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.  Strong Cloud & on-prem Networking skills.

Minimum qualifications include: 8 years experience 

An IaaS Principal Cloud Architect, Networking is expected to possess strong Networking 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. 
 

Responsibilities:

• Design/Develop & Implement Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) per end-user requirement/specs.
• Automate common infrastructure tasks / customer requests by using Python, shell scripting 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.
• Effective collaboration with infrastructure teams, application development teams, testing and release teams
• 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 with any Hyperscaler, with increasing responsibilities, and with a special focus on Network design & implementation along with infrastructure design and automation.
• Hands on skills with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or solutions from other providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure etc. would be of required, especially with PaaS and IaaS.
• Ability to create, update, understand architecture diagrams based on end-user specs & implement the same.
• Experience with physical networking, understanding routing (expertise on BGP), firewalls, WAF, Network accelerators, CDN, Load balancers & SSL Certificates.
• Experience in deploying Firewalls, Load balancers and routers as a Virtual appliance in cloud infrastructure.
• In depth knowledge of various cloud & on-premise networking components including connectivity between clouds / on-prem to cloud.
• Good understanding of IaaS Compute and operating systems, and compute migration methodologies and implementation techniques.
• Hands-on working knowledge of Terraform / Ansible & Python
• Team player with strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills
• Strong consulting skills to work in a professional manner with customer IT and business users.

Desired Skills:

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• 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. for Log Analytics / flow logs and other services.
• Experience migrating workloads from on-premises into Cloud, or between Clouds.
• Strong knowledge of networking that includes:
  • Cloud Network Design & multi-cloud network design.
  • Implementation of VPN, and enterprise network equipment routers, firewalls, and switches.
  • Experience with physical networking, understanding routing (expertise on BGP), firewalls, WAF, Network accelerators, CDN, Load balancers & SSL Certificates.
  • Experience in deploying Firewalls, Load balancers and routers as a Virtual appliances in cloud infrastructure.
• 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 with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines / DevOps code-first methodology is highly desirable.
• Team player with strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills
• Strong consulting skills to work in a professional manner with customer IT and business users.
  
   

Career Level - IC4