Senior Oracle Cloud Architect

About the role

The Senior Oracle Cloud Architect will ensure production uptime and service levels are maintained and available in accordance with business requirements, including backup, recovery, refresh, performance tuning, and security. The successful candidate must have experience executing Oracle Cloud upgrade cycles and will be responsible for supporting and maintaining Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Cloud ERP environments, and related applications.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform, including ongoing integrations and configurations to ensure a stable and healthy cloud environment
• Maintain Oracle standard architecture and best practices throughout the cloud environment
• Ensure database resources are appropriately sized and develop strategies to maintain optimal platform performance
• Ensure the availability and performance of multiple database and application environments supporting large volumes of data
• Support physical infrastructure components including storage, security, networking, and related technical areas
• Plan and respond to service outages, including backup and recovery activities
• Monitor system performance and diagnose software and hardware issues through resolution
• Perform routine DBA activities including database maintenance, backups, recovery, tablespace management, upgrades, and performance monitoring
• Execute cloning activities within SaaS and OCI environments
• Support application-related issues including queries, users, embedded SQL, workflows, and concurrent requests

About you

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• 5+ years of experience as an Oracle Cloud Engineer managing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platforms
• Experience executing Oracle Cloud upgrade cycles
• Experience reducing cutover downtime through process improvements during upgrade cycles
• Strong knowledge of Oracle Cloud OCI architecture, concurrent managers, workflows, and application infrastructure
• Excellent knowledge of cloning, patching, backup and recovery of ERP applications
• Experience with ODI, FAW/ADW, performance tuning, and SQL profiling
• Hands-on experience with backup management and recovery techniques
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery plans
• Unix shell scripting experience with Oracle ODA and OVM environments