Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform Architect

Job Description We are seeking a Senior Cloud Architect with extensive experience in managing the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of security configurations, guardrails, policies, and the implementation of platform-wide services such as networking and monitoring. This role requires strong leadership capabilities and excellent communication skills to effectively discuss and agree on implementation designs with other cloud/security architects. Roles & Responsibilities – Platform Management & Optimization • Own and manage the overall OCI platform architecture, ensuring alignment with business and technology objectives. • Design and maintain OCI tenancy structures, compartments, resource hierarchies, and governance models. • Implement and manage shared platform services, including networking, identity management, monitoring, logging, and connectivity solutions. • Establish platform standards, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns for cloud deployments. • Drive platform automation through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and cloud-native tooling. • Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, and utilization, implementing improvements where required. • Optimize cloud resource consumption and costs through effective capacity planning and governance controls. • Ensure business continuity by implementing high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies. • Evaluate and incorporate new OCI services and capabilities to enhance platform efficiency, security, and scalability. • Develop operational procedures, runbooks, and best practices to support long-term platform stability and maintainability. • Manage the OCI platform. • Implement platform-wide services • Communicate and discuss implementation designs with other architects • Ensure the security and efficiency of the OCI platform • Implement and manage platform-wide services like networking and monitoring • Collaborate with other cloud/security architects to agree on implementation designs • Lead and guide the team towards achieving the project goals • Manage OCI tenancy, compartments, quotas, budgets, and resource lifecycle governance. • Design secure connectivity solutions including VCNs, VPNs, FastConnect, load balancers, and DNS services. • Implement centralized monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions across the OCI landscape. • Lead platform reviews and recommend enhancements to improve security posture, operational efficiency, and user experience. • Partner with application teams to ensure their solutions are aligned with OCI architectural standards and platform capabilities. • Support audits, compliance reviews, and security assessments by providing architecture documentation and technical guidance. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives for platform reliability, performance, automation, and cost optimization.