About the Role
The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day build, configuration, operation, and support of cloud infrastructure services, with a primary focus on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role applies approved architecture patterns, automation, and operational standards to deliver secure, available, and cost-efficient cloud environments. The engineer works with limited supervision on routine to moderately complex tasks, supports senior engineers on larger initiatives, and contributes to migration, modernization, and continuous-improvement activities. A working knowledge of at least one secondary public cloud (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and adjacent tooling such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines is expected.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provision and configure OCI resources (Compute, Block/Object/FSS Storage, VCN, Load Balancer, DBCS, ADB) following approved designs and landing-zone patterns.
- Configure networking (VCN, subnets, route tables, security lists/NSGs, gateways, FastConnect/IPSec VPN, DNS) and apply standard tagging, naming, and cost-allocation conventions.
- Support deployments and releases across environments using CI/CD pipelines (OCI DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
- Author and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Terraform / OCI Resource Manager) and automation scripts (Ansible, Bash, Python) for recurring tasks – patching, certificate rotation, snapshots, environment refresh.
- Monitor platform health and respond to alerts and incidents within SLAs using OCI Monitoring, OCI Logging, APM, and enterprise tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace).
- Execute routine operations – patching, backups, capacity checks, certificate renewals, and drift remediation; participate in on-call and change windows.
- Apply security controls (IAM policies, MFA, OCI Vault/KMS, encryption, segmentation, Bastion) and validate guardrails using Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vulnerability Scanning, and Data Safe.
- Execute access management (user lifecycle, role assignment, service accounts, periodic reviews) and support audit/compliance evidence gathering.
- Assist with workload migration (lift-and-shift, re-platform) to OCI, environment setup, and hypercare; support application teams deploying onto OCI (Oracle DB, WebLogic, OKE, Functions, API Gateway).
- Contribute to cost optimization (right-sizing, scheduling, unused-resource cleanup) and maintain runbooks, configuration records, and operational documentation.
Qualifications, Experience & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 – 6 years of hands-on cloud/platform engineering experience; minimum of 2 years on OCI (or strong equivalent cloud depth with demonstrable OCI exposure); production operations and change-management experience.
- Required (at least one OCI Associate certification): OCI Foundations Associate (1Z0-1085) plus OCI Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) or OCI Operations Associate (1Z0-1067).
- Preferred: OCI Architect Professional (1Z0-997); a second-cloud certification (AWS SAA, Azure AZ-104, GCP ACE); HashiCorp Terraform Associate; CKA; Linux certification (RHCSA / Oracle Linux).
Competencies & Performance Measures
Behavioral & Professional Competencies
- Ownership and accountability – sees assigned work through to completion.
- Problem solving – systematic diagnosis across infra, network, and app layers.
- Clear written and verbal communication with peers and stakeholders.
- Collaboration with architecture, security, app, and vendor teams.
- Service mindset and respect for operational SLAs.
- Continuous learning across cloud, automation, and security.
- Discipline – adherence to standards, documentation, and change control.
Performance Measures
- Platform availability against SLOs on assigned services.
- Quality and timeliness of provisioning, deployment, and ops work.
- Incident response effectiveness – MTTA / MTTR and RCA quality.
- Adherence to security, compliance, and change-management standards.
- Contribution to automation, cost optimization, and knowledge management.
- Demonstrable skill growth in OCI and secondary cloud/tooling areas.
- Working relationships – internal (CPE peers, Architects, Security, Networking, DBA, App teams) and external (Oracle Support, partners, vendors).
