Forward Deployed Cloud Architect (OCI) – Hybrid

Oracle; St. Louis (MO); 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) based near St. Louis, MO.

This hybrid role embeds with a single Intelligence Community customer to architect, deploy, secure, and operationalize cloud solutions directly in the customer environment. You will own the technical success from architecture to production deployment, working with operators, technical leaders, and mission stakeholders to deliver secure,

Qualifications

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain TS/SCI with Poly
• Hands-on cloud engineering and infrastructure experience
• Experience deploying and operating solutions inside customer environments
• Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, Ansible or similar
• Scripting with Python or Shell
• Strong communication across technical and executive audiences
• 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

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Tools

OCI

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Principal/Master Principal Cloud Architect-Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) based near St. Louis, MO.

This hybrid role embeds with a single Intelligence Community customer to architect, deploy, secure, and operationalize cloud solutions directly in the customer environment. You will own the technical success from architecture to production deployment, working with operators, technical leaders, and mission stakeholders to deliver secure,