI environment.
• Participate in security incident response activities and support remediation efforts for cloud platform services.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation for architecture, standards, procedures, support models, and operational runbooks.
• Provide day-to-day operational support and participate in an after-hours on-call rotation to support business-critical services.
• Support release activities, platform upgrades, maintenance planning, validation testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor compliance with enterprise information security policies, procedures, and audit requirements; support remediation of identified control gaps and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
• Advanced experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in a hands-on engineering or platform role.
• Strong knowledge of OCI core services, including compute, storage, networking, security and identity, and database-related services.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and repeatable cloud provisioning practices.
• Hands-on experience with Dev Ops automation, including CI/CD pipelines and scripting using tools such as Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, APIs, Python, Power Shell, and Git Hub.
• Working knowledge of OCI PaaS services, preferably Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Analytics Cloud, Fusion applications and other Oracle platform offerings.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Autonomous Database services such as ATP and ADW.
• Experience supporting patching, backup, recovery, and operational maintenance functions in a cloud environment.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational observability practices in cloud platforms.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, platform services, networking, and integrations.
• Effective organizational, planning, communication, and time management skills.
• 5+ years of experience working in a senior technical, engineering, or cloud platform role.

Desired Qualifications

• Oracle Cloud certifications are preferred.
• Experience with OCI governance concepts such as compartments, tagging, policy design, and platform standardization.
• Experience with secrets management and secure credential handling solutions, such as OCI Vault, Cyber Ark, or similar tools.
• Experience supporting hybrid or multi-cloud environments is a plus.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated environments preferred.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, security, IAM, database, and application support teams.

What Success Looks Like:

• Improves platform reliability, security, and operational maturity through automation and standardization.
• Reduces manual effort by implementing reusable infrastructure patterns and efficient…