OCI Cloud Architect 15+ Years

Job Title: OCI Cloud Architect

Location: Chennai

Experience: 15+ Years

Support time: UK Time Zone

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced OCI Cloud Architect to manage and support Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments across Development, UAT, and Production, including Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) application environments. The role requires strong expertise in cloud security, application hosting, patching, upgrades, CI/CD pipelines, and the design of highly available and disaster-resilient architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and day-to-day operation of the OCI compartments across production, DR and non-production tiers (DEV, TST, UAT, QA, SIT).
• Maintain secure, scalable, highly available designs across regions, including VCN design, DRG/FastConnect connectivity, load balancing and public/private access separation.
• Manage Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) application environments on OCI.
• Implement and manage OCI security including IAM, policies, compartments, and access controls.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security and governance standards.
• Host, Migration, operate, and support enterprise applications on OCI, including Oracle EBS.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automation for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for OCI provisioning and configuration.
• Design and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for OCI and EBS.
• Run vulnerability management and enforce security and governance standards — IAM policies, compartments, identity services, auditing and logging — within the customer's retained identity and security governance model.
• Design and maintain HA and DR, including Data Guard, remote peering and application failover; run DR tests and evidence RTO/RPO attainment.
• Perform DR testing, failover exercises, and ensure RTO/RPO objectives are met.
• Apply shift-left automation to reduce repeat incidents, and support FinOps review of compute, load balancer and storage consumption.
• Operate within the customer's change management (CAB), incident and problem management processes, respecting tenant ownership and break-glass controls retained by the customer.
• Experience operating in an ITIL-aligned managed service with SLA/XLA reporting and multi-vendor governance.
• Excellent troubleshooting and stakeholder communication; comfortable working within a shift roster.
• OCI Architect Professional and/or Oracle EBS certifications preferred.
• Monitor performance, availability, capacity, and cost across OCI and EBS environments.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, database, and application issues across all environments.
• Monitor performance, availability, capacity and cost; troubleshoot across infrastructure, database and platform layers.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, SOPs and runbooks; participate in service governance and reporting against SLA/XLA measures.
• Collaborate with application, database, DevOps, and security teams.
  
  

Key Skills & Qualifications

• Deep hands-on OCI experience — networking, security, governance, compartment and tenancy design, multi-region architecture.
• Proven experience running Oracle EBS environments at the infrastructure, OS and database layers, in a shared-responsibility model alongside an application partner.
• Oracle Database 19c on Exadata (Exadata VM clusters / DB Systems), Data Guard, backup and recovery.
• Terraform and CI/CD pipeline delivery; automation-first operating mindset.
• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Proven experience managing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) hosted environments.
• Experience supporting Dev, UAT, and Production environments.
• Strong understanding of OCI networking, Security, and governance.
• Expertise in Oracle EBS administration, patching, cloning, Migration and upgrades.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery architectures.
• Experience with Oracle Databases (Autonomous, DB Systems, Exadata preferred).
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash, Python).
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• OCI Architect and/or Oracle EBS certifications (preferred).
  
  

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