Description

Centroid is top Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) partner in North America, delivering architecture, implementation and modernization initiatives in OCI for our customers.

Our architects work directly alongside Centroid's and client teams to design, migrate, and modernize mission-critical workloads- Oracle Databases, EBS, PeopleSoft, and next-generation AI/Data, Agentic AI, OCI genAI Platform solutions on OCI.

This is a senior, hands-on technical role. You will serve as the primary OCI architect on client engagements: owning solution design end-to-end, guiding technical decisions, and delivering production-grade implementations. No people management responsibilities.

As OCI Architect you will be engaging with various customers in their cloud enablement initiatives. The candidate will be involved in design and execution of cloud migration strategy, automating existing cloud workloads in cloud, provide services to port existing workloads to leverage cloud benefits.

Requirements:

10+ years of experience in customer-facing infrastructure or cloud architecture roles
5+ years of hands-on OCI design and implementation experience

Location: 100% Remote

Architect end-to-end OCI solutions for customer engagements spanning landing zone design, network topology, identity, compute, storage, and database tiers
Lead Oracle Database workload migrations to OCI, including Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database (ADB), and Base Database Service, with a focus on performance, HA, and DR
Design and execute Oracle Applications migrations (EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) to OCI, including lift-and-shift and modernization patterns
Architect and deploy AI/Data Platform (AIDP) workloads leveraging OCI GenAI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, and Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search
Develop and present technical architectures, reference designs, and migration runbooks for client pre-sales and delivery engagements
Build and maintain OCI landing zones using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, aligned to Oracle's CIS Foundations Benchmark
Collaborate with Oracle technical teams (STCs, Cloud Engineers) on joint client engagements; serve as the technical point of escalation for Centroid
Define standards, reusable patterns, and architectural guardrails for Centroid's OCI delivery practice

Skills Preferred:

OCI Core Services

Compute: VM/BM shapes, Flex shapes, instances, autoscaling, instance configurations
Networking: VCN design, FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN, DRG v2, Network Firewall, load balancers (L4/L7), DNS, Private DNS Resolver
Storage: Block Volume, File Storage (FSS), Object Storage (lifecycle, replication, versioning), Local NVMe
IAM: compartment hierarchy, policies, dynamic groups, federated identity (SAML/SCIM), OCI Vault, Bastion Service
Kubernetes: OKE cluster provisioning, node pool management, cluster networking (flannel/NPN), OCI Container Registry (OCIR)

Oracle Database & Exadata

Autonomous Database (ADB-S, ADB-D), Base Database Service, Exadata Cloud Service, Exadata Cloud@Customer
Data Guard (Maximum Availability, Maximum Performance), GoldenGate for live migration and zero-downtime cutovers
Oracle Database 23ai: JSON Relational Duality, True Cache, AI Vector Search, Select AI
Database migration tools: MV2ADB, Data Pump, ZDLRA, Database Migration Service (DMS)

Oracle Applications (Migrations to OCI)

EBS 12.1/12.2 on OCI: architecture patterns, shared file system design, wallet-based DB connectivity or similar Oracle Application experience, like Peoplesoft or JDE.

AI / GenAI / Data Platform

OCI Generative AI Service: Cohere and Meta model endpoints, embedding models, semantic search patterns
OCI AI Agents: agent frameworks, tool configuration, RAG pipelines, knowledge base integration
OCI Data Science: model deployment, JupyterLab environments, ML pipelines, Aqua (AI Quick Actions)
Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search: VECTOR data type, HNSW/IVF indexes, vector distance functions

Technical Skills — Preferred

Multi-cloud connectivity: OCI–Azure Interconnect, OCI–AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@AWS
Oracle WebLogic Server on OCI / WebLogic for OKE
ZFS Storage Appliance on OCI, Oracle Linux, RHEL administration at scale
Observability: OCI Monitoring, Logging, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), OCI Ops Insights
FinOps: cost analysis, committed use discounts, OCI resource scheduling

Preferred Qualifications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) - required within 90 days if not already held
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (1Z0-997) - strongly preferred
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Professional (1Z0-1127) - preferred
Oracle Exadata Database Machine Implementation Specialist - preferred for Exadata-focused engagements
Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Lift projects

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent field - or equivalent professional experience
10+ years total technical experience; 5+ years OCI-specific hands-on delivery

What Sets This Role Apart

You will work on OCI exclusively with ability to learn and engage with emerging technologies like multi-cloud architecture, Agentic AI and Generative AI. Centroid's clients engage us because of deep Oracle expertise, you will architect solutions that Oracle's own SCs reference, participate in Oracle partner programs, and shape how enterprise customers realize value from OCI's most advanced capabilities. If you are an OCI practitioner who wants to do the most technically demanding Oracle Cloud work available, this role is built for you.

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