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Role Purpose\nThe 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.\n2. Key Responsibilities\nProvision and configure OCI resources (Compute, Block/Object/FSS Storage, VCN, Load Balancer, DBCS, ADB) following approved designs and landing-zone patterns.\nConfigure networking (VCN, subnets, route tables, security lists/NSGs, gateways, FastConnect/IPSec VPN, DNS) and apply standard tagging, naming and cost-allocation conventions.\nSupport deployments and releases across environments using CI/CD pipelines (OCI DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).\nAuthor 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.\nMonitor platform health and respond to alerts and incidents within SLAs using OCI Monitoring, OCI Logging, APM and enterprise tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace).\nExecute routine operations - patching, backups, capacity checks, certificate renewals and drift remediation; participate in on-call and change windows.\nApply security controls (IAM policies, MFA, OCI Vault/KMS, encryption, segmentation, Bastion) and validate guardrails using Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vulnerability Scanning and Data Safe.\nExecute access management (user lifecycle, role assignment, service accounts, periodic reviews) and support audit / compliance evidence gathering.\nAssist 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).\nContribute to cost optimization (right-sizing, scheduling, unused-resource cleanup) and maintain runbooks, configuration records and operational documentation.\n3. Qualifications, Experience & Certifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n3 - 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.\nRequired (at least one OCI Associate certification): OCI Foundations Associate (1Z0-1085) plus OCI Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) or OCI Operations Associate (1Z0-1067).\nPreferred: 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).\n4. 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