Strategic OCI Architect

Strategic OCI Architect - VDart, Inc.

VDart, Inc. is seeking a Strategic OCI Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in New York City. This is an onsite, 5-day/week contract role focused on architecting secure landing zones, managing multi-region networking, and driving infrastructure modernization. You will be responsible for OCI tenancy governance, automating deployments via Terraform, and ensuring high availability across compute, storage, and Autonomous Database environments using the OCI Well-Architected Framework.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design: Own the end-to-end OCI architecture, including tenancy structures, compartment hierarchies, and IAM policy design.
• Network Engineering: Architect VCNs, Dynamic Routing Gateways (DRG), FastConnect, and Site-to-Site VPNs for secure hybrid-cloud connectivity.
• Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain production-ready Terraform scripts and CI/CD pipelines to automate environment provisioning.
• Modernization: Lead migration strategies (Lift & Shift, Re-platform, Refactor) for legacy workloads into OCI, specifically leveraging OKE (Kubernetes) and Autonomous Database.
• Governance & Security: Conduct Well-Architected reviews and security assessments to ensure 100% compliance with identity and data sovereignty standards.
• Cost & Performance: Execute cost-optimization analyses to reduce spend and engineer multi-region DR strategies to meet RTO/RPO targets.
• Team Leadership: Provide technical direction to offshore delivery teams and present architectural roadmaps to executive stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Experience: 5+ years of Cloud Architecture experience with at least 3 years of hands-on OCI implementation.
• Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in OCI Core Services: Compute, Block/Object Storage, VCN, Load Balancing, and IAM.
• Automation: Advanced proficiency in Terraform and OCI Resource Manager.
• Containers: Practical experience deploying and managing OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE).
• Database: Strong knowledge of Oracle Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud Service, and DBCS.
• Security: Proficiency with OCI Vault/KMS, Security Zones, Cloud Guard, and WAF.
• Availability: Ability to work onsite 5 days a week in New York City.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification: OCI Solutions Architect Professional certification.
• Scripting: Proficiency in Python or Bash for cloud automation.
• Compliance: Experience with CIS OCI Foundations Benchmark and SOC2/HIPAA cloud compliance.
• Scale: Previous experience managing OCI environments for large-scale financial or enterprise institutions.

Key skills/competency

• Strategic OCI Architect
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Cloud Architecture
• Terraform
• OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE)
• Oracle Autonomous Database
• Network Engineering
• Infrastructure as Code
• Cloud Security
• Cloud Governance