Cloud Specialist

1. Role Purpose

The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for the day-to-day build, configuration, operation and support of cloud infrastructure services, with a primary focus on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The role applies approved architecture patterns, automation and operational standards to deliver secure, available and cost-efficient cloud environments. The cloud platform engineer works with limited supervision on routine to moderately complex tasks, supports senior engineers on larger initiatives, and contributes to migration, modernization and continuous-improvement activities. Working knowledge of at least one secondary public cloud (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) and adjacent tooling such as Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines is expected.

2. Key Responsibilities

• Provision and configure OCI resources (Compute, Block/Object/FSS Storage, VCN, Load Balancer, DBCS, ADB) following approved designs and landing-zone patterns.
• Configure networking (VCN, subnets, route tables, security lists/NSGs, gateways, FastConnect/IPSec VPN, DNS) and apply standard tagging, naming and cost-allocation conventions.
• Support deployments and releases across environments using CI/CD pipelines (OCI DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
• Author and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Terraform / OCI Resource Manager) and automation scripts (Ansible, Bash, Python) for recurring tasks - patching, certificate rotation, snapshots, environment refresh.
• Monitor platform health and respond to alerts and incidents within SLAs using OCI Monitoring, OCI Logging, APM and enterprise tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace).
• Execute routine operations - patching, backups, capacity checks, certificate renewals and drift remediation; participate in on-call and change windows.
• Apply security controls (IAM policies, MFA, OCI Vault/KMS, encryption, segmentation, Bastion) and validate guardrails using Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vulnerability Scanning and Data Safe.
• Execute access management (user lifecycle, role assignment, service accounts, periodic reviews) and support audit / compliance evidence gathering.
• Assist with workload migration (lift-and-shift, re-platform) to OCI, environment setup and hypercare; support application teams deploying onto OCI (Oracle DB, WebLogic, OKE, Functions, API Gateway).

• Contribute to cost optimization (right-sizing, scheduling, unused-resource cleanup) and maintain runbooks, configuration records and operational documentation.

  3. Qualifications, Experience & Certifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 - 6 years hands-on cloud / platform engineering experience; minimum 2 years on OCI (or strong equivalent cloud depth with demonstrable OCI exposure); production operations and change-management experience.
  • Required (at least one OCI Associate certification): OCI Foundations Associate (1Z0-1085) plus OCI Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) or OCI Operations Associate (1Z0-1067).
  • Preferred: OCI Architect Professional (1Z0-997); a second-cloud certification (AWS SAA, Azure AZ-104, GCP ACE); HashiCorp Terraform Associate; CKA; Linux certification (RHCSA / Oracle Linux).

  4. Competencies & Performance Measures

  Behavioral & Professional Competencies

  • Ownership and accountability - sees assigned work through to completion.
  • Problem solving - systematic diagnosis across infra, network and app layers.
  • Clear written and verbal communication with peers and stakeholders.
  • Collaboration with architecture, security, app and vendor teams.
  • Service mindset and respect for operational SLAs.
  • Continuous learning across cloud, automation and security.
  • Discipline - adherence to standards, documentation and change control.

  Performance Measures

  • Platform availability against SLOs on assigned services.
  • Quality and timeliness of provisioning, deployment and ops work.
  • Incident response effectiveness - MTTA / MTTR and RCA quality.
  • Adherence to security, compliance and change-management standards.
  • Contribution to automation, cost optimization and knowledge management.
  • Demonstrable skill growth in OCI and secondary cloud / tooling areas.
  • Working relationships - internal (CPE peers, Architects, Security, Networking, DBA, App teams) and external (Oracle Support, partners, vendors).