Principal OCI Cloud Automation & Orchestration Engineer (DevOps)

Oracle Customer Success Services brings a One Oracle approach to helping customers achieve successful business outcomes through a broad portfolio of services and solutions delivered by certified and experienced professionals.

The organization supports customers throughout their cloud journey by combining customer-centric delivery, integrated support services, and close collaboration with Oracle Development. The team focuses on accelerating cloud adoption, reducing implementation risk, improving operational resilience, and enabling customers to realize value from Oracle technologies.

Within this organization, the cloud migration and engineering team supports large-scale healthcare transformation programs by designing secure, scalable, automated, and repeatable solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated solutions for OCI tenancy provisioning, customer onboarding, and environment standardization.
• Develop reusable Infrastructure-as-Code modules using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager to provision networking, compute, storage, databases, load balancers, Kubernetes services, and related OCI resources.
• Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure and application deployments using OCI DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, or comparable platforms.
• Develop orchestration workflows that automate environment provisioning, application deployment, configuration management, migration execution, validation, cutover, and rollback activities.
• Implement configuration management solutions using Ansible to maintain consistency, security, and reliability across multiple cloud environments.
• Automate cloud governance, security controls, compliance validation, and policy enforcement in alignment with enterprise and healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Enable monitoring, logging, incident response, operational automation, and self-healing capabilities using OCI observability and management services.
• Create reusable automation frameworks, templates, technical documentation, and operational runbooks while promoting automation standards and best practices across the program.

Qualifications & Skills

Mandatory Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience in cloud automation, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or a comparable enterprise cloud platform.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale cloud migration, modernization, or transformation programs.

Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with OCI services, including IAM, Networking, Compute, Storage, Load Balancer, Resource Manager, and OCI DevOps.
• Advanced working knowledge of Terraform, including the design and maintenance of reusable Infrastructure-as-Code modules.
• Experience using OCI Resource Manager for infrastructure provisioning and automation.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash or Shell scripting for cloud automation and operational workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible for configuration management and environment standardization.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, OCI DevOps, GitLab, or similar tools.
• Understanding of cloud security, governance, identity management, policy enforcement, and compliance automation.
• Experience supporting deployment validation, migration cutover, rollback, and post-migration operational activities.

Core Competencies

• Strong automation-first mindset with a focus on repeatability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed engineering, development, operations, security, and customer teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear technical documentation and runbooks.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum delivery environments.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, large-scale migration program.

Good-to-Have Qualifications

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional certification.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Professional certification.
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification.
• Experience with healthcare applications, healthcare platforms, or healthcare cloud migration programs.
• Knowledge of HIPAA, HITRUST, and other healthcare regulatory or compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and automated application deployment on OCI.
• Familiarity with OCI observability services, logging, monitoring, event-driven automation, and self-healing architectures.

Self-Assessment Questions

Before applying, consider the following questions to assess your fit for the role:

1. Have I independently designed and implemented reusable Terraform modules for provisioning enterprise cloud infrastructure, including networking, compute, storage, load balancing, and identity components?
2. Do I have at least three years of hands-on experience working with OCI or a comparable cloud platform, including infrastructure provisioning, governance, and operational support?
3. Can I build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate both infrastructure and application deployments using tools such as OCI DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, or GitLab?
4. Have I used Python, Bash or Shell scripting, and Ansible to automate provisioning, configuration management, deployment, validation, or operational workflows?
5. Have I supported a large-scale cloud migration program involving environment readiness, deployment validation, cutover, rollback, and post-migration automation?

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