OCI Cloud Administrator

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Seeking an OCI Cloud Administrator in support of program capability to provide operational input and support for the operations, maintenance, and refinement of Enterprise Cloud environment, execution support for migrating new and legacy applications and services to cloud computing and continuous improvement of IT infrastructure. The candidate will support our clients in their cloud operations to enhance, optimize, and maintain their computing capabilities across their technical landscape.

This includes working with our system admins when supporting application teams, working with project teams to operate & maintain (O&M) client applications on their cloud platform. The Cloud Administrator will be focused on and must have expertise with, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) components, resources, services, and tools.

Responsibilities include:

• Utilize Enterprise Cloud Operational Tools, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) native portal, and/or other approved tools necessary to support workloads in the VA’s enterprise cloud tools listed at the bottom).
• Assist with compliance, logging, and monitoring solutions for OCI workloads.
• Assist with reporting on current OCI status.
• Documentation of production operations processes via production operation manuals (POMs). Support OCI cloud‑based continuous improvement, deployment, and migration efforts as needed
• Utilize automation tools such as Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform or similar as needed in support of OCI workloads. Service Now.
  
  - Logging/ Observability:
  Dynatrace, Solar Winds, Splunk.
  
  - Migration:
  Cloud Key, Jira.
  
  - Reporting:
  Apptio, Cloudability.

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or technical discipline (10 years additional work experience might be considered in lieu of a degree).
• Three (3) to six (6) years setting up, configuring and using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines.
• Experience in systems administration within Linux (Red Hat) or Windows environments.
• Experience in one or more of the VAECOT suite of tools, shown below:
  
  - OCI Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Operational Tools/Services.
  
  - Oracle Cloud Security:
  Access Governance, Autonomous Linux, Bastian, Certificates, Cloud Guard, Hardware Root of Trust, Identity and Access Management, Isolated Network Virtualization, Key Management, Network Firewall, Security Zones, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Scanning.
  
  - Oracle Cloud Monitoring and Logging:
  Connector Hub, Database Management, Fleet Application Management, Full Stack Disaster Recovery, Logging, Log Analytics, Monitoring, Stack Monitoring, Notifications, Ops Insights, OS Management Hub, Resource Manager.
  
  - Oracle Cloud Networking: DNS Management, Fast Connect, Load Balancers, Networking Gateways, Private Endpoint, Site-to-Site VPN, Virtual Cloud Networks.
  
  - Oracle Storage:
  Archive Storage, Block Volumes, File Storage, Object Storage, Storage Gateway.
• Some experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP tool equivalents to OCI Cloud Service Provider (CSP).
• Operational Tools/Services desired:
  
  - Cloud Security:
  Armis, Big Fix, Cloud Strike, Centrify, Net Skope, Tenable Nessus.
  
  - Cloud Governance:
  Turbot.
  
  - Containerization:
  Red Hat Open Shift.
  
  - Dev Ops/Configuration Management/Help Desk:
  Ansible,…