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Job Description
Job Overview:
- Seeking a seasoned Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Administrator to oversee the secure deployment, automation, and enhancement of enterprise OCI environments.
- The successful candidate should demonstrate comprehensive expertise in OCI Infrastructure, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Security, Monitoring, Governance, Automation, and Cloud Operations.
- This role demands practical experience in designing and maintaining highly available, secure, and automated cloud platforms, ensuring strict adherence to organizational standards and best practices.
Core Responsibilities:
- Manage OCI Infrastructure
- Provision, configure, and administer OCI services such as Compute, Block Volumes, Object Storage, File Storage, Load Balancers, DNS, and Networking components.
- Design and uphold OCI Landing Zones in accordance with enterprise governance and security policies.
- Oversee OCI Compartments, Resource Organization, Tagging Standards, and Cost Management strategies.
- Support High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Backup, and Business Continuity planning and implementation.
- Conduct capacity planning, optimize resource utilization, and manage the lifecycle of cloud infrastructure.
- Manage OCI Networking:
- Design and oversee Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN), Subnets, Security Lists, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Route Tables, and Gateways.
- Configure and support Site-to-Site VPN, FastConnect, DRG, and Hybrid Cloud connectivity solutions.
- Troubleshoot networking issues related to routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and connectivity.
- Implement network segmentation and enforce security controls aligned with organizational standards.
- Manage Identity and Access Management (IAM):
- Administer OCI IAM components including Users, Groups, Dynamic Groups, Compartments, and Policies.
- Implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and enforce least privilege security principles.
- Configure Identity Federation, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and integrate with enterprise identity providers.
- Perform regular access reviews and ensure compliance with security and audit policies.
- Security and Compliance:
- Deploy and maintain OCI security features such as Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault Key Management, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Bastion Services.
- Support security hardening, vulnerability remediation, encryption, certificate management, and compliance initiatives.
- Participate in security audits, risk assessments, and regulatory compliance evaluations.
- Continuously monitor and address security threats, maintaining baseline security standards.
- Monitoring and Observability:
- Configure OCI Monitoring, Alarms, Logging, Notifications, Logging Analytics, and Operations Insights.
- Develop proactive monitoring dashboards and solutions to ensure operational efficiency.
- Analyze performance metrics, recommend improvements, and support incident management including root cause analysis, trend analysis, and service availability reporting.
Technical Skills and Requirements:
- Proficiency with OCI Core Services including Compute, Storage (Object and File), Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN), Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG), FastConnect, VPN, Load Balancer, DNS, and WAF.
- Experience with Backup and Disaster Recovery strategies within OCI.
- Expertise in OCI IAM and Security features such as IAM Policies, Dynamic Groups, Federation, SSO, MFA, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault Key Management, Bastion Services, and Certificate Management.
- Strong knowledge of Monitoring and Operations tools including OCI Monitoring, Logging, Logging Analytics, Operations Insights, Alarms, and Notifications.
- Experience with automation and DevOps tools such as Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Git, Ansible, and scripting languages like Python and Shell.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and related tools.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Preferred Nice-to-Have Experience:
- Managing Oracle SaaS applications and Oracle Database Cloud Services.
Desired Skills and Technologies:
- Expertise in Enterprise Applications, specifically Oracle Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
