Forward Deployed Cloud Architect — OCI (Hybrid)

NextBigWhat; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Principal/Master Principal Cloud Architect-Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to be embedded with a single Intelligence Community customer in a hybrid role near St. Louis, MO.

You will own the technical success from architecture to production deployment, ensuring secure, scalable cloud solutions and direct mission impact. You will build and operate OCI-based environments, implement IaC, and coordinate with operators, engineers and leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting or working within the U.S. Intelligence Community.
• MUST possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly.
• Strong hands-on cloud engineering and infrastructure experience.
• Experience deploying and operating solutions inside customer environments.
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture, automation, and platform operations.
• Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Scripting and automation experience using Python, Shell, or comparable languages.
• Ability to work on-site with customers for extended engagements.
• minimum of 6+ years of cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
• Independently leads customer deployments from architecture through production.
• Executes complex implementations with minimal oversight.
• Owns delivery outcomes for assigned engagements.

Responsibilities

• Embed full-time with a dedicated Intelligence Community customer.
• Architect and deploy OCI-based solutions directly within customer environments.
• Transform complex mission requirements into scalable cloud architectures.
• Build and configure infrastructure across OCI IaaS and PaaS services.
• Design secure, resilient, production-grade environments.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks.
• Configure networking, identity, security, observability, databases, storage, and container platforms.
• Harden pilot deployments into operational production systems.
• Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization efforts.
• Partner closely with customer operators, engineers, and leadership teams.
• Drive adoption, knowledge transfer, and long-term customer success.
• Capture field learnings and influence future product and engineering direction across Oracle.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Infrastructure as Code

OCI deployment

Security & compliance

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

OCI Resource Manager

Ansible

Python

Shell

Job description

Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Principal/Master Principal Cloud Architect-Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to be embedded with a single Intelligence Community customer in a hybrid role near St. Louis, MO.

You will own the technical success from architecture to production deployment, ensuring secure, scalable cloud solutions and direct mission impact. You will build and operate OCI-based environments, implement IaC, and coordinate with operators, engineers and leadership.