About Tezo
Tezo is an AI-first digital engineering and cloud services firm delivering secure, scalable, and compliance-ready platforms for enterprises operating in highly regulated and mission-critical environments. We specialize in cloud modernization, event-driven architectures, and security-by-design delivery, enabling our clients to innovate without compromising resilience or compliance.
Role Overview
Tezo is seeking a Senior Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect to design, govern, and secure enterprise-scale OCI platforms for critical infrastructure environments. The role requires deep expertise in OCI architecture, event-driven systems, cloud security, and regulatory compliance, with direct alignment to NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), NIST SP 800-53, and NERC-CIP standards.
The architect will work closely OT/IT security teams, and compliance stakeholders to ensure the cloud platform is secure, auditable, resilient, and regulator ready.
Key Responsibilities
OCI Architecture & Integration
- Design and govern the end-to-end OCI architecture, including tenancy strategy, compartments, networking, and service design.
- Establish RabbitMQ as the central messaging backbone, integrating FaaS, microservices, and polyglot data platforms.
- Define scalable, fault-tolerant architectures for API-driven and event-driven workloads.
- Ensure architecture supports high availability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.
Security Architecture & Compliance
- Architect and implement cloud security controls aligned to NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53 control families NERC-CIP (002013) requirements for BES Cyber System
Design and govern:
- OCI IAM, identity federation, and least-privilege access models
- Network segmentation, boundary protection, and secure remote access
- Secrets management, encryption, and key lifecycle management Configuration baselines, drift detection, and auditability
Monitoring, Logging & Incident Readiness
- Design centralized logging, monitoring, and telemetry across OCI services.
Ensure architecture support:
- Asset identification and classification
- Continuous security monitoring
- Incident detection, response, and forensic readiness
- Align observability design with NIST 800-53 AU, SI, IR, and CM controls.
Governance & Regulatory Enablement:
- Collaborate with compliance, risk, and OT/IT security teams to embed NERC-CIP evidence generation into cloud workflows.
- Support regulatory audits, assessments, and compliance reporting.
- Translate regulatory requirements into practical cloud architecture guardrails.
Client & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Act as the OCI architecture authority for Tezo-led programs.
- Provide architectural leadership across delivery teams and client stakeholders.
- Mentor engineering teams on secure, compliant OCI design patterns.
Required Experience & Expertise
- 10-15 years of overall IT experience with 5+ years in OCI architecture
- Proven experience designing event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ.
- Strong expertise in OCI Networking, IAM, Vault, Logging, Monitoring, and Security.
- Hands-on experience implementing NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, and NERC-CIP.
- Experience delivering solutions for regulated or critical infrastructure environments
Why Tezo
- Deliver secure-by-design cloud platforms for critical infrastructure
- Work at the intersection of cloud, security, and compliance.
- Partner with global technology leaders and regulators Influence architecture decisions with real-world operational impact
