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As a Cloud Adoption Engineer, you will work directly with customers to assess readiness, identify technical dependencies, design foundational architectures, and validate that environments are ready for adoption.\nYou will combine hands-on engineering, architectural judgment, and customer collaboration to turn complex requirements into practical designs, reusable infrastructure code, actionable implementation guidance, and clear operational ownership.\nMust possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly\n\nThis is a HYBRID position that involves a combination of remote, in-office work and meetings at the client site.Candidates must be based in the greater Washington DC area.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nAssess Customer Readiness\nEngage customer stakeholders to understand mission objectives, business drivers, technical environments, and adoption priorities.\nLead discovery across applications, databases, infrastructure, networking, identity, security, operations, governance, and automation.\nAssess workload dependencies, migration suitability, technical constraints, and foundational requirements.\nDevelop evidence-based readiness assessments identifying gaps, risks, recommendations, accountable owners, and target dates.\nRecommend adoption sequencing and migration-readiness actions based on technical dependencies and customer priorities.\nDesign OCI Foundations\nTranslate customer requirements into secure, resilient, and implementation-ready OCI foundation architectures.\nDesign tenancy and compartment structures, landing zones, environment separation, naming, tagging, governance, and cost controls.\nDevelop network designs covering VCNs, subnets, routing, DNS, segmentation, and hybrid connectivity.\nGuide identity federation, access policies, least privilege, multifactor authentication, and emergency access arrangements.\nDefine logging, monitoring, security telemetry, alert routing, and integration with customer security operations.\nDocument architecture decisions, alternatives, tradeoffs, dependencies, and exceptions.\nBuild Infrastructure-as-Code and Automation\nDevelop, deploy, and maintain OCI foundation components using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager.\nCreate reusable Terraform modules and manage state, resource dependencies, and environment-specific configurations.\nDevelop Python scripts to integrate APIs, configure cloud resources, validate deployments, and automate repeatable tasks.\nManage infrastructure and automation code in Git-based repositories using branching, pull requests, and peer review.\nApply secure practices for credentials, secrets, access permissions, and deployment execution.\nTroubleshoot provisioning failures, configuration errors, permissions, and infrastructure dependencies.\nDocument deployment procedures and enable customer and delivery teams to maintain and extend the automation.\nEnable Implementation\nTranslate architecture designs into actionable implementation tasks with sequencing, ownership, and acceptance criteria.\nConduct technical working sessions, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises to help teams implement agreed designs.\nCollaborate with professional services, delivery partners, and customer engineers to resolve foundational implementation blockers.\nGuide deployment practices that support consistency, repeatability, and operational sustainability.\nValidate Readiness and Transfer Ownership\nReview deployed foundations against agreed architecture and operational readiness criteria.\nValidate connectivity, identity, security controls, logging, monitoring, and automation through documented evidence.\nTrack unresolved gaps and exceptions, ensuring risks are addressed or formally accepted by accountable owners.\nPrepare operational handoff packages covering architecture, infrastructure code, deployment procedures, runbooks, support paths, and outstanding actions.\nTransfer knowledge to receiving teams and confirm their acceptance of operational ownership.\nImprove Repeatable Adoption Practices\nUse and improve shared discovery workbooks, readiness assessments, design templates, architecture decision records, and handoff checklists.\nApply existing Oracle documentation, reference architectures, training, and labs to customer needs.\nContribute reusable infrastructure modules, automation scripts, engineering patterns, and lessons learned.\nMaintain broad capability across cloud adoption foundations while developing deeper expertise in networking, identity, security operations, or Infrastructure-as-Code.\nCommunicate progress, risks, recommendations, and decisions clearly to customer and Oracle stakeholders.\nHow You’ll Work\nYou will own the quality and completion of assigned Cloud Adoption Engineering deliverables, working with the Senior Manager of Cloud Adoption Engineering and relevant technical specialists.\nYour focus will be cloud foundation readiness. You will coordinate application implementation, migration execution, and ongoing production operations with the teams responsible for those activities.\nRequired Qualifications\nMust possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly\nFive or more years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, architecture, or technical delivery.\nHands-on experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, OR Google Cloud Platform.\nExperience designing, implementing, or assessing enterprise cloud foundations.\nStrong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, compute, storage, and observability.\nExperience assessing customer environments, workload dependencies, and migration requirements.\nExperience developing, deploying, and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and environment-specific configurations.\nExperience using Python, with the ability to develop scripts that configure cloud resources, integrate APIs, validate deployments, and automate operational tasks.\nExperience managing infrastructure code in Git-based repositories, including branching, pull requests, peer review, and version control.\nExperience troubleshooting infrastructure deployments and automation, including configuration errors, resource dependencies, permissions, and failed provisioning.\nAbility to translate requirements into architecture designs, implementation guidance, and readiness recommendations.\nStrong customer discovery, technical facilitation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.\nUnderstanding of federal cloud security and compliance requirements and their implications for architecture and operational readiness.\nAbility to manage assigned technical work, communicate risks, and coordinate across customer and delivery teams.\nMust be a U.S. citizen.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting U.S. Federal Government customers.\nOCI expertise across tenancy design, landing zones, networking, identity federation, and security operations integration.\nExperience with OCI Resource Manager, OCI CLI, and OCI SDKs.\nExperience integrating infrastructure deployments with CI/CD pipelines and automated validation.\nFamiliarity with Shell scripting, Ansible, or other configuration management and automation tools.\nExperience with Oracle applications, databases, middleware, or VMware environments.\nFamiliarity with FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN, enterprise identity providers, and SIEM/SOC integration.\nKnowledge of cloud governance, cost accountability, resilience, and disaster recovery.\nRelevant cloud architecture, networking, security, or automation certifications.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nCustomers understand their adoption requirements, dependencies, risks, and next steps. Foundation designs are actionable, infrastructure deployments are repeatable, readiness recommendations are supported by evidence, and operational responsibilities are clearly accepted.\nYour work helps customers move forward with greater confidence, fewer foundational blockers, and a sustainable path to OCI adoption.\nJoin Oracle and help build the foundations for successful federal cloud adoption.\n#LI-PA4\n Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $118,700 to $194,400 per annum. May be eligible for equity. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 70/30.\nOracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nAs part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. 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