Role overview

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in customer-facing infrastructure or cloud architecture roles
5+ years of hands-on OCI design and implementation experience
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent field - or equivalent professional experience
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) - required within 90 days if not already held

Responsibilities

Architect end-to-end OCI solutions for customer engagements spanning landing zone design, network topology, identity, compute, storage, and database tiers
Lead Oracle Database workload migrations to OCI, including Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database (ADB), and Base Database Service
Design and execute Oracle Applications migrations (EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) to OCI
Develop and present technical architectures, reference designs, and migration runbooks for client pre-sales and delivery engagements

Key facts

Remote from: Anywhere
Full time
Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
AWS Architect
English

Hard skills

Oracle Cloud Computer Architecture Data Migration Terraform Microsoft Networking Storages Kubernetes Oracle Applications Customer Engagement Multi-Cloud Observability

About the company

Centroid Systems

IT Services & IT Consulting

For over 25 years, Centroid has provided comprehensive transformation services that span the entire enterprise. These services include digital transformation, consulting, and managed services across various cloud platforms that have helped our clients modernize, transform, and grow their businesses to the next level. As an Oracle CSP/MSP and Oracle's North American Partner of the Year for Engineered Systems, Oracle Technology, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service over the last 5+ years, our team has the expertise and commitment to ensure successful transformation journeys for our customers. At Centroid, we have the capabilities and experience to help our clients move their applications and technology to the cloud, modernize their existing workloads, or outsource the run and maintenance of their enterprise. We are committed to using our collaborative, client-focused approach, and best-of-breed delivery methods to provide measurable business value and sustainable ROI to our clients. Our relentless pursuit of providing the best solutions is a testament and clear advantage to our success and yours, which is why our first customer is still with us today. Improve, expand, and modernize your business by leveraging our expertise, methods, tools, and processes that are time-tested across numerous customer implementations and diverse industries and geographies. Our dedicated team will work with you every step of the way to ensure your success.

Company details

Company typeSME

IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting

Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Centroid is Oracle Corporation's top Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) partner in North America, delivering architecture, implementation and modernization initiatives in OCI for our customers.
Our architects work directly alongside Centroid’s and client teams to design, migrate, and modernize mission-critical workloads- Oracle Databases, EBS, PeopleSoft, and next-generation AI/Data, Agentic AI, OCI genAI Platform solutions on OCI.

This is a senior, hands-on technical role. You will serve as the primary OCI architect on client engagements: owning solution design end-to-end, guiding technical decisions, and delivering production-grade implementations. No people management responsibilities.
As OCI Architect you will be engaging with various customers in their cloud enablement initiatives. The candidate will be involved in design and execution of cloud migration strategy, automating existing cloud workloads in cloud, provide services to port existing workloads to leverage cloud benefits.
Requirements:

10+ years of experience in customer-facing infrastructure or cloud architecture roles
5+ years of hands-on OCI design and implementation experience

Location: 100% Remote
Job Type: Full Time employee, CTH, or Contract

Architect end-to-end OCI solutions for customer engagements spanning landing zone design, network topology, identity, compute, storage, and database tiers
Lead Oracle Database workload migrations to OCI, including Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database (ADB), and Base Database Service, with a focus on performance, HA, and DR
Design and execute Oracle Applications migrations (EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) to OCI, including lift-and-shift and modernization patterns
Architect and deploy AI/Data Platform (AIDP) workloads leveraging OCI GenAI Service, OCI AI Agents, OCI Data Science, and Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search
Develop and present technical architectures, reference designs, and migration runbooks for client pre-sales and delivery engagements
Build and maintain OCI landing zones using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager, aligned to Oracle's CIS Foundations Benchmark
Collaborate with Oracle technical teams (STCs, Cloud Engineers) on joint client engagements; serve as the technical point of escalation for Centroid
Define standards, reusable patterns, and architectural guardrails for Centroid's OCI delivery practice

Skills Preferred:
OCI Core Services

Compute: VM/BM shapes, Flex shapes, instances, autoscaling, instance configurations
Networking: VCN design, FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN, DRG v2, Network Firewall, load balancers (L4/L7), DNS, Private DNS Resolver
Storage: Block Volume, File Storage (FSS), Object Storage (lifecycle, replication, versioning), Local NVMe
IAM: compartment hierarchy, policies, dynamic groups, federated identity (SAML/SCIM), OCI Vault, Bastion Service
Kubernetes: OKE cluster provisioning, node pool management, cluster networking (flannel/NPN), OCI Container Registry (OCIR)

Oracle Database & Exadata

Autonomous Database (ADB-S, ADB-D), Base Database Service, Exadata Cloud Service, Exadata Cloud@Customer
Data Guard (Maximum Availability, Maximum Performance), GoldenGate for live migration and zero-downtime cutovers
Oracle Database 23ai: JSON Relational Duality, True Cache, AI Vector Search, Select AI
Database migration tools: MV2ADB, Data Pump, ZDLRA, Database Migration Service (DMS)

Oracle Applications (Migrations to OCI)

EBS 12.1/12.2 on OCI: architecture patterns, shared file system design, wallet-based DB connectivity or similar Oracle Application experience, like Peoplesoft or JDE.

AI / GenAI / Data Platform

OCI Generative AI Service: Cohere and Meta model endpoints, embedding models, semantic search patterns
OCI AI Agents: agent frameworks, tool configuration, RAG pipelines, knowledge base integration
OCI Data Science: model deployment, JupyterLab environments, ML pipelines, Aqua (AI Quick Actions)
Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search: VECTOR data type, HNSW/IVF indexes, vector distance functions

Technical Skills — Preferred

Multi-cloud connectivity: OCI–Azure Interconnect, OCI–AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@AWS
Oracle WebLogic Server on OCI / WebLogic for OKE
ZFS Storage Appliance on OCI, Oracle Linux, RHEL administration at scale
Observability: OCI Monitoring, Logging, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), OCI Ops Insights
FinOps: cost analysis, committed use discounts, OCI resource scheduling

Preferred Qualifications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) - required within 90 days if not already held
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional (1Z0-997) - strongly preferred
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Professional (1Z0-1127) - preferred
Oracle Exadata Database Machine Implementation Specialist - preferred for Exadata-focused engagements
Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Lift projects

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent field - or equivalent professional experience
10+ years total technical experience; 5+ years OCI-specific hands-on delivery

What Sets This Role Apart
You will work on OCI exclusively with ability to learn and engage with emerging technologies like multi-cloud architecture, Agentic AI and Generative AI. Centroid's clients engage us because of deep Oracle expertise, you will architect solutions that Oracle's own SCs reference, participate in Oracle partner programs, and shape how enterprise customers realize value from OCI's most advanced capabilities. If you are an OCI practitioner who wants to do the most technically demanding Oracle Cloud work available, this role is built for you.