Cloud Solutions Architect

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building a next generation Infrastructure-as-a-Service that supports the most demanding mission-critical customer requirements, operating at cloud scale to provide a secure, distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.

This is your opportunity to be a core part of the team that defines and delivers exciting new capabilities on OCI. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team is looking for Solutions Architects (SAs) possessing deep technical skills in systems architecture and cloud computing. The ideal candidates will have excellent customer-facing skills and a passion for educating, training, designing and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customer solutions.

In this role you will enable OCI customers to easily on-board onto OCI IaaS and PaaS offerings.  As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will also work closely with several OCI product teams to share customer feedback, help refine product evolution and user experience.

As a Solutions Architect on the Customer On-boarding Team you will drive customer success in moving to OCI.  You will collaborate across OCI and Oracle product and service teams to expand your knowledge and impact while working in a highly visible and impactful team.  This role will have the opportunity to help shape the next generation of cloud computing and influence the adoption and usage patterns among enterprise and web-scale customers.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in deeply technical architectural discussions with customers, partners and Oracle field personnel to ensure customer on-boarding plans will result in successful customer deployments in the OCI.

• Represent OCI through deep knowledge of multiple IaaS, PaaS and Oracle application offerings.

• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the field and internal teams.

• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be OCI cloud advocates and identify new opportunities for OCI service adoption.

• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated experience in architecting, deploying and management of solutions. Past experience working directly in customer implementations is highly desirable.

• IaaS

• Possess 10 years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or infrastructure industries and demonstrate an intermediate understanding of applications, server technology, networking and security.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills. Past experience writing and publishing technical white papers.

• The successful candidate will have spent at least 5 years of their career in customer facing roles with a proven record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations and in interactions with partner and customers.

• Mid-level systems administration experience on either *nix or Windows.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Business Intelligence, Analytics, SOA/Integration experience

• Experience migrating or transforming customer solutions to the cloud.

• Familiarity with common enterprise solutions

• Experience with other cloud platform including AWS, Azure or Google Compute Platform is a plus.

• Experience with Infrastructure Automated Deployment models preferably leveraging CI/CD supported by DevOps teams

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.  OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. 

 We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure.  At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.