OCI Cloud Engineer for Federal Systems (Hybrid)

Improvix Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Improvix Technologies in Washington, DC is seeking an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Engineer to design, implement, and manage secure cloud solutions for the U.S. Department of State, with a focus on compliance and reliability.

This onsite hybrid role requires an active Secret clearance with Top Secret eligibility and a strong background in OCI services, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), and collaboration across security, development, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance with Top Secret eligibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 5+ years as a Cloud Engineer; at least 2 years in OCI.
• Strong knowledge of OCI compute, storage, IAM, networking, and database services.
• Proficient IaC: Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with cloud security, compliance, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with Oracle container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and Docker.
• OCI Architect certification and multi-cloud experience are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage OCI services, including compute, networking, storage, and database solutions.
• Configure and maintain VCNs, subnets, gateways, and load balancers for mission-critical apps.
• Implement cloud security per federal frameworks (NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP).
• Develop and maintain IaC scripts using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Monitor performance, optimize cost, and ensure high availability in OCI.
• Troubleshoot OCI issues and provide escalation support as needed.
• Collaborate with security, development, and operations on migrations and modernization.
• Maintain detailed documentation of architectures and configurations.

Skills

Clearance awareness

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Federal compliance knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

OCI

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

OKE

Job description

Improvix Technologies in Washington, DC is seeking an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Engineer to design, implement, and manage secure cloud solutions for the U.S. Department of State, with a focus on compliance and reliability.

This onsite hybrid role requires an active Secret clearance with Top Secret eligibility and a strong background in OCI services, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), and collaboration across security, development, and operations teams.