Role: OCI Adminstrator
Experience: 7+ Years
location:Bangalore
Please find the below JD for Senior OCI Administrator / L3 Cloud Engineer role.
We are seeking an experienced L3 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Engineer to provide expert-level administration, architecture support, automation, troubleshooting, and operational ownership for enterprise OCI environments. The role will act as the escalation point for complex cloud, network, security, Linux, storage, database-platform, performance, and disaster-recovery issues.
- Serve as the L3 escalation point for OCI production incidents, critical service degradation, complex network issues, and root-cause analysis.
- Design, implement, and support secure, highly available, scalable OCI architectures.
- Administer OCI tenancy structure, compartments, IAM policies, dynamic groups, federation, tagging, quotas, budgets, and governance controls.
- Design and manage OCI networking: VCNs, subnets, NSGs, security lists, route tables, DRGs, LPGs, NAT/Service/Internet Gateways, VPN, FastConnect, private endpoints, DNS, and load balancers.
- Manage OCI Compute, instance pools, autoscaling, Block Volumes, Object Storage, File Storage, backups, replication, and lifecycle policies.
- Build and maintain disaster recovery, backup, replication, failover, and recovery-validation procedures for business-critical systems.
- Lead OCI security implementation using IAM least privilege, OCI Vault, encryption, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vulnerability Scanning, Bastion, WAF, audit logging, and Security Advisor recommendations.
- Design and support Oracle Database services on OCI, including Base Database Service, Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database, RMAN, Data Guard, and backup/recovery integration.
- Diagnose complex infrastructure issues across cloud, Linux, network, storage, middleware, application, and database layers.
- Perform Linux performance troubleshooting, OS hardening, patching, kernel/resource analysis, and capacity planning.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automate operational tasks using OCI CLI, REST APIs, Bash, Python, and Ansible.
- Review OCI architecture for cost optimization, resilience, security compliance, and performance efficiency.
- Create and maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, SOPs, DR plans, implementation plans, and RCA reports.
- Lead technical reviews, mentor L1/L2 cloud engineers, and establish operational standards.
- Collaborate with security, networking, database, application, and vendor teams on cloud migrations and production changes.
- Participate in on-call support for critical production systems and lead major-incident technical resolution.
- 7+ years of infrastructure, Linux, cloud, database-platform, or systems engineering experience.
- 4+ years of hands-on OCI administration and engineering experience in production environments.
- Strong expertise in OCI IAM, Networking, Compute, Storage, Load Balancing, Monitoring, Logging, and security services.
- Advanced OCI network troubleshooting experience, including DRG routing, VPN/FastConnect, private connectivity, DNS, firewall rules, and traffic-flow analysis.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills in Oracle Linux, RHEL, or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform-based OCI provisioning and Infrastructure as Code standards.
- Strong scripting/automation skills using Bash, Python, Ansible, OCI CLI, or OCI APIs.
- Experience with OCI monitoring, alarms, logging, Logging Analytics, notifications, dashboards, and incident diagnostics.
- Experience supporting Oracle databases on OCI, including RMAN, Data Guard, ASM, RAC, Exadata, and database backup/recovery, is highly preferred.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, RTO/RPO planning, and failover testing.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, identity management, PKI/certificates, secrets management, encryption, and auditing.
- Experience with change management, incident management, problem management, and RCA within ITIL-based operations.
- OCI Architect Professional certification
- OCI Architect Associate certification
- OCI DevOps Professional certification
- OCI Security Professional certification
- Oracle Database Administration certification
- RHCE/RHCSA or Oracle Linux certification
- Terraform Associate certification
- Kubernetes, Docker, or DevOps experience is an advantage.
- Tenancy audit and cost optimization, IDCS and O&M(extra)
- Expert-level troubleshooting and ownership of production environments
- Strong architecture and design capability
- Ability to lead major incidents and provide clear technical direction
- Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills
- Security, reliability, and automation-first mindset
- Ability to mentor L1/L2 engineers and improve operational maturity
Pay: ₹20,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person
