We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Chief Cloud Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions to support enterprise mission systems and business applications. You will lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud environments, leveraging your deep knowledge of Oracle products and cloud architecture best practices. This role demands technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience with Oracle-based systems in high-volume environments. If you thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven organization and enjoy solving complex data engineering challenges, we want to hear from you. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
Internal Responsibilities
Required Skills:
- The ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with a polygraph.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 12 years of relevant experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and mission systems.
- Demonstrated experience leading cloud solution architecture and translating customer requirements into production deployments.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud compute, storage, networking, and identity and access management services.
- Experience designing cloud tenancy and compartment structures, access policies, and secure deployment foundations.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, including IP addressing, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and private connectivity.
- Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, including version control and reusable deployment modules.
- Experience deploying and supporting containerized workloads using Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker.
- Experience integrating Oracle Database workloads into cloud architectures, including provisioning, connectivity, backup, recovery, and availability considerations.
- Experience designing for resilience, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Ability to monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, including network connectivity, resource utilization, and service dependencies.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable scripting tools for infrastructure automation.
- Working knowledge of cloud security principles, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, auditing, and network segmentation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across application, database, networking, security, and operations teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing architecture diagrams, technical designs, and customer presentations.
Desired Skills:
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) or other federal mission systems.
- Experience deploying solutions in government or classified cloud environments.
- Experience supporting security authorization activities, including the Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and applicable security control implementation.
- Experience developing hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures.
- Experience with Kubernetes and automated application deployment.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
- Experience planning and executing Oracle Database migrations.
- Experience with cloud governance, resource tagging, capacity planning, and cost management.
- Familiarity with geospatial, data-intensive, or AI-enabled mission workloads.
- Relevant OCI architecture, networking, security, or operations certifications.
External Responsibilities
Required Skills:
- The ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with a polygraph.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least 12 years of relevant experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and mission systems.
- Demonstrated experience leading cloud solution architecture and translating customer requirements into production deployments.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud compute, storage, networking, and identity and access management services.
- Experience designing cloud tenancy and compartment structures, access policies, and secure deployment foundations.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, including IP addressing, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and private connectivity.
- Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, including version control and reusable deployment modules.
- Experience deploying and supporting containerized workloads using Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker.
- Experience integrating Oracle Database workloads into cloud architectures, including provisioning, connectivity, backup, recovery, and availability considerations.
- Experience designing for resilience, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Ability to monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, including network connectivity, resource utilization, and service dependencies.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable scripting tools for infrastructure automation.
- Working knowledge of cloud security principles, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, auditing, and network segmentation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across application, database, networking, security, and operations teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing architecture diagrams, technical designs, and customer presentations.
Desired Skills:
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) or other federal mission systems.
- Experience deploying solutions in government or classified cloud environments.
- Experience supporting security authorization activities, including the Risk Management Framework (RMF), Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and applicable security control implementation.
- Experience developing hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures.
- Experience with Kubernetes and automated application deployment.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
- Experience planning and executing Oracle Database migrations.
- Experience with cloud governance, resource tagging, capacity planning, and cost management.
- Familiarity with geospatial, data-intensive, or AI-enabled mission workloads.
- Relevant OCI architecture, networking, security, or operations certifications.
