Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Title: Senior Cloud architect

Location: 2 Broadway - MTA Headquarters Hybrid

Visa: All Visa

This position requires the consultant to work 3 days onsite and 2 days remote.

A current Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) certification (Architect Professional or Architect Associate) is strongly preferred.

This role focuses on designing cloud architectures primarily for Oracle Cloud along with AWS, Azure, frameworks, governance models, and cloud standards for the organization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience partnering with business stakeholders and technical teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, multi/hybrid cloud architectures. This role may require guiding engineering teams or supplementing their skill sets. A strong foundation in on premises infrastructure is essential due to hybrid integrations and migration initiatives. The organization is also planning to expand Infrastructure as Code capabilities.

Key Skills

OCI: 6–9 years

Azure / AWS / GCP: 1–2 years each (nice to have)

Hybrid Infrastructure: 4–6 years

Cloud Networking: 4–6 years

Cloud DevOps / Automation: 4–6 years

Cloud Security: 2–3 years

Cloud FinOps: 1–2 years

Architecture Documentation (Visio or Abacus): 2–3 years

Deep expertise in cloud platforms, services, governance, frameworks, and best practices

Proficiency in OCI is mandatory. The architect will focus on developing architectures, standards, and governance models for the OCI platform. Experience across other cloud providers is a plus for multi cloud initiatives.

Extensive experience with cloud servers and environments with configuration, patching, network and VLAN configuration, backups, system monitoring and alerts.

* Cloud Platforms, Oracle Cloud (OCI), AWS, Azure, GCP

* Database Technologies: Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, Golden Gate, RMAN, Database licensing

* Product Architecture and roadmap, its assessment

* Linux or network administrator skills a plus

* Platforms: Exadata, ExaCC, ExaDB-D, Exascale, DBaaS, OEM

* Architecture: High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Multi-Cloud Architecture.

* Automation: Terraform, Ansible, API/CLI automation

* SRE & DevOps: Monitoring, Observability, SLAs/SLOs/SLIs

Additional Skills and Information: Cloud Architecture, Architecture Patterns. Proficient with AI.