Federal Cloud Adoption Engineer (OCI)

Archer; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

Archer, collaborating with Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence, seeks a Cloud Adoption Engineer to help U.S. Federal Government customers establish secure OCI environments.

You will design, implement, and validate foundations across tenancy, networking, identity, and security, delivering reusable IaC and automation while ensuring operational readiness. You will work in a hybrid setup, combining remote work with client-site engagements in the greater Washington DC area, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly.
• Five or more years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, architecture, or technical delivery.
• Hands-on experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, OR Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience designing, implementing, or assessing enterprise cloud foundations.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, compute, storage, and observability.
• Experience assessing customer environments, workload dependencies, and migration requirements.
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and environment-specific configurations.
• Experience using Python, with the ability to develop scripts that configure cloud resources, integrate APIs, validate deployments, and automate operational tasks.
• Experience managing infrastructure code in Git-based repositories, including branching, pull requests, peer review, and version control.
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure deployments and automation, including configuration errors, resource dependencies, permissions, and failed provisioning.
• Ability to translate requirements into architecture designs, implementation guidance, and readiness recommendations.
• Strong customer discovery, technical facilitation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of federal cloud security and compliance requirements and their implications for architecture and operational readiness.
• Ability to manage assigned technical work, communicate risks, and coordinate across customer and delivery teams.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

• Assess Customer Readiness – Engage customer stakeholders to understand mission objectives, business drivers, technical environments, and adoption priorities.
• Lead discovery across applications, databases, infrastructure, networking, identity, security, operations, governance, and automation.
• Assess workload dependencies, migration suitability, technical constraints, and foundational requirements.
• Develop evidence-based readiness assessments identifying gaps, risks, recommendations, accountable owners, and target dates.
• Recommend adoption sequencing and migration-readiness actions based on technical dependencies and customer priorities.
• Translate customer requirements into secure, resilient, and implementation-ready OCI foundation architectures.
• Design tenancy and compartment structures, landing zones, environment separation, naming, tagging, governance, and cost controls.
• Develop network designs covering VCNs, subnets, routing, DNS, segmentation, and hybrid connectivity.
• Guide identity federation, access policies, least privilege, multifactor authentication, and emergency access arrangements.
• Define logging, monitoring, security telemetry, alert routing, and integration with customer security operations.
• Document architecture decisions, alternatives, tradeoffs, dependencies, and exceptions.
• Develop Terraform modules and manage state across environments.
• Create reusable Terraform modules and manage environment-specific configurations.
• Develop Python scripts to integrate APIs, configure cloud resources, validate deployments, and automate tasks.
• Manage infrastructure and automation code in Git repositories with branching and PRs.
• Apply secure practices for credentials, secrets, access permissions, and deployment execution.
• Troubleshoot provisioning failures, configuration errors, permissions, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Document deployment procedures and enable customer and delivery teams to maintain and extend the automation.
• Translate architecture designs into actionable implementation tasks with sequencing, ownership, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct technical working sessions, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises to help teams implement designs.
• Collaborate with professional services, delivery partners, and customer engineers to resolve blockers.
• Guide deployment practices that support consistency, repeatability, and operational sustainability.
• Review deployed foundations against architecture and readiness criteria.
• Validate connectivity, identity, security controls, logging, monitoring, and automation with evidence.
• Track unresolved gaps and exceptions, ensuring risks are addressed or accepted.
• Prepare handoff packages covering architecture, code, procedures, and runbooks.
• Transfer knowledge to receiving teams and confirm acceptance of ownership.
• Use and improve discovery workbooks, readiness assessments, design templates, and handoff checklists.
• Contribute reusable infrastructure modules, automation scripts, and patterns.

Skills

TS/SCI with Poly

Cloud engineering

OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP

Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

Python scripting

Git version control

Security & compliance

Tools

OCI Resource Manager

OCI CLI

Terraform

Job description

Archer, collaborating with Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence, seeks a Cloud Adoption Engineer to help U.S. Federal Government customers establish secure OCI environments.

You will design, implement, and validate foundations across tenancy, networking, identity, and security, delivering reusable IaC and automation while ensuring operational readiness. You will work in a hybrid setup, combining remote work with client-site engagements in the greater Washington DC area, and collaborate with