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OCI Architect

Centroid Systems, Inc.

Troy, MI(remote)

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JOB TYPE
Full-time
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Autoscaling, Benchmarking, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Customer Relations, DNS (Domain Name System), Data Modeling, Data Science, Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG), Electrical Engineering, Emerging Technology, Firewalls, Identity Federation, Information Technology & Information Systems, J D Edwards, JSON, Knowledge Base, Knowledge Management, Linux Administration, Load Balancing, Microsoft Windows Azure, Migration Strategy, Network Design, Network Topology, Oracle, Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle OCI (Oracle Call Interface), Oracle WebLogic Server, People Management, Peoplesoft, Performance Analysis, Pre-Sales, Pumps, Red Hat Linux Operating System, Replication and Remote Mirroring, Resource Management, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Semantic Search, Software Engineering, Standards Development, Technical Delivery, Technical Presentation, VPN (Virtual Private Network), Virtual Machine (VM)
LOCATION
Troy, MI
POSTED
Today
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.



 

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