OCI Principal Cloud Architect, VMware and Data Center Migrations
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 26, 2026. Oracle scores A on the Alion truth index.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect to help customers migrate VMware estates to OCI and plan broader data center migrations and exits. This customer-facing role partners with sales, engineering, product teams and delivery partners to design, demonstrate and deploy architectures that address customer business needs and accelerate OCI adoption.
Customers need practical migration paths that account for application dependencies, operational requirements and business timelines. You will help them evaluate Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) and other OCI services, preserve existing VMware operating practices where appropriate, and identify opportunities to modernize applications and infrastructure as part of the migration or over time.
You will own the technical architecture and validation activities for assigned engagements, working with customers from discovery and assessment through proof of concept, deployment planning and adoption. You will translate current-state assessments into future-state architectures and a feasible migration plan for the wider estate.
What You Will DoAssess current-state architecture. Document customer infrastructure, including VMware and other virtualization platforms, application dependencies, capacity, security and operational requirements. Identify migration constraints, risks and success criteria with customer architects and infrastructure teams.
Define future-state architecture. Develop target architectures using OCVS and other OCI services, and identify the gaps and transition steps from the current state. Evaluate workload placement and modernization options based on application suitability, cost, performance and operational needs.
Support data center migrations and exits. Build phased migration approaches that address workloads beyond VMware, shared services, connectivity and dependencies. Collaborate on migration waves, cutover, rollback and validation plans that support consolidation and full data center exits.
Validate the solution. Create demonstrations, prototypes and proofs of concept to test architecture assumptions and migration approaches. Use hands-on configuration, scripting and automation to resolve technical questions and document results.
Guide implementation and adoption. Provide technical guidance through deployment planning and execution, coordinating with customers and delivery partners. Help resolve architecture issues and support operational readiness, knowledge transfer and OCI consumption.
Contribute reusable expertise. Create reference architectures, migration guidance and technical assets. Share lessons with peers and provide customer feedback to product and engineering teams to improve solutions and address gaps.
What We Are Looking ForWe are looking for an experienced cloud architect with strong VMware and enterprise infrastructure knowledge, practical migration experience, and the ability to turn customer requirements into designs that can be implemented and validated.
Experience documenting current-state architectures, defining future-state enterprise infrastructure or cloud architectures, and developing migration roadmaps that connect them.
Experience planning and executing large-scale on-premises-to-cloud migrations, including full data center exits, using a mix of VMware and cloud-native solutions.
Strong knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere and vCenter, with familiarity across VMware networking, storage, availability and migration tooling.
Experience with one or more alternative virtualization or container platforms, such as KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes, is valuable, including evaluating workload portability and migration tradeoffs.
Ability to design across compute, storage, networking, identity and security, including connectivity between on-premises environments and cloud services.
Experience assessing application dependencies, planning migration waves and addressing business continuity, disaster recovery and operational readiness.
Ability to compare migration and modernization options, including retaining VMware environments, rehosting workloads and adopting managed or cloud-native services where appropriate.
Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, scripting or automation, and the ability to build demonstrations and proofs of concept.
Ability to explain architecture tradeoffs, migration risks and cost considerations to technical and business stakeholders, and to work effectively across sales, engineering and delivery teams.
Experience with OCI and OCVS is particularly relevant. Familiarity with VMware HCX, NSX, vSAN, Terraform, hybrid cloud networking, and migrations involving databases or enterprise applications is valuable. Experience supporting data center consolidation or exits and application modernization is also beneficial.
The Person We Are Looking ForYou start with the customer’s business goals and work through the technical details needed to achieve them. You can independently drive architecture work for assigned engagements, recognize when specialist input is needed, and collaborate across teams to resolve issues. You build customer confidence through sound technical judgment, clear communication and hands-on validation.
You are comfortable balancing migration speed, cost and operational continuity with opportunities for modernization. You document decisions and share what you learn so others can apply successful approaches.
SuccessSuccess is measured by customer progress and adoption:
Customer opportunities advanced through documented current-state assessments, agreed future-state architectures and successful technical validation.
VMware and other enterprise workloads deployed on OCI, contributing to new and expanded OCI consumption.
Migration plans and validated solutions that help customers meet agreed data center consolidation or exit milestones.
Customer objectives for cost, performance, resilience, security and operational readiness addressed through appropriate designs.
Reusable technical assets and engagement lessons that help the team deliver consistently.
Customer opportunities advanced through documented current-state assessments, agreed future-state architectures and successful technical validation.
VMware and other enterprise workloads deployed on OCI, contributing to new and expanded OCI consumption.
Migration plans and validated solutions that help customers meet agreed data center consolidation or exit milestones.
Customer objectives for cost, performance, resilience, security and operational readiness addressed through appropriate designs.
Reusable technical assets and engagement lessons that help the team deliver consistently.
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.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: 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.
Oracle 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.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As 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. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.