AI Platform Engineer (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) (On-site)

DXC Technology Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

DXC Technology Inc. in Arlington, VA is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and secure AI-enabled OCI environments for enterprise workloads. You will work with OCI IAM, VCNs, NSGs, and containerized apps using Docker and Kubernetes.

The role emphasizes DevSecOps, IaC with Terraform, CI/CD, and enforcing least-privilege access across APIs, services, and data sources, while collaborating with cybersecurity teams to meet Federal and DoD requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud security, or related experience.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) including networking, IAM, security, and cloud-native services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity management, least-privilege access, and encryption.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, source control, vulnerability scanning, and security-focused DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, secure, and maintain AI envs within OCI.
• Adapt containerized apps for secured OCI environments.
• Design secure OCI networking with VCNs, private subnets, NSGs, and private endpoints.
• Implement IAM, authentication, authorization, and enterprise identity-management capabilities.
• Collaborate with developers to meet Federal/DoD security requirements.
• Ensure secure service-to-service communication among web apps, AI services, and databases.
• Deploy and support containers using Docker/Kubernetes/OKE/OCIR.
• Manage access to AI tools, LLMs, APIs, and enterprise services.
• Apply least-privilege, encryption, secrets management, and certificate management.
• Develop IaC using Terraform; integrate with CI/CD and security tooling.
• Configure logging, monitoring, dashboards; work with cybersecurity teams on controls.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevSecOps

OCI

IAM

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes/OKE

Terraform

OCIR / OCI services

Job description

Job Description

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private, and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new performance levels, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at DXC.com.

Clearance: Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret Security Clearance.

Work Environment: on-site, Cristal City, Arlington, VA.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, secure, and maintain AI application environments within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Adapt existing containerized applications and supporting services for deployment within secured and hardened OCI environments.
• Design and implement secure OCI networking including Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs), private subnets, routing, Network Security Groups (NSGs), private endpoints, DNS, and connectivity to enterprise services and data sources.
• Implement and maintain identity, authentication, and authorization capabilities using OCI IAM and approved enterprise identity-management technologies.
• Work with application developers to modify authentication, authorization, session management, service identities, and application configuration as required to meet Federal and DoD security requirements.
• Design secure service-to-service communication between web applications, AI services, large language models, APIs, databases, integration services, and other enterprise resources.
• Deploy and support containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes/Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), OCI Container Registry (OCIR), or comparable container technologies.
• Configure and secure AI application access to approved LLM services, APIs, enterprise applications, databases, and other supporting services.
• Implement secure patterns for AI tool and data integrations, including controlled access to enterprise services and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based connections where applicable.
• Apply least-privilege access, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, certificate management, and other security controls across AI application environments.
• Configure and manage OCI Vault, keys, certificates, secrets, service credentials, and other sensitive application configuration.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or comparable technologies to create repeatable, controlled, and auditable cloud environments.
• Integrate platform deployment with source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, security scanning, artifact management, configuration management, and release processes.
• Configure application and infrastructure logging, monitoring, audit trails, metrics, alerts, and operational dashboards.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement security controls, hardening requirements, vulnerability remediation, access restrictions, audit requirements, and other compliance measures.
• Troubleshoot issues across application configuration, OCI networking, IAM, containers, certificates, APIs, service connectivity, authentication, authorization, and cloud infrastructure.
• Participate in application and architecture reviews to identify security, deployment, networking, authentication, and integration changes needed for successful cloud implementation.
• Develop reusable platform standards, security patterns, Terraform modules, deployment templates, technical documentation, and operational procedures.
• Participate in Agile/SAFe activities including PI Planning, backlog refinement, technical reviews, demonstrations, testing, release readiness, and production support.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance required.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of hands‑on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud security, application infrastructure, or related engineering experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including networking, compute, IAM, storage, security, logging, monitoring, and cloud-native application services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking including VCNs/VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, security groups, firewalls, private endpoints, service connectivity, and hybrid connectivity.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management, authentication, authorization, least‑privilege access, service identities, secrets management, certificates, and encryption.
• Experience deploying and supporting containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes/OKE or comparable technologies.
• Experience working with web application architectures and understanding how application authentication, authorization, APIs, services, and infrastructure interact.
• Experience modifying application configuration, deployment architecture, or supporting code to meet cloud security, networking, identity, or operational requirements.
• Experience using Terraform or another Infrastructure as Code technology to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with CI/CD, source control, automated builds, vulnerability scanning, logging, monitoring, and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, cloud, container, networking, IAM, and integration layers.

Desired Skills

• Experience deploying or securing artificial intelligence, generative AI, machine learning, or data-intensive applications in OCI or another enterprise cloud environment.
• Experience with OCI Generative AI, OCI Generative AI Agents, OCI Data Science, or related Oracle AI services.
• Experience with OCI IAM policies, dynamic groups, resource principals, identity domains, OAuth/OIDC, API authentication, and service-to-service authorization.
• Experience with OCI Vault, Certificates, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Logging, Monitoring, private endpoints, and related OCI security services.
• Experience with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), OCI Container Registry (OCIR), OCI Functions, and API Gateway.
• Experience integrating containerized applications with large language models, APIs, databases, enterprise services, or AI tool frameworks.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agent tool integration, or comparable approaches for securely connecting AI applications to enterprise systems and data sources.
• Experience securing web applications that require changes to commercial or enterprise authentication and authorization patterns to operate within hardened environments.
• Knowledge of AI‑specific security concerns including prompt injection, excessive permissions, sensitive‑data exposure, insecure tool access, and service‑to‑service authorization.
• Working knowledge of Python, Bash, PowerShell, OCI CLI, OCI SDKs, or comparable scripting and automation technologies.
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments and using Azure DevOps (ADO) or a similar lifecycle‑management tool.
• Experience supporting secured Federal or DoD enterprise systems is preferred.
• OCI Architect, OCI Security, Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud security, or related certification is a plus.

Additional Information

Work Environment: On‑site as required by the contract.

Compensation at DXC is influenced by an array of factors, including but not limited to the experience, job‑related knowledge, skills, competencies, as well as contract‑specific affordability and organizational requirements. A reasonable estimate of the current compensation range for this position is $84,400 - $156,800. Full‑time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program.

DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage, employee wellness, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off.

At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in‑person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances.

We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

If you are an applicant from the United States, Guam, or Puerto Rico DXC Technology Company (DXC) is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner delivering software, services, and solutions to global enterprises and public sector organizations — helping them harness AI to drive outcomes at a time of exponential change with speed. With deep expertise in Managed Infrastructure Services, Application Modernization, and Industry‑Specific Software Solutions, DXC modernizes, secures, and operates some of the world's most complex technology estates. Learn more on dxc.com.