Principal Cloud Architect

Partners with customers, sales, engineering and product teams to design, demonstrate and deploy Oracle Cloud architectures that address customer business problems. Drives Oracle Cloud customer consumption by accelerating the adoption of Oracle cloud services including discovery, design and deployment.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- An IaaS Principal Cloud Architect is expected to possess strong infrastructure and consulting skills and contribute to the physical/logical infrastructure architecture design, review and implementation of Projects.
This job requires the ability to work in a flexible schedule up to midnight India time to overlap with the US Cloud Engineering team (starting at 2pm IST).

**Responsibilities**:

- Design/Develop & Implement Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) per end-user requirement/specs
- Automate common infrastructure tasks / customer requests by using Terraform, Ansible, Python or other cloud tooling.
- Develop reusable Intellectual Property (IP) for the Cloud Engineering Delivery organization to help drive delivery efficiency and customer value.
- Provide architectural oversight & support for new implementations, upgrades, and migrations on/to Oracle cloud infrastructure.
- Mentor junior IaaS resources to expand the team's capacity and establish consistency among delivery consultants
- Identify and quickly escalate potential issues with solution design, packaged software, client resources, or anything else that impacts your ability to deliver according to expectations.

**Accountabilities**:

- Be a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex Cloud Infrastructure and Networking challenges.
- Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders

**Required Knowledge & skills**:

- 10+ years of work experience in any combination of engineering, and consulting in cloud computing, with increasing responsibilities, and with a special focus on infrastructure design and automation from the networking layer up.
- Hands on skills with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or solutions from other providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure etc. would be required, especially with PaaS and IaaS.
- Ability to create, update, understand architecture diagrams based on end-user specs & implement the same.
- Experience in Linux & Windows administration.
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Python and other cloud provisioning tooling.
- In depth knowledge of various cloud & on-premise infrastructure components & networking.

- Good understanding of IaaS Compute and operating systems, and compute migration methodologies and implementation techniques.
- Team player with strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills
- Strong consulting skills to work in a professional manner with customer IT and business users
- Experience with source control systems such as Git
- Experience with implementations with Cloud Security (CASB, Oracle Data Safe, WAF) & code security (SonarQube etc).

**Desired Skills**:

- Experience in designing & implementing complex Hybrid Architectures that span across on-Prem, and Cloud (including multi-cloud)
- Experience in integrating Clouds with third-party tools such as Splunk, QRadar, Sumo Logic, Datadog, Grafana etc.
- Experience migrating workloads from on-premises into Cloud, or between Clouds.

- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (modules / models) & Ansible.
- Strong knowledge of networking that includes:

- Software Defined Networks in cloud environments.
- Understanding of VPN solutions, MPLS, and enterprise network equipment like routers, firewalls, and switches.
- Strong experience with configuring & maintaining the Linux and/or Windows Operating Systems.

- Working knowledge of Active Directory
- Networking and Virtualization expertise With Oracle VM, VMWare, KVM or Hyper-V
- Cloud Security solutioning and implementation.
- Background in Oracle on-premise technology products, especially in the area of Oracle Middleware (Weblogic,SOA, BPM), or database (RAC, Data Guard, Golden Gate)
- Analysis of cloud strategies, design and development of tools for Oracle products deployment in OCI.
- Proven ability in performing rapid assessments of clients’ internal technology landscape and targeting use cases and deployments for Oracle Cloud technology.
- OCI knowledge/ certification is preferred.
- Experience in Multi-cloud architectures, PaaS service connectivity is highly desirable.
- Experience with physical networking, understanding routing, firewalls etc is highly desirable.